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Louise G. Robinovitch (1869-1954), findings
 

in progress (20240815).

What follows is a timeline for Louise G. Robinovitch appearances, in which publications are listed together with other mentions (e.g., career notices, real estate transactions). This page is adjunct to a rumination on the relationship of Robinovitch and her brother Joseph G. Robin (whose use of the word “puttering” prompted this wayward detour).

  1. early years
  2. Change of Course (1923-1937)
  3. patents (three 1932; inventor Charles Mindeleff, assignor to Louise G. Robinovitch)
  4. Obituary
  5. mentions in recent literature (histories of science, medicine, etc.)
  6. Journal of Mental Pathology (1901-1909), selected content list and analysis

A useful if less-than-thorough wikipedia page is devoted to Louise G. Rabinovitch : link
it provides good leads, some of them with links.

When (and why) did she go from Rabinovitch to Robinovitch? One guess is that she sought to hide her Jewishness; she would later claim French and Russian ancestry (see obituary), as her brother would use the name “Robin” to assert French — and hide Jewish — ancestry.

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early years

  1. 1889
    Louise G. Rabinovitch is listed as being from Odessa, Russia in the “List of Matriculates for annual session, 1888-89,” Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, Fortieth Annual Announcement, May 1889 :     link
  2. 1889
    “Causes of Coagulation”
    “Louise G. Rabinovitch in the New York Medical Journal, in reviewing the paper of Mr. W. D. Halliburton, (Proceedings of the Royal Society) thus formulates the results of the author’s experiments...”
    The Medical Institute of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 4:1 (January 1889) : 20-21
    via google books) : link
  3. 1889
    Louise G. Rabinovitch, “Physiology” (Reports on the Progress of Medicine), in
    New York Medical Journal (September 4, 1889) : 297-304
    (via google books) : link

    the first of several abstracts is for “The Quantitative and Qualitative Interchanges of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the Body, under the Influence of the Mind” by A. E. Stcherback (“Vratch,” No. 4, 1889)

  4. 1890
    Louise G. Rabinovitch, “Physiology” (Reports on the Progress of Medicine), in
    New York Medical Journal (August 2, 1890) : 134-139
    (via google books) : link
  5. 1890
    Louise G. Rabinovitch, “Physiology” (Reports on the Progress of Medicine), in
    New York Medical Journal (July 5, 1890) : 24-27
    (via google books) : link
  6. 1892
    Louise G. Rabinovitch, B. S. (Paris), M.D., late resident physician, Philadelphia Hospital; Assistant Physician, Insane Asylum, Blackwell’s Island, N.Y.
    “On The Reduction of Fever, Particularly in Typhoid. The comparative value of antipyretics and the cold-water treatment.”
    The New York Medical Journal 55:12 (March 19, 1892) : 320-322 : link
  7. 1894
    Louise G. Rabinovitch, M.D., assistant physician. May 15, 1890, Compensation $600. Previous experience, two years at city hospitals in Paris; nine months in Maternity Hospital, Philadelphia, Penn.; fifteen months as resident physician at Philadelphia Hospital, Philadelphia, Penn.
    ex Chapter 21, Special Reports — City and County Asylums. State of New York, State Commission in Lunacy, Fifth Annual Report (October 1, 1892, to September 30, 1893), (Albany, 1894) : 370 (via google books) : link
  8. 1894
    Henry Samuel Morais, The Jews of Philadelphia : Their History from the Earliest Settlements to the Present Time; A record of events and institutions, and of leading members of the Jewish community in every sphere of activity. (Philadelphia: The Levytype Company, 5654—1894) : 423 : link (google books)

    Louise G. Rabinovitch, graduated in 1889, at Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia.

