Show i insanity cured by the knife 1 dr N 8 ow owensby lensby of baltimore has created something of a stir in medical medica circles by asserting that dementia praecox pree cox or precocious insanity had been cured in recent cases by tho the use of tho the alfo to relieve tho the thyroid gland of an excess of certain chemicals in the blood or tho the secretions out of me cases so treated fill all but ane are said to have recovered where as the disease has geile generally rally been ro re carded as incurable Incur ablo dr of the jefferson medical college coll efio how ever says that the theory on which owensby operated has not boon been proved |