| Show Insanity Not o a atlie Disease of I Ithe the Brain But Hut of the Senses By Dr D. Leonard Keene Hirsh Hirshberg berg A. A II n. M. M t. t A. A M M. D. D Johns John Hopkins University To be a little weak mentally and somewhat frail In mind as 18 compared with what had hod been manifested there before la is a often tho the measure of or the tho sanity san san- fly ity or Insanity of or a particular ld ual 1 A old 3 child Is not a great deal donI more Intelligent than an ape apo Pigs are ure smarter martor than rats or crows Monkeys Mon ton keys are arc brighter than pigs Large Largo apes use tise their minds most of or all aU the they even show decided signs of or thought Tb These se are some of or the tiie facts established by Professor Robert nobert M. M t. t Yerkes of at the tho department of ot psychology at nt Harvard after many months of or ex ex- Julius a n. young orang was Professor Yerkes's Yerke star pupil and demonstrated demonstrated dem dem- in one Instance that ho thought more quickly than a year old child chUd The Tho child chUd up tho the task of or trying to get a banana suspended In Inthe Inthe the tho air nil whereas 8 Julius through h the exercise of or his mind piled up some boxes near nt itt hand and eventually obtained the prize The Tho exact frontier and border line between a n mild typo of or lunacy and anti an original genius who Is 18 surely Burely sane no is not easily apparent to tho day every man Ho Is hI only able ablo to call a man In Insane Insano ano If It ho is la so ao definitely of unsound mind as to have havo openly acted or expressed ex ex- pressed himself In permanent delusions delu delu- dons illusions or hallucinations When ben any one ono Is said to be out ot of his senses ho I Is actually actual craz crazy This moans maIn that ho he falls raU to appreciate truly Dud aRId to value in real worth Impressions lon received by some somo of or his hla senses Ho lie Homay Homay may bo hard bard of or hearing and deaf dear to language sounds and actions conveyed conveyed conveyed con con- to tho mind by tho the sense Bene of ol I audition he may hear bear yo voices Ices and I commands which aro nonexistent non or ho may misinterpret a L poorly or heard noise as something else If It these theBo illusions hallucinations ant and omissions arc Are pen persistent stent and permanent perma penna nent they finally supersede the persons person's persons person's per per- sons son's capacity to correct them In other oth othor er or words the tha tRl false impressions become bo- bo come lIk like tho the German Germon delusions delusion of ot a whole nation accepted as real and true Then th the affected p person non be begins to make the most absurd and ridic to 1 f and explanations 91 for tor himself to be true Obviously Ob a n man or a government out of ot his senses Is a lunatic oven men though his medulla oblongata and his brain are aro as aB sound as a n bell It is idle rot hopelessly antique to say that insanity is js a disease of or the brain I Until tho the fact is taken into ac no- count that injuries and maladies of oC the way station and switchboard the switchboard tho brain cause brain cause only a part of or tho the vanous van vari ous S kinds of ot madness their corrective measures will vili taU fall In many mental complaints It is not partial deafness that puts puta a man out of his senses Moro More than this i Is la involved Blindness however is less often orten responsible for mental deI de do- I because spoken language Is more maro Intimately associated with I thought memory and muscular action than ore are the eyes I Disturbances of a serious nature which Involve tho the sense muscle hearing hear hear- I lag ing touch and the other skin senses I If U they lost last any great length of ot time Interfere lar largely largel ely with sanity j These facts nets cX explain Vh why any ono ad- ad dieted to alcohol morphine hypnotics land and and sedative drugs really warps his j 1 Intellect The Tho sensations received are dulled twisted blighted or perverted i and the tho victim is 18 trul truly alienated from torn j things as S they really iro re ro In the tho world I Ills His Impressions are re faulty partial untrue fanciful unreasonable d doI dc- dc I formed formell and exaggerated crated Such a Q person cannot have o knowledge knowl- knowl knowledge edge cannot know the truth and canI cannot can can- I not have hao a good mind because his i I senses are re not capable of taking In i objects as the they are Therefore they I cannot correctly bring up the tho proper and and corresponding pa past t memories anti and I experiences I which are necessary to i perceive what Is going on in all Its I I bearings and Intelligible relations |
