Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-01 | Page 45 | Love is a Poison; You Can be Vaccinated for It

Love Is a Poison; You Can Be Vaccinated for It I OXE noted French physician , Dr. Maurice de Fleury, has discovered discov-ered that love Is a poison, and another, Jules Oheron, has prepared a serum for the cure of it. Dr. de Fleury, who is a noted specialist spe-cialist on mental and nervous diseases, dis-eases, in a new book says that love Is a form of intoxication to be classed with alcoholism and t the use of morphine, mor-phine, cocaine und other norve poisons. Dr. Fleury says: "The state of being In love, whether wheth-er passionately or plntonlcnlly but especially plntonlcnlly, rest assured of that with Its delusion, blindness, blundering and melancholy, Is, beyond any doubt, a condition of mental poisoning poi-soning quite comparable with the other intoxicants called voluntary. . . . It Is a poison, and acts like a poison." Dr. de Fleury's firm opinion is ih'nt pentlmental lovo ls decidedly of the hv th. Star Company. Croat Britain T same order ns the voluntary intoxications intoxi-cations described by doctors. And further and this Is glad news that lovo Is one of the mildest of thesi poisons, and that Its noxious aclon is most easily repressed. This Is the order or-der in which he places their danger: 1. Alcohol. 2. Opium and haschlsch. 3. Morphine, cocaine, ether '1. Tobacco. 5. Love, "To be morbidly in love," says Dr. Fleury, "means that the 'subject' cannot can-not live away from the person beloved, be-loved, suffers in absence, nnd is .it each parting more In love than before, more intoxicated thnn ever." Dr. Fleury took such victims nnd experimented with them. Ho applied the process of demonstration which ls used in the natural sciences. Ho traced the curve of love fever as the curve of typhoid is traced. lie made tlffhts Tlescvod. a chnrr, or temperature sheet, checked check-ed the subject's nervous condition and so was nble to see exactly how badly the victim was suffering. One patient was hopelessly, madly in love. He tried a journey, but turned back. His will was not his own. It would not act. Dr. Fleury prescribed a treatment of isolation and special tonics for the nervous system .according to their chart, variations. The pntlent hesitated for ten days, and then, after "a frightful scene," he yielded. Dr. Fleury sent him to a hydropathic establishment, and he got the patient to sign an agreement not to leave the house without leave. Dr. Fleury also had the co-operation of the woman in the case. "As morphine Is given in doses." ho says, "so I dosed this man. The first week he went to see the woman every1 other day, the second week he saw her twice, 1ie t1'1 n her r-option day at. 5 o'clock, only In the presence jH of others. Then, without warning; I stopped his going out and kept him as though in prison, uutil his cure was complete. "At first it was terrible. He cried, jl "struggled, reproached me furiously, declared he would apply to the police and have me shut up In my turn for violntlon of liberty. He Implored, jl wept, tried all sorts of tricks, suffered a thousand torments. iH "He tried cunning, protested that that he was cured, but I was firm, jH being convinced that suicide would be the end of (he affair if I failed. At the end of five weeks he was ngain jH calm nnd set to work. After two 'H months he was completely cured." jH Dr. Fleury is convinced that these jH "love iutoxlcat ions" can be cured as jH morphino-manla is cured by separn- tion, humanely graduated, by electrl- 'M oil treatment, and by the serum '4 iH his colleague. Dr. Jules Cheron.