ELIOTT BISHOP, M.D.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
The request from the secretary of this society is a command when he asks
me to read a paper, otherwise I should be more profuse in my apology for
the modest effort I present to you tonight. For me to present to the
gentlemen of achievement before me any of my rare dashes into the field
of major procedures in gynecology or obstetrics would be farcical and I
was casting about for something of interest for us all to think about
together tonight when two post partum patients in the Low Maternity one
afternoon developed mental disturbances.
As we must all admire the German attitude of continually interrogating,
so we must, when something unusual occurs, say “Why” and “When?” and
then become Yankees again and say “What are we going to do about it?”
Every few years we must take stock of just such questions and it is
perhaps a reasonable duty for some of the younger and less active
members of this society like myself to make the inventory.