  9. 1894
    “Told in a Nutshell — New York Insane Asylum Abuses.”
    The Sanitarian 296 (July 1894) : 90-91
    (via google books) : link

    transcription, entire —

    In the process of inquiry into the abuses of the insane asylums at Blackwell’s and Ward’s islands, under the “care” of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction in the city of New York, June 15th, Dr. Louise G. Rabinovitch, whose evidence has filled several columns of the newspaper reports of previous days, was asked by A. H. Mastin, Esq., counsel for the Commissioners :
          Q.   “Now tell us, doctor, in a nutshell, exactly everything you saw at Blackwell’s Island or Ward’s Island about which you wish to complain, and on what grounds your complaints are based?”
          The witness answered as follows :
          “The food is not fit to eat and the medical care, or rather the lack of medical care, is simply unpardonable. The buildings are also dangerously out of repair, the overcrowding and the lack of separate rooms for eating and sleeping is a case of neglect of the most grave character. I also want to say that the medical treatment of the patients is extremely defective. Erysipelas and tuberculosis are allowed in the same wards with patients not sufferers of those diseases. Such a state of affairs would not be tolerated even in China. Another very serious thing is the absence of a sitting room, and the fact that the patients are not allowed to breathe fresh air, owing to the windows not being raised from the bottom. The patients are also treated with unkindness and are made to walk on a stony road instead of being permitted the privilege of using the green lawn. There have been cases not infrequently of natural deaths through neglect of medical treatment and also the continued use of neglected buildings. Women are also made to do work which is not woman’s work, and there is also a great insufficiency of clothing. On Blackwell’s Island a thousand women are in ten pavilions, which are in such a dilapidated condition that the rain pours through the roof upon their beds. There was more room on Blackwell’s Island than on Ward’s Island, but the food was even worse if possible.”
          Other questions only served to elaborate the disgraceful conditions.

    —

    aside —
    Only a few years earlier — in 1887 — the “stunt girl” reporter Nellie Bly had done her exposé of the horrible conditions in the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island (wikipedia). She managed to get herself committed to that asylum for the story, that would appear in the New York World on October 9, 1887. Reforms were implemented thereafter.
          Was the ground thus somewhat prepared for Rabinovitch’s evidence, and her brother’s role in getting the story into the newspapers (and thereby kickstarting his own financial career)?

    The answer, I find, is yes indeed. See Stacy Horn, her Damnation Island : Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th Century New York (2018) : 247 : link (google preview)

    It was a reporter named Adele Porter Porre’s article about conditions at Ward’s island in the New York Herald (May 13, 1894) that had led to the hiring of Rabinovitch as an assistant physician at that all-female asylum. Stacy Horn writes :
    “Much of the information in Porre’s article had come from Dr. Louise G. Rabinovitch, who’d been hired as a result of Nellie Bly’s suggestion to the grand jury that the presence of female doctors would greatly improve matters in the all-female Asylum. Rabinovitch was brought in as an assistant physician under Emmet C. Dent, the medical superintendent. After witnessing the horrors there, Rabinovitch started secretly copying records for a book she planned to write about the abuses on Blackwell’s Island. She shared her stories and records with Porre and left her position two weeks before the article came out...

    Robin/Robinovitch are not mentioned in Charles Deitz, his ‘A Tomb for the Living’: An Analysis of Late 19th-century United States newspaper reporting on the insane asylum, which focuses on Nelly Bly.
    (dissertation, U Oregon; September 2018) : link

  10. 1896
    Louise G. Robinovitch. “On Fever and its Reduction. Bleeding in Some Cases of Meningitis.” The New York Medical Journal 63 (March 14, 1896) : 353-354
    U Michigan copy/scan (via google books) : link

    Further treatment of the subject, on comments to her paper in the New York Medical Journal (March 19,1892)

  11. 1899
    Louise G. Robinovitch. “On Morphinism.” The New York Medical Journal 69: (March 4, 1899) : 298-302 Harvard copy/scan (via google books) : link
  12. 1900 (ca)
    Louise G. Robinovitch. “Criminality and Alcoholism.” somewhere in volume 18 of The Medico-Legal Journal (1899 or 1900) : link (google books, listed only)

    appears to be :
    18 Medico-Legal J. 341 (1900-1901)
    Louise G. Robinovitch. “The Relation of Criminality in the Offspring to Alcoholism in the Parents”
    one page view at HeinOnline : link (the rest behind paywall)
     

  13. 1900-1909

    Louise G. Robinovitch edited The Journal of Mental Pathology during its entire run; I have come to think of it as her personal publication channel for “leading articles” and her own editorial essays, as well as contributions from others (roughly one-third of the total. A census of her activity in that journal is presented at the end of this page : link.

