Show MUSIC AS MEDICINE an INSTEAD OF TONING UP A SICK MAN HE MAY BE TUNED UP dissuasion Dl laa or of a that I 1 H no noon suggested hy by an n eminent physician of st burg some tunes tan that would be inappropriate for certain ills professor TAr chanow of st petersburg lectured recently on the eliof music on the human organism and nl affirmed that music is ia of the greit arit eat service mi vice in the treatment of dibase di eaise ease and that by the proper use of music the th can be tuned like a musical instrument sufferers from nervo nerve disorders can he be states be soothed by music but thre must be employed with discrimination as in somo some cases it produces an effect contrary to that which aich is intended well opium will do that an anil 1 I so EO will man many other drugs when they aro are not need nd with discrimination so cp that is if no disparage disparagement ment to the therah therapeutic septic virtue of music so if professor is right and he is a scientific man the degree of musical doctor such each na was conferred on sir arthur sullivan is very vory likely to have a now new significance the tb subject opens up tip rather a broad view where will a college ter for such musical doctors be located whore where can a man studying musical medicine learn the effect of some heroic remedy like the trombone without originating a scourge of nervous diseases it is possible how ever to build the college in the me miamie of some omo vast uninhabited tract where professors pro fesson students and patients can literally lite cally sally wrestle with the problem there are ot of course coarse only a certain number of musical instruments will a musical doctor use all of them in his practice will they make up his charma coppolla cop copp oBia oela or will he be become a specialist on one instrument a first violinist so BO to speak in the grand orchestra of the pro fo selon tos fion if he be becomes a specialist he must treat different diseases by administering different tunes the swan song from 4 lohengrin would naturally have one effect upon a man in a fit tara ta ra ra boom de sy ay another professor tar chanow attributes attribute the frequent failure of music to cure diseases to its being used at the wrong time and in unsuitable cases soot course the young musical practitioner will exercise the nicest judgment he cart can lay down some standard rules like wagner in case of stupor or offenbach in melancholia but he will never dream of giving 1 owe ten dollars to ogrady w when hen an unfortunate lias has taken arsenic with suicidal intent or of prescribing the newest billet ballet music for a girl suffering with st vitus dance the savant expressed the conviction that a time will come when muio sic in the bands of scientifically trained an agent of great power for the relief of suffering it would bo be now if it were lu in tho the hands of scientifically trained physicians their training 0 has taught them to detect human suffering cring they can see a man wince when his ear is shocked hoc ked they can see him squirm and smiling all tile the time while some one sings the last rose of summer out of tune they can in fact fac t hear his teeth grate when his favorite air air is is played false call the ordinary young person at the piano do that can the leader of the german band can the fellow with the hand organ how can aubic fail to relieve exclaims Tar chanow when a series of cases casca has proved that it is tile tile alie inos inott t powerful regulator of mens men s moods mooda and feelings which dominate many sides of the psychical and physical life of tile organism A prof profane ine critic might suggest that musicians us a clas do not exemplify that perfect re regulation tion of their emotions which might be expected the professor has doubtless never seen two bandmasters band masters pulling illing each others ethers hair in a fight about the proper tempo of the dead march in saul it is even possible that he has never heard of rival prima donnas scratching an and I 1 alawin clawing but this failure to regulate the emotions ws of musicians may bo be the result of tile the tolerance begotten of overuse the same thing happens in the medicine of the present day an old inor morphia libia fiend can take enough of the dru drug to kill a dozen ordinary mm men then there there are of course those stylians Sty rians who beginning 1 to take arsenio arsenic when they are young are in in years a able Is to eat it as some people do garlic however all this may bo be tho sedative effect of music on patients in ill whom the instrument of mind is like sweet bells jingled jangled out of tune and harsh is universally ver sally admitted canon harford an englishman has reported clinical experiments peri ments made by the st cecilia guild that show ghow that it has a distinctly beneficial effect in certain cases of insomnia here too one would think the tune employed would have to be chaben with w very nice judgment music doubtless will relieve pain not by acting on oil the nerve centers but by distracting the sufferers sufferer 8 a attention this is the truo true field for music as aa a therapeutic a gelley agency and it is improbable able that hint it ever can dumore do more orpheus made trees and mountains dance to lo his lute and the pied pipers music purged hamelin of ruts ritts but it is ia very doubtful whether canon chuon hartford Hartfo nl aill ill ever charm away a 1 tumor or I 1 kiil liil iol 1 in laug aig of bacilli within with limits limit however mu music sic may be a most nio t useful handmaiden to medicine and in th this is age of nerved nerv eb it inight be ml lunic it to tn play all ail part in tile the of the many diefes die aes which urr are f fosi li ed it if not ilot actually engendered by ilela and ami fatigue quion hartford abill his hia bollt agues may bu be encouraged to gerte vere in theia efforts tt orts to press tile most spiritual of 0 tin bille tin ills aits into tho 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