Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1927, Page 5

" DOGTORSDICLSS NERVOUS DISEASES Relationship Between Body | and Mind Keynote of Sec- MEDICAL ASSOCIATION PROGRAM. This Affernoon and Tonight, 2 o'clock—Section meetings. 3 to 4:30—Visit to the navy ard, gun factory and U. S. S, flower by ladies, 0 to 6—Special ladies. 4:30 to 6—Reception by presi- dent and faculty of George Washington University to fel- lows of association and wives. —Auto trips for woman phy- teas for tional Meeting. There a close #ween hody taken into consideration by relationship be- the gen- » keynote of the open the Nervous Dis of t American Med the Raleigh vesterday | al stress, it was | cause all the symp- of such an ailment as and even result in useless operation | in the complicated | ¢ today is responsible numbers of cases in al, Dr. Grove: at the Henry told the sec uch of the psycho- | practiced is a tempt | m patients inf on oned fam dent of the commun vway al ®ocial syster {for the Calls Tdea Wrong. lar idea enterta that control is a matter of misconception, Dr | ined that this » most potent causes of s tension. The | ind upon his condi- | 1 to conquer it, he ex- | the obse: their power. biems of the neu lay in unhurried < understanding f the social problems, and a frank ecognition of the patient’s inability o understand his own difficulties. Severe headaches, said Dr. Smith, may really be a sign of the inability f the individual to meet the problems f life and enlarged tonsils often are lamed for ailments which actually ave their origin in the emotional tress of the patient. Recommends Psychiatry. } The necessity of a warking knowl- ‘eduv of psychiatry on the part of the eneral practitioner was stressed by Or. Cornelius C. Wholey of Pittsburgh. | he physician, he said, often fears to déelve into pneuro-psychiatic condi- ons, with fatal results to the patient He referred particularly to the in B tlor sctaustion psychosis in such diseases pneumonia and typhoid ever. When the patient becomes con- Nufl sign that a toxic s started on the brain, and an | mediate cleansing-out process is | Restlessness, terror, un- s and faultfinding, he . are early signs of this condition nd should warn the physicia There are three types of nervous dis- . he said, which the doctor should able to recognize in early stages. t important of these, he said, 1l paresis, which in its early s may be difficult to distinguish om hysteria, but which can be dif- entiated by the fact that mental and moral deterioration go on to- gether. by of | ned avhich hav fimolu otic xaminatic 1im in Business Is Neglected. eglect of business, carelessness in s and morals and general reversal iof previous character, he said, can accepted as very serious symptoms. other difference, it was pointed out, that the neurasthenia victim be- pomes depressed and constantly is mplaining, while the person in the meipient stages of general paresis inclined to make light of his oubles. Diaggosis should be made ith knee and ‘elbow jerks and blood gsw when these signs are first noted, a said. The second type described by Dr. "holey was dementia precox, which ppears during adolescence. Its vic- ms are of two types—those boys and girls of a shrinking, seclusive mature, with high, uncompromising jdeas of morality and the exactly op- mosite, bold, unmoral tvpe. Such per- sons will complain of excruciating but show no signs of them. v will give foolish explanations of their feelings, such as “bubbles of gas in llm hea: or “decaying vital jorgans.” #They laugh when they hould cry and cry when they should Jaugh. Calmly Commit Crimes. Such persons, Dr. Wholey said, sometimes will commit calmly the jmost atrocious erimes, which might have been prevented, if the family ph 1 had recognized the symp- itor®s in time. The third type he described as the “anxiety neurosis, which comes wien the individual meets a situation [in life with which he cannot cope. It | results in the symptoms of serious prganic disfunctions. He told of a woman coming to a hospital with all !'the symptoms of serious heart troubl { for_which there could be found no o GARAGES FOR RENT individs reproof. between nd 17th sts., and V sts n.w. ‘month . br alley near Ward- Park Hotel and Cathedral Mansions. ) per month. “Fireproof shop or garage, between 6th and 7th, L and M n.w., size 25x55: has 8 separate entrances, $40 per monih. Call MRS. ROLLER, Col. 5996, Between 6 and 8 P.M. “We Are Offering for Sale Limited Number of 6% Flrst Trusts Bonds Notes Denominations of $100, $500 and $1,000 and mind which must be | al | from | ife, siclans. 0 to 8—Special dinners, 9—Reception to president and officers of A. M. A. by Medical Soclety of the District of Colum- bia in the ballroom of the May- flower Hotel. Tomorrow. 9 am. and 2 p.m.