    For most of its life, its editorial office was located at 28 West 126th Street, New York (in earlier numbers, 290 Broadway).
    That is the address profiled in Christopher Gray’s “Streetscapes” article in the New York Times (February 8, 1998), listed immediately below.
    here is that house, ca June 1, 2017, at Matthew X. Kiernan’s flickr : link

    Christopher Gray. “Streetscapes / 28 West 126th Street; An 1871 Row House Co-Designed by Calvert Vaux”
    The New York Times (February 8, 1998) : link   (pay-walled)

    “In 1902 the house was purchased by Joseph G. Robin, a banker. Robin sold the house to his sister, Dr. Louise Robinovitch — reports indicated that he had changed his name. Directory and census records are not complete, but it appears that the two occupied the house....
          ...Three days later Dr. Robinovitch was indicted for perjury on her brother’s behalf. Robin was convicted of larceny and spent 10 months in prison, but the disposition of Dr. Robinovitch’s case was not reported, and the pair dropped from view after 1915, when she sold the house.”

    aside —
    Did Robin’s financial success and/or legerdemain underwrite the journal? No advertisements are seen, no sponsorships or institutional affiliations. The typography of the journal is exemplary, as handsome in its way as the design of Robin’s Driftwood Manor.
          Or, perhaps, Louise Robinovitch supported her brother earlier in his career, perhaps even subsidizing publication of his novel The Flight of Icarus (1898)? So that there was some reciprocal support and even, at the time of his financial embarrassment ca 1910, possession of assets?

  14. 1903
    Louise G. Rabinovitch, “The Woman Physician, and a Vast Field of Usefulness Unrecognized by Her,” Transactions of the Alumnae Association of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 28th Annual Meeting (1903): 72–81
    (have not seen, but frequently mentioned)

    for instance :
    Women physicians pressed enthusiastically for the chance to do asylum work, both for the clinical experience it provided and because of their increasing interest in psychiatry. Characteristically, many of them believed that women had a unique contribution to make to the care of the insane. “The field of psychiatric work calls loudly for an invasion by the woman physician,” Louise G. Rabinovitch told the alumnae association of the Philadelphia Woman’s Medical College in 1903. “I doubt whether there is any other branch of medicine that can less afford to dispense with her services. Those of you who are acquainted with the history of the insane asylums previous to the advent of the woman physician into them ... probably appreciate but too well the crying necessity for women’s more active participation in this work.”
    source
    from Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine (1985) : 155
    borrowable at archive.org : link

  15. 1906
    Louise G. Robinovitch. Sommeil Électrique ; (Inbibition des Movements volontaires et de la Sensibilité) ; par des Courants Électriques de basse tension et â Interruptions modérément fréquentes
    Épilepsie Électrique et Électrocution.
    (Nantes, 1906)
    Stanford (Lane Medical School) copy/scan (via archive.org) : link
  16. 1908
    “Use Electricity to Reinstill Life
    Experiments by Which an Animal Which Died Under Anaesthetics Was Resuscitated.
    Human Patients Next
    Dr. Louise G. Rabinovitch Pursuing Experiments in Inducing Electric Sleep as Substitute for Anaesthetics.”
    The New York Times (September 27, 1908) : link   (paywalled)
  17. 1909
    Louise G. Robinovitch. “Resuscitation by Means of Electric Currents of Subjects in a Condition of Apparent Death Caused by Chloroform, Ether, Electrocution, Drowning and other Forms of Asphyxia — Necessity of excluding the central nervous system from the circuit during the rhythmic excitations — clinical application of the method.”
    Transactions of the American Electro-Therapeutic Association; Nineteenth Annual Meeting, New York, September 28, 29 and 30, 1909 (1910) 185-207 (including plates and discussion) : link (google books)
  18. 1909
    “A Woman Who Brings the Apparently Dead to Life;
    How Victims of Many Forms of Sudden Death Are Restored by Means of Dr. Louise G. Robinovitch’s Discovery.”
    The New York Times (November 21, 1909) : link   (paywalled)
     

