New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1927, Page 3

DEMENTIA PRAECOX | BEING CONQUERED Ruthorities Declare No Case Is! | immediate skilled treatment and the NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMLiR 27, 1.al. hope that much may be done to al- lay or remove the discase symp- toms. To the doctor interested in mental disease, as well as to all physicians, we have in this mental disease—which even today accounts for nearly 20,000 new victims goilrg into the mental hospitals of this country each year—a challeuge for carly recognition, the institution of |interviewed in behalt of FLASHES QF LIFE: ITALIAN FOLK | ANXIOUS TO SEE POLI ONCE MORE| —_— New York—OIld folks in the main | child is a far better speller than his are able to take care of themselves. Of 14,815 persons over 65 years old iroremlhr'rs in the opinion of Pro- | fessor Frank N. Freedman of the the Na-| University of Chicago as expressed tional Clvic Federation only 20 to 25 {at a meeting of Scientists. The rea- Circle, Ala.—The holiday mail was on time because of a jewel of a driver of dogs. Hands and feet frozen when the mercury went to 58 below during his trip from Cha- tanika, Driver Jewell weathered an extremely severe storm in interior Alaska. New York — Various Droadway notables who struck the street pro- T Fater 5 |airplane, on the bases of the first | public demonstration, nright be re- |str 1 garded as self-exploding. The motor, |sweeps Silver § des a gned to propel the machine for | ake-off before “vacuum \‘nPPLn"" Hartford East Haven—Two Rev. Dr. de- which Alexander 0 crash. Milford—RBody of Robert Cutler, missing man is found in deserted shore cottage. got to work on the propeller, blew | Ross Merriam, professor emeritus at . up, injuring the nventor, J din, Bridgeport—The Lockshire (count em) New York—Latest indications are || strong E. Nor- | Hartford Theological Semi after short fllness. Middletown — Anthony Pillarela died in Middlesex hospital following t. fam- will that experienced motorists in this state who are buying gear-shift cars for the first time will have to take examinations for licenses all over gain. hope in perhaps one-third of the s of definite improvement or so- ial recovery. And with an improve- ment of our methods of treatment, with an Increased knowledge of the individual case, we may hope in time to wipe out a large part of the | spectre of hopelessness and mental deterioration in an increasing num- ber of these case per cent were dependent on rela- tives or charity. While real suffer- | ing was found, many of those ques- | tioned had ampls means, | son is modern educational methods. Willlam Carroll 1s victim of suto crash—dies in hospital. pelled by a flying wedge of waiters are mourning John Du New York—Whether full advan- ¥ears the proprictor |tage was taker of the approach of |t it. It used to be considered a |leap year is not disciosed. At the | distinction to start something in hi: Turin, Italy—The glad hand s most claborate Christmas social af- | °ating and drinking place becs ready for Sylvester Z. Poll, of New | fair & huge cluster of mistletoe hung | f the incvitable sequel. Haven, who recently sold his thea- | from the central chandelier in the == trical interests for $30,000,000. At | ballroom of the Ritz. It was at the 1 least 45 nephews and other relatives | debut of Miss Eieanor Post Hutton. are ready to welcome the rich uncle | There were three orchestras and o gather here on New Year's night for | reunion, Now Considered Hopeless | —_— | New Haven, Dee. praccox, one tim lolescent insanity,” for many Y s considered one of the most aded of mental disease because it was thought to be hopelessly in- curable, is gradually being conquer- «l, and psychatrists who have W. Harold You and two others, from over Bridgeport—Mike d. falls from 27—Dementia known as | McFall, freighter deck and Meriden—Dr. of Bridgeport, | narrow escape their car turns with bus. injury when New Haven—Elmer Sniffen of after crash | Norwalk, seriously fnjured when auto turns over, Three others less | seriously hurt, | : Hartfori—Policeman Francis A, Hyland is shot in leg while attempt. Mix re-ling to take gun from drunken man ksonville, Fla. — The latest e for northerners who prefer winter is to tome shop- Waterbury—Coroner Eli es two witn in Michael An- studied this condition most exten- | ively now say that there is no c H 1o matter how malignant the symp- loms appear to us, that is necessar- ily hopeles Dr. Arthur H. Rug- | gles, noted psychiatrist, writing in “Mental Hygiene News,” the official ¢rgan of the Connecticut Society for ntal Hygiene. Dr. Ruggles 18 con- ant in mental hygicne, and lec- turer in psychiatry at Yale Univer- and {s acting medical director the Connecticut Society for