Show ty cured b the knife dr N S owensby of baltimore has created something of a stir in medical circles by asserting that dementia praecox pr precocious insanity had been cured in recent cases by the use of the knife to relieve the thyroid gland of an excess of certain chem icalas in the blood or the secretions out of five cases so treated all but one are said to have recovered where as the disease has generally been re carded as incurable dr a 0 the jefferson medical college how ever says that the theory on which owensby operated has not been proved |