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Show REMOVING TONSILS MAY CURE INSANITY Recent announcement by an eastern surgeon of the cure of insanity by removal re-moval of diseased tonsils has brought to local attention a field of treatment which It Is claimed will prove effective in nearly !0 per .cent of all cases of Insanity. Captain J. N. Dolph. visiting field director di-rector of Red Cross military relief, and a medical student, slated last night that the removal of diseased tonsl'.s as a cure for Insanity was not a new theory to science. He recalled that this theory was advanced a number of years ago and the man who advanced It was rromptly pronounced pro-nounced "insane" himself for daring to suggest It. Hut recently some attention has been given to the theory and some experiments have been conducted which seem to establish Us soundness. In discussing the matter Captain Dolph said: ' "This is nothing new to the scientific world, for for several years a number of eminent neurologists have been studying relationships of the sympathetic nervous system to Insanity. And marry cases Of mental aberration arc now being cured by surgical uperatlons to relieve pressure on the sympathetic nerves, which luvs been found to cause derangement "The sympathetic nervous system, unlike un-like the cerehro-splnal nervous system. has only come Into Its own as a matter of study of late. 'lt Is deeply imbedded In the human frame and only comes near enough to the surface to be affected much by pres- j sure In two places, the nasal and mouth cavities and the pelvic region. Operations for removal of nose obstructions, tonsils, growths in tho pelvic region and even the simple dilation of the sph ncter muscle are being performed with remarkable results, re-sults, i me cft.-c of Insanity of t. enty years' duration cleared up In several days iifter a simple (urgical opera t Ion and It Is now claimed that n per cent of all Insanity. Including paranoia and dementi! demen-ti! prarcox can be cured. The only cases In which there Is no hope are those where there Is an act ua deterioration of the Hplnal cord, such ns occurs In general paresis of the Insane. "To lllustnite the effect of pressure on the sympathetic nervous s"wtcm 1 know of nn operation performed bv Ir. 11. P. Hklle. leading allcnlM of Chicago, during Which, at one point, the patient ceased breathing and It was f'Hind that whenever when-ever a certain musclo was touched, during dur-ing I ho opet at Ion. breathing automatically automati-cally flopped and when the pressure was released the pal lent breathed nuain regularly. regu-larly. This was repeated several times and fway with tho same result." At Crystal Springs sanitarium, near Chl-i-ann, two and three operations a day are now being performed for tho relief of Insanity and It Is reported that hlghlv satisfactory results are being achieved. |