ntal He is also direc- e Butler hospital at Prov! ©, R. I. During the war he was consultant in neuro-psychiatry for Iingland, later becoming medical di- The French government awarded him the Croix de Guerre, Since the description of dementia praecox ahout 1900 by the German psychiatrist, Dr. Kraepelin,” Dr. Ruggles “cases of dementia ecox h filled our mental hos- vitals, have crowded our outpatient partments and have been prob- in the community. Previous to 300 this form of mental disease had been called adolescent insanit name heing given it by the psychiatrist, Dr. Clouston. Not much was known ahout this adolescent fn- nity except that it appeared dur- the period of ndolescence, was acterized by dslusions, halluei- rations, seclusivenoss and disorders of conduct, It usually progressed to a form of mental deterioration which was called dementla, incapaci- tating its vietims for any work and rendering them a burden upon thelr family and community. With the very elaborate description of this mental disease about 1900 we learn- «d that there were several types of dementia praccox and we were given a detailed description of the symp- ms presented by all groups of ses and were told that the outlook is unfavorable and that only about one or two per cent made sufficient improvement. to permit of their be- ing In any degree socially useful. Study of Causes, With the development of the new- v psychiatry which strives to under- stand the causes rather than to des- cribe symptoms, we realized that dementia praecox represented o faulty mental development in its vie- tim and was characterized by a mental disturbance in which the sick person got away from reality and sought refuge in'a world of fantasy and fllusion; and hecause of thls tendency to split oft from reality in- to a world of unreality, Dr. Bleuler | of Zurich suggested the name schizo- phrenia. This may seem to the lay- mana rather jawbreaking term but to the medical men and women it does give a better conception of | what takes place than the older term | which semed to indicate that a re. quisite of the Jisease was always mental deterioration or dementia. “From 1900 to about 1215, about | forty per cent of the cases in our | mental hospitals were diagnosed as q a praccox. With a more ac- | curate study of each individual case, the percentage of dementia praecox cases in our hospitals has diminish- ¢4 since 1915 until today only ahcut twenty-five per cent are thus classi- fied. This diminution in the per- ntage has not heen bronght about rance of the disease, » more accurate study and better classification, because when the new name was brought out in 1900 and the masterful des- cription given, many cascs previous- 1y got classified were immediately put Into it and many others suffering from congzenital mental defects and from organic braln disease were put .Anto this Mssification and were only gradually taken from it by more in- tonsive study. Say No Case Is Hopeless, “For years each family who had young member afflicted by a mental disease had over them the ctre of dementia praecox with its hle outlook and hopeles treatment, Now we know t this mental process when reco; carly and its mechanism some what understood, can be in many cases treated so effectively that fts victims can be restored to a fairly normal degree of economic and &o- cial usefulness. And some of the p: chiatrists who have studied this con- dition most extensively now go so far as to say that there is no case, no matter how malignant the symp- toms appear to be, that is necessar- ily hopeless. Some of the cases at tirst presenting the most severe symptoms under treatment appear to do very well; 6a the other hand, cortain cases beginning mildly in spite of all treatment do progress to niental dilapidation. However, the past ten years have given us a much otter understaniing of the begin- ning of this discase and the mechan- ism of its progress and with this in- creasing knowledge we have*been niuch better able to effect a mental radjustment of these individuals so that now the diagnosis of dementia praccox, or the better adapted term of schizopharenia, does not as it used to, indicate hopelessness and chroni- city, but rather gives to the doctor and nurse an opportunity to do con- structive work and in an increasingly large percentage of cases to return the patients to their home and many times to their work. “The lesson that we should learn from this is 10 face fajrly and squarely the earliest evidences of mental diseases, seck at once gkilled treatment and be encouraged by the (UTSand SCRATCHES Stop the smarting and hasten ihs healing by prompt application of Resinol| or by To raise funds for church im- provements, the vicar of §t. 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