| Show CAUSE OF SUICIDE NIs Mf IC lIll Irom v vIt It Is Ii Interesting to 10 learn from a dis distinguished expert In III nervous derange derangements II ments In other words ord an n alienist that tho tendency to suicide In hot hill weather Is due to 10 a n sort 1011 of 0 exaggerated Most 1051 of ot us have en tho thai there wan walt wana walta a connection between and Indisposition to 10 work People 11 It who ho kill themselves not lIot only In III hot hol weather but In any other weather usually leave Ipa word wom that they lite lire arc of ot life liCe The Is III that they tho are of ot work and 1111 of oC responsibility They rebel against ordeals which all humanity hax ha to face tUt faceIn In III one form ir another and they tIe take up arms against aln t a Fen Fea of or lens real think by b opposing ln to 10 nd them Whether they the do end them th thor or not 1101 Is I a 1 question that has not nol been enlightened since Hamlets day 8 The man make hl hI own quietus has hall to 10 take the chances hon tO Hut Bul from a 1 merely mer I lIt the theory of or the Ille lallon 1 ship hIli between ss and hot hol weather Is h Interesting We are told lold that the deposition dl to IR due to 10 the tho thet relaxation t of ot the blood vessels and ond re reo du of ot tho blood pressure which hl h heat naturally causes Thus Thu the cere eft cerebral bral centers are depressed affecting th will power In most persons por lIs this pro produces duces mere mote more or 01 less 1118 pro pronounced pronounced but in persons l pre predisposed Ir disposed or In plain English con gen genItally Itally lazy la It causes anaemia of or the brain tending to This theory falls to 10 explain the fart fact already II I read noted that most mo t suicides no matter whit what the weather may ma be trac traced ed to hatred of work ork and res n Heat and Hi lis effect upon UllOn the tho cerebral centers do not lOt explain the cases cu ell of self p lt murder which occur ur during the winter months We WI may mo therefore assume ap that hot Is I Incidentally a 11 predisposing ln Incitement to suicide that In the Ih majority of or cases Ase tilt tho tem temperature has hn nothing to 10 do with It La L coupled u with must USI bo I fallen en back upon ss as the Ibe true explanation tion of ot all III suicides except In III ca rus cs where the victim ts 18 In Insane sane nl The old of ot d every case of ot was WaR n care cf of ot Insanity In but thai Ih rv f ha haR been 1011 abandoned of ot the he pre prel l of ot testimony It Acute mania sometimes causes 1 su u bui bUl In the large majority of c s she laziness am poltroonery furnish h t I evidence of motive Th lax 11 theory Is therefore lI t h r reit cen though It Is II r l to hot weather ul It f fally r rall ally all applies to nil n 1 v 1 |