    change of course : now at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

  19. 1923
    Louise G. Robinovitch. “A chemical basis for the treatment of tuberculosis. A preliminary statement of research work from the chemical laboratories of the Colorado State School of Mines, Golden, Colo., issued by the School of Mines; presented at the Fifth Joint Meeting of the El Paso County Sanatorium Ass., Phipps Sanitarium, Denver. Second issue of the publication by the School of Mines, May 30, 1923.”

    aside —
    Have not seen this, but have encountered more than one reference to this “preliminary statement,” including this anstract from JAMA 81:19 () : 1639 :     link —

    “This is a preliminary statement (in English) by Louise Robinovitch of the successful removal of the waxy coating of tubercle bacilli by means of a solvent consisting of a slightly alkaline glycerol extract of steapsin or lipase, with probably insulin, and a small amount of chloroform. The work was done at the Colorado School of Mines, and the product is called ‘poor man’s radium,’ as an important adjunct of the treatment of activated oxygen which releases its negative electric charge. Experiments on guinea-pigs with these defatted bacilli confirmed the belief that the protecting waxy and fatty coating of the bacilli had been lost, and the bacilli were thus left defenseless.”

    aside —
    The expression “preliminary communication” is appended to several of Robinovitch’s papers in the Journal of Mental Pathology.

  20. 1924
    Louise G. Robinovitch and G. W. Stiles. “A chemical basis for the treatment of tuberculosis. Experiments on the action of steapsin and insulin on tubercle bacilli.” American Review of Tuberculosis 9:6 (Baltimore; August 1924) : 587-612
    link
  21. 1925
    Louise G. Robinovitch, Geo. W. Stiles, Jr., and C. F. Payne. “The Pancreas and Tuberculosis;” (From the Chemical Laboratories of the Colorado State School of Mines, Golden, Colorado)
    Endocrinology (“The Bulletin of the Association for the Study of Internal Secretions”) 9 (November-December, 1925) : 490-492

    Indiana U copy/scan (via google books) : link

    “During the years 1921-1925, while autopsying guinea pigs that had died of tuberculosis, the senior author noticed that the pancreas remained free of the diseacce [sic], macroscopically, even when the the lungs, liver and spleen were severely degenerated by the tubucerle bacilli...”

    The paper concludes with this acknowledgement :
    “Dr. Robinovitch takes great pleasure in expressing her indebtedness to President M. F. Coolbaugh, of the School of Mines, for having given her facilities at the School to continue her work. She also expresses her deep obligation to Dr. W. E. Howe for his great help in this work.”

    The short bibliography lists three articles, including the two listed immediately above (1923 and 1924)

  22. 1937
    her Wikipedia entry states that “In 1937, Rabinovitch was involved in a lawsuit to gain a patent on Woolf’s Hypozone,” referencing a newspaper article that is inaccessible to me.

    but see Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (July 27, 1937) : 697 : link (google books)
    transcribed entire below :

