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who, until then, exercised total control of their institutions. It was an ongoing struggle between the
Commission and the superintendents, and Blumer took an active role. Blumer’s struggle with the Commission included the Commission’s attempt to take over the leading psychiatric publication in the United States, the
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Commission on Lunacy with the director to be responsible for the administration of the state mental hospitals. The Commission of two lay members and a chief psychiatrist began to follow the legislature’s charge but encountered opposition from the state hospital superintendents
91:, the first superintendent at Utica and was owned by the hospital. An earlier court ruling confirmed that the hospital owned the journal. Blumer arranged for the American Medico-Psychological Association, now the
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34:. His father was a physician as were his two brothers. His early education in England was followed by schooling in Germany and France. In 1874, he entered the medical school at the
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Providence, Rhode Island where he remained until his retirement in 1921. Blumer remained in Providence after retirement and was named Superintendent Emeritus of Butler.
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Blumer was elected president of the
American Psychiatric Association from 1903 to 1904. His presidential address dealt with the politicization of state mental hospitals,
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Blumer instituted many reforms at Utica. He abolished all forms of patient restraints, improved living conditions for patients, placed women
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community. He remained an editor emeritus of the journal until he died. In 1899, he accepted the post of
Superintendent of the private
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on male wards, established occupations and amusements for patients, and succeeded in officially changing the name of the institution to
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Blumer, George A. "Addresses
Delivered at the Opening of the Pathological Laboratory of the Rhode Island Hospital, 10 May 1900,"
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and remained for one year before he emigrated to the United States. He completed his medical degree at the
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Drudges’: Hospital Psychiatry in New York State, 1890-1905,"
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Blumer, George A. "Notes Taken from the
Clinical Lectures of James Gregory, of Edinburgh, in 1787,"
62:, M.D., a prominent psychiatrist. Gray died in 1886 and Blumer became the superintendent of Utica.
50:, he obtained a post of assistant physician at the New York State Lunatic Asylum (also known as the
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While at Butler, Blumer participated in numerous community organizations. He was president of the
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Medical and Material Aspects of Industrial Employment for the Insane,"
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Blumer, George A. "A Case of
Perverted Sexual Instinct (conträre Sexualempfindung),"
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Blumer, George A. "Little Biographies and the Eponymic Diseases: Luther Vose Bell,"
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Blumer, George A. "A Half-Century of American Medico-Psychological Literature,"
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Albany Medical Annals: A Journal of the Medical Society of the County of Albany
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Albany Medical Annals: A Journal of the Medical Society of the County of Albany
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Blumer received honorary degrees from Brown University (L.H.D., 1905) and from
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The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada
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Blumer, George A. "The Yesterday and To-day of Mental Medicine,"
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Blumer, George A. "The Care of the Insane in Farm Dwellings,"
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Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association
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and graduated in 1879. After a residency of one year at
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Blumer, George A. "Music in its Relation to the Mind,"
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Journal of the History and Medicine and Allied Sciences
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Transactions of the New York State Medical Association
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140:(L.H.D. 1921). He was named an honorary member of
250:Blumer, George A. "The Coming of Psychasthenia,"
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238:Transactions of the Rhode Island Medical Society
162:Blumer, George A. "Syphilis and Intemperance,"
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315:Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, eds.
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243:Blumer, George A. "Presidential Address,"
375:The American Journal of Psychiatry editors
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183:Blumer, George A. "The Halliday Case,"
303:A Century of Butler Hospital, 1844-1944
252:Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
211:Blumer, George A. "Feigned Insanity,"
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350:People from Sunderland
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283:Who's Who in America
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