Eureka Reporter | 1906-05-04 | Page 5 | Music as a Therapeutic

MUSIC AS A therapeutic mental and phys cal ills may be re I 1 eved by its A d F S kennedy says that much as instance alu tn many be derived from the intelligent use ot music either vocal or instrumental as a therapeutic adjunct melancholia insomnia hysteria family affliction business reverses delirium pain fa tigue mental or physical will all be helped by the beneficial influence 1 music rightly used As a pos opera the measure it would have an un doubted influence for good in taking the patient s mind from his bodily distress iao also could painless dentistry be relieved of some of Us pain and distress by the quieting influence ot music which would as has been ply demonstrated produce a pleas anter mental influence during the ad ministration of nitrous oxides or other ani esthetic A german writer recent ly stated february 1904 that in a number of test cases in which music was provided during the adminis tra alon of the an aesthetic there was an absence of distress and resistance on the part of the patient also an absence or reduction of the post oper arlve nausea under the same circum stances to be advantageous the nature ot the composition must be carefully se lecter with a view to the needs of the individual case and the execution must be as nearly faultless as ble