    Woolf’s Hypozone, Inc., v Milton M. Warner, Trade-Mark Interference No. 2,654.
          In a decision rendered June 14, 1937 (159 Ms. Dec. 922), Assistant Commissioner Frazer held that Woolf’s Hypozone, Inc., of New York, N. Y., is not entitled to register a trade-mark for germicide and disinfectant, since it does not appear that the mark in question was used by that party prior to the registration of Milton M. Warner, of Brodbecks, Pa., of the same mark and that no showing of transfer of title of the mark to the applicant from an earlier user had been established.
          In his decision the Assistant Commissioner referred to the testimony of one witness as to the transfer of title and quoted from the testimony which was to the effect that the witness had taken hold of the business of one Woolf, the earlier user, but did not know whether she bought it from Woolf or Woolf’s estate and also showing that she was only a stockholder in Woolf’s Hypozone, Inc., and did not own all of either the common stock or the preferred stock.
          He then said:
    “Just how this transaction is supposed to have vested title to the trade-mark in Woolf’s Hypozone, Inc., is not explained, nor am I able to comprehend. Let it be assumed that Louise G. Robinovitch acquired the mark from ‘Woolf or Woolf’s estate’, the fact remains that she is not a party to this proceeding and her possible interest is not in issue. Such use as Mr. Woolf and his several companies may have made of the trade-mark could inure to applicant’s benefit only in the event of some sort of transfer to applicant. Proof of such transfer is wholly lacking.”
     

    patents

  23. Louise G. Robinovitch is named in three patents, all by Charles Mindeleff, of Jackson Heights, New York, Assignor to Louise G. Robinovitch, of Golden, Colorado.

    US1857318A / Hypochlorites (Application filed May 11, 1928. Patented May 10, 1932)

    US1878164A / Chlorine Preparation (Application filed August 3, 1928. Patented September 20, 1932)

    US1878510A / Chlorine preparation (Application filed November 26, 1928. Patented September 20, 1932)

    aside —
    Charles Mindeleff (?-1943 *) was a metallurgist and for a time chief chemist for the American Smelting and Refining Company ( wikipedia ), with operations in the Southwest (including Colorado, where he seems to have been based for a time).

    He was also a member of The Mecca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America. New York. (ca 1905) —
    5514 / Charles Mindeleff, as was
    5046 / Joseph G. Robin.

    — leading me to wonder if the three patents assigned to Louise G. Robinovitch were a kind of gift, perhaps in honor of her brother and Mindeleff’s fellow Noble of the Mystic Shrine, who in 1929 was “called from his early home to that Unseen Temple above” ( link ).

    see also Mecca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, its history and pleasures, together with the origin and history of the order. (1894)
    LoC : link
     

    obituary

  24. “Former Goldenite Passes Away June 6”
    The Colorado Transcript 88:35 (June 17, 1954)
    Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection :     link

    transcription —

    Dr. Louise G. Robinovitch of Denver, formerly of Golden, passed away Sunday, June 6, at the Mile High Sanitarium, 2221 Downing street, Denver.
          Dr. Robinovitch was born in Russia on Dec. 31, 1866, of French and Russian parentage. She received her early education in Paris and Munich, coming to America when she was in her twenties to locate her brother a New York city writer and publisher.
          Having a brilliant mind, Dr. Robinovitch spent years in research and study. About 1926 she came to Golden to continue research in tuberculosis and was aided by the kindness of her friends, the Coolbaugh family of Golden. Much valuable material which she has written is still unpublished. After the death of her brother, she returned to New York city where she carried on his work and later lived in New Jersey. Three years ago she returned to Denver to regain her health.
          The Rev. Carl J. Kissling, First United Presbyterian church, Denver, officiated at the funeral services held at the Capitol Civic Center chapel on June 10. Interment was made at Fairmount. Friends from Golden attending the services were Mrs. M. F. Coolbaugh, Jack Coolbaugh and Mrs. Edward Jacobs.

    —

    M. F. Coolbaugh (1877-1950), president of the Colorado School of Mines 1925-1946
    obituary at The Oredigger (School of Mines, 31:1; September 19, 1950)
    via Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection : link
     

    mentions in recent literature

  25. 1997
    Mickey S. Eisenberg. Life in the Balance : Emergency Medicine and the Quest to Reverse Sudden Death (1997) : 183-186
    available via google preview :     link
    borrowable at archive.org : link

          “Robinovitch almost got it right. Her device could assist in selected cases of respiratory arrest — according to her, it caused artificial breathing ‘superior to all other forms of artificial respiration known to us to-day.’ But it would not work for the far more common conidtion of ventricular fibrillation. The ideal device, she said, would be ‘the invention of a simple, always ready, quickly applicable, and infallible method of resuscitatio.’
        *  It is unclear why none of Robinovitch's scientific colleagues followed the thread of electrical defibrillation...”

