Show Daily Health fO- fO o- o Service o so oBy By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of ot the American Medical Med I 5 ical feal Association and of ot the Health Magazine I Memory is so valuable an attribute to success that authorities in conditions condi condi- of the mind have given iven it most careful consideration and study I Memory is early in life If It f the portions of the brain involved In memo memory arc are Injured by disease or physical damage or if they arc are af affected af- af by the changes that come on with old age memory begins to weaken The changes associated as with withold old age involve in some cases hardening hardening hard hard- ening of ot the thc arteries and a diminIshing dimin- dimin e circulation of blood to the parts of the brain that take care of memory t There arc many people who only apparently pp are unable to remember 1 well This however is the result t of mindedness absent-mindedness and f pation l k and of the failure to give adequate adequate ade- ade quate attention rather than any disorder disorder dis- dis v order of the memory There are arc j moreover many people who have a in faculty cu It for remembering f r highly developed through training 1 i and nad who arc are thereby more successful success- success t r ful in occupations in which memory J js is s an important attribute r Doctor Sanger Brown Bro points out that persons past middle middle- age who i I do not remember as well as formerly need have no fear that the condition t is progressive It is merely a part of Df the general decline in mental vigor igor end keenness of or attention which occurs occurs oc- oc f curs in advancing years cars i l Elderly persons frequently repeat J 1 the same story appear to exaggerate f facts and in other ways show losses f of Df memory for which they are in no noway noway noway way responsible It is important f that this lack of responsibility f should be recognized b by those who 1 pass in judgment on the acts of the I elderly I The type of loss of memory that is most serious is that which occurs suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly and is accompanied by sion Zion Such loss of memory may be beI I rapidly progressive and associated ted with the beginning of mental menial disease Hardening of the arteries of the brain the excessive use of alcohol and chronic inflammation of the brain tissue may bring about changes which have serious effects on the ability to remember People who are disturbed should be Informed that there is no reason to believe that gradual failure of memory nemory indicates the thc beginning of in in- in sanity Such people need only good advice in mental hygiene |