Show Daily Health Service Insanity I In Li Likel Likely to Result From P Physical ical I. I or Mental Strain By Dy DR MORRIS MORRIS' FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the he American Medical Med led teal ical Association and of or the Health Magazine Insanity means means mental disturbance There is s no single condition that can be called insanity There are arc many mental diseases divided in groups according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to their causes and their man man- In a recent recen consideration of the subject Dr H. H L. L Levin has divided the causes of at mental disease into nto two large groups the groups the predisposing Ins ing nc causes and the exciting causes The predisposing causes are those which have long existed w within the Individual in individual individual In- In or in Ills his surroundings Thus predisposing causes of tuberculosis include a constitution that gives way readily an environment that is crowded crowd crowd- ed and dark and a failure of oC proper nutrition The exciting cause is the germ serm of tuberculosis which is usually conveyed con con- I eyed from an infected person in the vicinity to one ne who is' is not infected I The exciting causes of ot mental disease are usually the immediate circumstances circumstances circum- circum stances or conditions which precipitate tate atc the actual attack Dr Levin compares the on onset ct of mental disease therefore to a stick of dynamite The Thc constitution of the stick of dynamite is a predisposing cause but it takes an electrical spark to set sel it off and to bring about an ex cx The predisposing causes of ot mental disease include certain stages in human human human hu hu- hu- hu man existence which are unbalanced stages These arc are the ages from 11 to 14 14 in which the child passes pas from adolescence to maturity and period from 45 to 55 when the body has reached the end of ot maturity and be begins begins begins be- be gins to break down Another predisposing cause of mental mental mental men men- tal disturbance is the strain of ot modern civilization The human body is not built buill to go on interminably at high speed Following a crash In the market market market mar mar- ket many human beings suffer continuously continuously con con- ly with strain and some of them succumb The exciting causes of mental disease disease dis dis- ease case also Include physical factors such as sudden infections poisons Injuries to the head that involve the brain and complete from prolonged physical strain or from hemorrhage In other instances mental derangement derangement derangement derange derange- ment follows a sudden emotional shock such as the sudden death of a loved one or a financial or social reverse A consideration of at the causes of mental disease indicates at once that many if not most of them are conI con con- I I SLIPPER COMFORT If It you are arc a woman who shops for fora a l man remember that in those leisure hours at home nothing becomes quite so good a friend as the kid house slipper with low Jaw heel built on the lines ines of comfort If U husband father brother or son puts on slippers without without with with- out changing his business suit he will want them of black or brown kid If It he enjoys the luxury of at a smoking jacket or lounging robe there here are the bright kidskins for tor contrast con con- rast in such hues as red green and bluer blue Some have alternating bands of ot two colors For travel the soft pliable liable brown kidskin slippers inthe in inho inthe the ho kid Pullman bag are still the favorite Give your our furniture a vinegar rub every once In a while To do dp this dip a soft cloth in vinegar wringing dry and wipe the furniture with it Polish with a dry cloth and you ou will get a fine gloss |