Salt Lake Telegram
Previous Issue
Next Issue
Pages | 18 of 18

Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-08-31 | Page 18 | Daily Health Service

Type issue
Date 1933-08-31
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6rv1wtv
Reference URL https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rv1wtv

Page Metadata

Article Title Daily Health Service
Type article
Date 1933-08-31
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 18
OCR Text Daily Health Service Why People Leave Leate Home Homa By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN At a recent meeting of ot the Ameri Amen American can Medical association considerable interest was given to a report by Dr I I L. L H. H Ziegler of oC a condition called h hysterical fugues For some hundreds of years the nature nature na na- na ture of hysteria has been recognized by br physicians During hysterical conditions conditions con con- various functions of the human body are disordered Many of or the usual activities of everyday life arc are disturbed disturbed dis dis- so that that- th there rc are queer performances performances per per- during eating sleeping working remembering listening or talking The word fugue e comes from a Latin word meaning flight The chief manifestation of hysterical fugue is the fact that thal the patient leaves home and makes a journey that cannot be justified jus his by any reasonable motive After the attack the person who has been affected wakes up on an unknown road or in some strange place e S SAs As as 1895 physicians listed three chief symptoms as typical of th the fu fugue ue I An I-An An irresistible impulse to travel 2 The 2 The fact tact that the travel is accomplished accomplished accomplished ac ac- ac- ac without any accident and andin andin andin in an intelligent manner 3 When 3 When the patient wakes up he has complete loss of memory as to what occurred during the flight Readers will remember a recent case of this character involving an an important individual namely that of Colonel Raymond Robins who left len his home and was found some weeks later without any memory of ot the time that had passed from the date of his disappearance disappearance dis dis- dis appearance until his discovery S The dramatic character of oC this con condition is such as to make it attract much attention on It Is Dr Ziegler's belief belie that the hysterical flight is caused by conflicts of temperament in inthe inthe inthe the home and the development of oC personal personal per per- problems of considerable magnitude magnitude mag mag- which the patient p is unable to solve It was vas Interesting that two of oC th patients had on an earlier occasion been associated wit with occupations ns in which travel and adventure are com corn mon mono It is is s of or course easy for the a average person to suggest that the person who ho makes such a flight light is putting pulling on onor onor or malingering but physicians know that these conditions actually do occur occur occur oc oc- oc- oc cur and that it is highly desirable in such cases to make a careful study of the condition and to explain to the patient the nature of the attacks and thereby in fri most instances to bring about bou a cure
Reference URL https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rv1wtv/16233163