  26. 1998
    Mary R. S. Creese. Ladies in the laboratory? American and British women in science, 1800-1900 : a survey of their contributions to research
    borrowable at archive.org : link

    “LOUISE ROBINOVITCH (b. 1867) took an MD at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1889. After a period as a resident hospital physician in Philadelphia, she practiced in New York City until 1923, for a time serving as assistant physician at the Insane Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. Thereafter, until the late 1930s, she had a practice in Golden, Colorado...
    A fellow of the American Medical Association, Robinovitch had continuing interests in research. Her first publication, on methods for reducing fever, appeared in 1892. In the period up to 1911 she carried out a number of studies on the physiological effects of electric currents and procedures for resuscitation after electrocution; her findings appeared in about eleven papers, many in the New York Journal of Mental Pathology, and others in European journals. She spent a year at the Ecole de Médecine in Paris in 1906. In the 1920s she coauthored a number of studies on treatments for tuberculosis. She died in the early 1950s.”

    “Robinovitch is incorrectly listed in the Royal Society Catalogue as Rabinovitch.” (p179)

  27. 2019
    Gerald N. Grob. Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940 (2019) : 246 : link (google books preview

    “Louise G. Rabinovitch, the first female physician to own and publish a psychiatric periodical (the Journal of Mental Pathology), never even received a hearing because her militant criticisms of American psychiatry, which reflected her European training, appeared so alien.
          After the turn of the century, however, the structure of psychiatric authority began to change.”
     

The Journal of Mental Pathology (1901-1909)

Louise G. Robinovitch edited the The Journal of Mental Pathology through nine years, eight volumes. The table below provides a census of (and links to) “leading articles” by Dr. Robinovitch; her editorials are also described.
with a few exceptions, abstracts, translations, book reviews, and other incidental notices are not listed.

A   :   number Robinovitch papers / all papers);
B   :   Robinovitch pages; and
C   :   total pages, all leading articles; followed by
D   :   titles/topics of main editorial content, if any; occasional other asides.

all links below are to Harvard/Countway copy/scans (via archive.org)
various other copies/scans listed/linked at hathitrust : link
 