—Section meetings. inic_basis. Questioning finally re- | vealed that the woman's husband re- centl his fortune and that tion had been changed_ | resulted whole which the emational stre this had caused trouble. The condition usually disappea Dr. Wholey said, when the patient i induced to reveal the cause of wors but this information often can be ob tained only by the trained psychia- trist The Case of Boy Cited. instance was told of a 12-year- old boy, recovering from diphtheria, who would suffer paralysis of the re- spiratory muscles at intervals, which was accompanied by coughing, chok- ing and fainting. The physician final ly found that the whole trouble was due to the child’s fear of death and | disappeared when this fear was re- moved Pneurotic conditions usually An Dr. George B, Lake told the sec- tion. “One is likely to get dislocated in his own cosmos without a philoso- phy.” he said, “and to place the wrong evaluation on things within and without."” It is essential, he said, that the physician _have a _philosophy of his own in order to help the patient work out a system of values. Dr. Willlam House of Portland, Oreg., in his presidential address, pleaded for the treatment of mental cases on the same basis as those of other organs, and protested against State laws which condemn every in- sane person to a_ State asylum, evi- dently based on the belief that there is a close connection between insan- ity and crime. Discusses Mental Diseases. ery large city, he said, should have a privately endowed hospital for mental diseases, where the patient could pay according to his means, just as now is done for every other sort of illne: He defended the private sanitarium, for those who could afford it, against the charge that it often is used by unscrupulous relatives, conspiring with unscrupu- lous physicians, to get rich, elderly persons out of the way, so that their fortunes could be squandered. He said that there might be some such cases, but by no means so many per sons were detained unjustly in pi vate as in public institutions. ‘The system which condemns all in- sane persons to public institutions, he said, prevents persons who may feel the incipient stages of a mental dis- ease from going to a physician and taking treatment which would result in a complete cure. They fear that if it becomes known that their minds are slipping they will be confined in such an institution, with all the unfor- tunate social consequences. When the cases finally come to light nothing can be done for them. Calls State’s View Wrong. “The State seems to think, Dr. House, “that the ipsane person has no right which the State is bound to respect. When a man is condemn- ed to a State hospital he loses the right to such nursing, comfort and care as his financial means would entitle him to if he were suffering from such a disease as tuberculosis.” Dr. Philip R. Lehrman of ew York told of the need of investigating the phantasies of a patient suffering from neuroses or many of the con- duct disorders. Phantasies, he said, may be perfectly normal, but are apt to develop abnormally under favor- able circumstances. Dr. L. N. Cazenavette of New Or- leans stated that mental disease in lepers is more frequent than is gener- ally believed. 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Moses & Sons To Make Room for the New Summer Millinery Will Close Out Friday and Saturday A Large Collection of Smart Hats DECLARED DANGER Often Spread Infections De- | spite Sterilization of Water, ; Doctors Are Told. | Was the old swimming hole less | of a hazard than the modern ster- | ilized pool? Although strenuous been made toward steri water in swimming pool have become so frequent vears that almost every family has | been brought to grief in one v [ or another from swimming, Dr. Fred- | |erick E. Hasty of Nashville, Tenn., told the eye, nose and throat sec- tion of the American Medical Asso- ciation meeting at the Washington Hotel this morning The number of bacteria in public pools is often under control, he ad-| mitted, but little consideration h been given to the kind of bacteria | present. Guinea pigs inoculated with | water from pools that had undergone | various processes of sterilization de- veloped practically every bacterial type of infection of the upper respi- ratory tract. The severity of the in- fections was found to vary in pro- portion to the severity of the colds prevalent in the neighborhood at that particular time. Pools Spread Infections. “Water gets into the nasal cham- bers of most swimmers,” Dr. Hasty sald, “carrying with it the contamina- tion of the pool and at the same time adding to the pool whatever bacteria may be present in the particular swimmer's nose. 1 have observed a number of boys who got sinus in- | fection from one pool as a result of | being required to duck their heads. Without exception, these infections cleared up in a few weeks after the boys had been forced to quit swim- ming. “Persons who have suffered from various forms of sinus infection or nasal obstruction are likely to devel- op acute attacks after swimming. The high percentage of frontal and eth- moidal sinal infection is due to viru- lent foreign bacteria reaching the vul- nerable part of the nose and to a lowered local and systemic resist- ance.” D have | zation of , infections | in recent | George