Show eminent alienists agree that clinics reveal nothing of tho tha causes of insanity ignorant dr W M X coplin director of the bureau of health and charities philadelphia of says insanity in most cases is unaccompanied causes by any perceptible change in in the brain structure tuie the brain of the patient ot 0 sanity la IV when examined under a microscope mic c shows absolutely nothing which differs in any way from the appearance of the brain of a perfectly sound by DR CARL A WICKLAND person dr A W campbell Camp boll another aut authority bority says insanity neither affects nor cisar ranges the brain structurally dr william IL 11 thompson physician to the roosevelt hospital new york has alluded to the unexpected discovery that insanity sanity iu i is tint not a disease of the brain because no anatomical investigation or otherwise can show the least difference between either cither brain cell or fiber of a person dying insane and the flip healthy brain of one killed in an accident the underlying cause that the sym symptoms indicate is ignored and this illis principally because it leads to the unpopular subject namely demoniacal or spirit obsession 0 on n the other hand research in abnormal psychology has so far advanced that it has now become feasible to transfer the insanity in given cases to a psychic sensitive who exhibits all the symptoms of the insane patient with the result that the latter is relieved this has actually been done in a number of cases and it if carried out on a large scale would soon solve the problem which confronts every state institution in the he land when the medical profession becomes willing to devote more attention to 10 the psychical side for causes more rapid progress will be made in the treatment and cure of iris insanity anity |