vol date articles by Dr. Robinovitch A B C D
1:1 June 1901 Idiot and Imbecile Children I 1/6 11 43 “Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century”
1:2 July 1901 Idiot and Imbecile Children II 1/4 11 32 relative fitness of male and female attendants in insane wards; letter to editor re: overuse of the “insanity plea” driven by “expert alienists”
1:3 Nov 1901 On the Duty of the State in the Matter of the Prevention of the Birth of Crime and of its Propagation 1/4 12 43 editorial on assassination of President McKinley; observes that this number of the journal is devoted to the subjects of criminality and criminal anthropology; communications (as above) on the “insanity plea”
1:4-5 Dec 01-Jan 02 A Clinical Study of Morbid Obsessions and Impulses 1/4 13 53 notices and book reviews only
2:1 Feb 1902 The Genesis of Epilepsy Clinically Considered — The Pathology, Prophylaxis and Treatment of Epilepsy I 1/6 11 38 “Science vs. Secrecy” — on the “almost impenetrable barricade which rears its frowning head at the entrance doors of every institution for the insane, hiding its faults and defects...”
2:2 March 1902 The Genesis of Epilepsy Clinically Considered II 1/4 5 34 “The Evolution of Crime” — questions Alfred Niciforo’s contention (in a paper published in this number) that horrible forms of crime are on decrease, and fraud on increase
2:3 April 1902 The Genesis of Epilepsy Clinically Considered III 1/3 9 36 decries medical witnesses agreeing to testify for either defense or prosecution, leading to distrust by laity; various notes (e.g., “olfactory sensibility in general paralysis;” “a theory of hallucinations”)
2:4 May 1902 The Genesis of Epilepsy Clinically Considered IV 1/4 9 27 on The Providence (RI) Medical Journal, its policy against including “abstracts” — “Long Life to the ‘abstract’ say we.”
2:5 June 1902 The Genesis of Epilepsy Clinically Considered V 1/4 3 42 “Philosophic Research versus Reality” — on national “traits” (re: a paper by E. Murisier)
3:1 July 1902 The Study of Psychiatry of To-day; — Of what should it consist? 1/2 20 31 “Fiat Lux” — on exclusion of scientific workers and students from mental institutions; kudos to the New York Journal for treatment of alcoholism as factor of insanity, criminality, etc.; “Women Nurses in Wars for Insane Men” (refers to editorial in number of June 1901)
3:2-3 Oct-Nov 1902 ToC 0/4 0 30 “Criticism versus Cant” — on (chilly) reception of “Dr. Robinovitch’s” paper on mismanagement of mental institutions (at a Montreal conference)
3:4-5 1902-1903 ToC 0/4 0 31 Publisher’s Note : “The unavoidable absence from the country of the Editor of this journal has delayed the issue of the last two numbers. Subscriptions will be set ahead accordingly.” followed by News from Europe.
4:1, 2, 3 1903 ToC 0/5 0 72 “Moral Crutches” — on resistance to the “dual-management” of insane asylums (as asylums on one hand, and sites of scientific research, perhaps experimentation on the other), written by/for “those of us who are not bound by any ties... not influenced by the reciprocal sentiments of clannish cliques... not dependent on the favor of the powers-that-be”
interesting “Quotations. Abstracts from Mental Functions of the Brain, by Dr. Hollander.”
4:4-5 1903 ToC (aside : vigorous editorial notes in these numbers) 0/2 0 39 A Eulogy on [Jules] Baillarger [wikipedia : “Il a particulièrement travaillé sur les hallucinations, la mélancolie, la paralysie générale et la « folie à double forme » ou trouble bipolaire.”]; other notes, communications, book reviews
5:1 1903 Suicidal and Homicidal Acts. Their Clinical Aspects and Medico-Legal Significance I (note: many cases, almost literary) 1/2 29 35 International Program for the Study of Psychiatry (report and comments)
5:2-3 1903 Suicidal and Homicidal Acts. II 1/4 15 29 The Causes of Criminality (notice of recent critical review of the literature, by Joseph vanKan)
5:4-5 1903-1904 Suicidal and Homicidal Acts. III 1/5 11 35 “The Pathology of Essential Epilepsy;” more on the “dual-headed” management of hospitals for the insane
6:1-2 1904 ToC 0/2 0 23 notices, “translations and abstracts”
6:3-4 1904 ToC 0/2 0 35 “The Function of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Bodies,” being a two-page report on paper published in the Gazette médicale de Nantes; followed by the usual translations and abstracts of current literature.
6:5 1904 ToC 0/2 0 38 “Attempt on the Life of Dr. Vallon” by a patient in Ste.-Anne, Paris; followed by “The Perils of the Psychiatrist” and several briefer notes; translations and abstracts
7:1 1905 no ToC, but first page spread 0/2 0 26 “The Phases of Consciousness from the Medico-Legal Point of View;”
“The Newest Conception of Conscious and Will-Power” on a “striking” paper by G. Sergi in Archives de Psychologie (link); and shorter notes; translations and abstracts