D. Wolf of New York discussed hoarseness before this sec- tion, and said that “this common con- dition, annoying to the patient not ouly for itself but also because of the persistent curiosity on the part of | relatives and friends, may be a dan- | ger signal of organic disease.” | Causes of Hoarseness. In Dr. Wolf's opinion chronic laryngitis usually is secondary and tuberculosis of the lar: An oc- may be caused by a variety of con- ditions ranging from hysteria to cupation demanding excessive use of the voice, working in the presence of smoke, dust or irritating gases, the e of alcohol or tobacco, tubercu- losis or a growth in the throat may cause persistent hoarseness. In chil- dren suffocation followed by hoarse- ness is caused frequently by a coin which has slipped into the larynx. Use of the laryngoscope to_diagnose hoarseness was urged by Dr. Wolf, although he said many persons would rather remain hoarse than submit to an examination with this instrument. Agitation is on foot to provide graduate training for general prac- titioners who feel they are getting a bit rusty, Dr. George E. Shambaugh of Chicago told this section. He said that few universities are equipped to offer an efficient type of instruction to practitioners who are afraid that the tide of scientific ad- vance in_medicine i{s leaving them behind. He urged that other plans be brought forward to meet this demand. I f you are looking for a new home of the better type See— i Z131-737 Madison E = ) D istinctive, complete, delightfully situated homes that outclass anything you have seen at $8,950 Sample House Open Daily Until 9 N. L. Sansbury Co., Inc. 1418 Eye St. N.W. Main 5904 F Street & Eleventh OFF now $6.67 now $10.00 now $16.66 now $20.00 No C. 0. D. | Auditorium | plished by means of an electr | TYPHOID IN SOUTH TAR, WASHINGTON, The sound of the heating of the human heart, magnified millions of times, could be heard like far-off thun- der in a_demonstration before mem- bers of the American Medical at the Washington Auditorium day afternoon. Sometimes people think they hear the beating of their own hearts and are afraid others will hear them and thus reveal their hiding places, but | this idea is purely psychological. The physicians. heart cannot actually be heard with-| The stethoscope was placed over | out a stethoscope. | the heart of each man in turn and the | The enormous | pulsations peculiar to each echoed by veste the amplifiers Dr. Snook, Dr. Gamble and Dr. Pa D. White declared the electric stetho- scope would be of particular value in Dr. Clyde Snook of the Bell Tele-|instructing students in the different phone laboratories, explained the tech- | kinds of heart ailments revealed by nical side of the big stethoscope. He |the heats. held the sound detector apparatus in his mouth and clicked his teeth. A noise like a pistol shot came out of the loud speakers on the stage. Dr. C. J. Gamble of Philadelphia then came on the stage, bringing with him four men of varying ages. Each had a different type of heart. One had a mormal heart, another a murmur ing and the others types of hearts with technical irregularities known to | mplification at the day wa accom stetho- | appoxi scope. It was witnessed by mately 2,000 doctors. velop a_ well Dr. Smillie_declared Dr. C. O. H. Laughinghouse of Ra- leigh, N._C., analyzed the achieve- ments and limitations of county health |13 work. County health units are func- | pre tioning satisfactorily in many wa he said, but a sur shows that di eases of middle life are being neglect- ed. A definition of the province of the county health officer and the de- velopment of better understanding be- tween health officers and private prac- titioners are the outstanding needs of the system at present, he concluded. rounded service, SERIOUS, SAYS GILL| Alabama Health Officer Reports on Need of Protected Water Supplies. The black cloud of typhoid still hangs over the South. Country dis- and towns with a_population of than 5,000 furnish 80 per cent of » cases, Dr. D. G. Gill of the State Board of Health of Alabama, reported to the American Medical Association meeting here this morning. Unprotected water supplies are still the rule rather than the exception in| the rural South and are responsible for many of the epidemics, Typhoid carriers, however, in Dr. Gill's estima- tion are the source of most outbreaks through' the direct spread of infection. Ten per cent of the persons who have typhoid become carriers, the health officer’s report showed. The future of county health work depends on the interest and support given by State health departments, Dr. W. G. Smillie of New York said. The general principle of full-time local health work is accepted everywhere 1s the most efficient approach to health problems, he said, but it takes a county with a population of 25,000 or more with an annual per capita income of $400 or more and a density of from 25 to 50 persons per square mile to support a full-time unit with a mini- mum of four workers. 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