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of Dr. Southard radiated widely throughout the country, and there 

 are many serious workers in widely scattered centers who owe their 

 inspiration to him. His publications witness to the great industry of 

 the man. They cover a wide field; they furnish an important body 

 of material which has been incorporated in the general body of knowl- 

 edge which pertains to the disciplines of neuropathology and of 

 psychiatry. 



In the Southard Memorial Number of the Bulletin of the Massa- 

 chusetts Department of Mental Diseases a complete bibliography of 

 his works is published, with brief comments and abstracts (pp. 30-199). 

 The earlier communications deal with the more technical aspects of 

 morbid processes, involving the central nervous system. They are 

 detailed studies of tissue reactions which do not involve the cate- 

 gories of the personality. In later communications the reactions of 

 the individual began to play a prominent role, and the question of the 

 correlation of structural damage with functional inefficiency became a 

 central problem. One of the fundamental problems of psychiatry, 

 namely, the basal conditions underlying mental deterioration, or, to 

 put it in another way, the etiology of so-called "dementia prae- 

 cox," was a subject of much careful investigation on his part. These 

 are problems of very complex nature, and in the formulation of his 

 views Dr. Southard not only brought together much interesting 

 material, but showed a lightness of touch and ingenuity of expression 

 which charmed those who read his papers. 



The position of Director of the Psychopathic Hospital brought with 

 it new responsibilities and interests which reflected themselves in his 

 investigations. He had passed from the investigation of mere tissue 

 to the study of the morbid activity of the individual, and now he was 

 brought to deal with the problems of mental health in relation to 

 community life. Work of this type necessarily brings a great variety 

 of problems, and in regard to them Dr. Southard showed his usual keen 

 insight and fertility of resources. He contributed papers on the 

 treatment of special types of disease, on hospital organization, on the 

 training of special types of workers, on the relationship of the hospital 

 to the community, on the possibility of making available to industrial 

 organizations the principles which had been worked out in the limited 

 sphere of the hospital. 



The war brought its special problems in his field, and he contributed 