7:2 1905 Electrocution. An Experimental Study with an Electric Current of Low Tension. Illustrated with Cardiographic and Respiratory Tracings. With some critical remarks on the present method of the official electrocution. A preliminary communication. 1/2 13 29 report on “The V-th International Congress of Psychology” (Rome, April 26-30, 1905), including abstracts of some of the papers read there
7:3 1905 Remarks on a Specific Human Energy and its Economic and Social Significance / aside, amazing paper touching on “race suicide” 1/2 15 22 translations and abstracts, one longer for Dr. Biaute, “On the Diseases of Sleep: Crimes Committed during Somnambulism;”
also more abstracts of papers read at Rome Congress, including A. Krogluss, “Contribution to the Study of the Psychology of the Blind.”
7:4 1905 Electric Sleep. An Experimental Study with an Electric Current of Low Tension. Illustrated with Cardiac and Respiratory Tracings. A preliminary communication. 1/3 8 16 brief notes, including a perhaps ironic “Sign of Civilization,” on NYTimes report of mourning “not the birth, but the non-birth of babies;” and usual translations and abstracts
7:5 1906 The Genesis of Genius “read by title” (?) at the Second Belgian Congress of Neurology and Pyschiatrie, Brussels, August 29-31, 1906.
“Genius inherits cellular potentiality as do all his brothers and sisters, but his cellular potentiality is of a higher degree...” (p231)		 1/2 20 39 no editorial content.
8:1 1906 The Genesis of Sex (“practically an introduction to my paper ‘The Genesis of Genius’”) 1/4 15 30 “A Medal for Dr. Magnan... One side of the medal will present, in bas-relief, Dr. Magnan leaning over a maniacal patient undergoing bed treatment...”
8:2 1907 Resuscitation of Electrocuted Animals. Choice of the Electric Current and Method Used. Application to Human Beings. Experimental Study of the Respiration and Blood Pressure during Electrocution and Resuscitation. A Preliminary Communication. 1/4 7 33 “What Paranoia Is Not. A Plea for An Intelligible Classification of Mental Diseases” and (a satiric) “The Simplified Expert Alienist.”
8:3 1907 Methods of Resuscitating Electrocuted Animals... Second preliminary communication. (8 pages)       obituary, Nicholas Vaschide;
book reviews (including (physicians’) “Emotions on Witnessing Capital Punishment”
    General and Cerebral Blood Pressure during an Attack of Electric Epilepsy; A preliminary communcation. (2)      
    Electric Anaesthesia. Its Use in Laboratory Work (3)      
    Methods of Resuscitating Animals in a Condition of Respiratory and Cardiac Syncope Caused by Choroform... Experimental study. (5) 4/8 18 48
8:4 1909 Resuscitation of Subjects in a Condition of Apparent Death Caused by Chloroform, Ether, Electrocution, Drowning, Etc. Necessity of Excluding the Central Nervous System from the Circuit During the Rhythmic Excitations. Clinical Application of the Method. (five plates) (16.5 pages)       none
    Electric Anaesthesia in Laboratory Surgery Successfully Applied during a period of three years. Demonstration on an animal and clinical application (Presentation of patients). (9)      
    Resuscitation of a Woman in Profound Syncope Caused by Chronic Morphine Poisoning. Means Used: Rhythmic Excitations with an Induction Current. — The Author’s Method and Model of Coil. (3)      
    Different Effects of Various Electric Currents. Choice of the Electric Current for Purposes of Resuscitation of Subjects in a Condition of Apparent Death Caused by Chloroform, Morphine, Electrocution, etc. (2)      
    Presentation of Instruments. Motor-Interrupter Supplying a current of Frequent Interruptions for Electric Anaesthesia. (one amazing photo) (3)      
    Induction Coil Specially Constructed According to our Indications for Purposes of Subjects in a Condition of Apparent Death Caused by Chloroform, Morphine, Electrocution, etc.; plus 3pp of shorter abstracts, one of Robinovitch, plus one plate with figs 1-3) (2.5)      
    Experimental Lesion of the Spinal Cord Produced by Means of Lethal Electric Currents. Different Effects of Various Electric Currents. (A preliminary communication.)      
    Triple Interrupter of Direct Currents for Resuscitation. Portable Model for Ambulance Service. (one plate) (2.5)      
    Physiological Effects of a New Variety of Electric Current. “Within the last few days we came across...” (2.5) 9/9 44 48

Summary : Robinovitch authored 32 of the 109 “leading articles” (approximately 299 of their 989 pages, or just under one third) published in the journal she edited. The final issue is entirely given over to her own output; she must have seen the end was near.
 

22 August 2024