Show an epileptic CC colony A shot choit t time ago I 1 visited the bethel epileptic colony it at bielefeld in the province of westphalia germany it is now nearly twenty years since pastor i von dodo agli a lutheran clergyman purchased a farmhouse and with four epileptics established here a colony Irl ilch for nobility of conception and successful results ts lias bas nowhere an equal from this small beginning there lias has been a gradual growth until today there here are over epileptic patients and it more than sixty sisty houses upon tile farm the founder had long considered the alio unhappy lot of these unfortunates unfortunate who are arc usually burdens to their families against m horn hom tile public schools are closed horn none will employ in shops or apprentices to 16 trades and who are often necessarily de 1 paired of social with their fellows bythe by alio nature of their malady or find an asa asylum only in institutions for idiots or in insane ane it seemed to him beasi tile ble to create a refuge where liese suffer i ors nii might lit bo be cured if curable might have a home it recovery acro v ere impossible might acain trades and the great majority become educated useful and industrious citizens visitors are deeply impressed with the happiness contentment and prosperity everywhere every v cicro apparent among tile alio inhabitants of this little c epileptic world no longer an ail experiment it ad answers ners the lie previously unanswerable sw objections to such aagre aggregations adiong since its foundation more that than 1 2000 patients leave lave been treated here more than cured and more than been discharged I 1 improved the employments in this institution are arc numerous and varied work not only ameliorates ameliorated tho alio mental and physical con condition of epileptics but the incurably afflicted are provided with occupations which bich they are not permitted ebe where to follow A school instruction to some pupils of both sexes all branches are taught tau glit dr frederick I 1 peterson son in ill medical 5 journal |