| Show LARGE ENDOWMENT TO 10 HELP INSANE Henry Phipps Gives I for New Mental Hospital at Johns Hopkins I NEW THEORY IS ADVANCED I I Insanity May Be the Fault of L Blood I Instead of Brain I. I New York YorI July 1 12 A A virtually new school of m medical science clence Incalculable c in Its Us Importance Is Js foreshadowed L O owed II In 11 the gift Ift b by Henry Phipps of to to the ho Johns Hopkins university uni Co for l' l tho the stud study of or insanity I. I Has Made Other li Mr Phipps has figured gule in a a. number number num num- ber pf Or bequests that had for their theil aim the amelioration of physical dis- dis orders Ho He Hee gave e to foun found foundS S the Phipps Institute for tuberculosis research In Philadelphia But the girt gift to 10 the Baltimore institute Is perhaps even o more mOle Important from the fact fac that It means the tho beginning of a treatment treat p o ment on a big scale of or tho those o mentally unsound and antI Its humanitarian effects should be far fal reaching reaching- r W The purpose of or tho tIme institution which Mr Phi Phipps has founded will vIll be to devote dc de- de ep e- e p vote ot special attention to the time work o or of k prevention which necessarily Includes Include 4 t th the ability to make correct diagnosis of these thes forms fornis of or disease which upset upset the brain The donation provided pro for or tho lie occupancy occupancy oc oc- oc- oc of or a story four building building- to ac ac- ac- ac I. I sixty patients with rooms for or private patients and modern apparatus In ad addition the tho bequest will rIll permit the tho employment of experts o of the thc first order as doctors an and nurses One of or the great recent discoveries disco as t to the cause of m mental disease deals with the tho relieving ing of pressure upon tho ho brain Surgeons have havo found Coun that in Iii man many cases knocks sustained in ii youth led to a permanent malformation tion n of ot the skull with the result that where whelo an indentation had been made mado there was wag a pi pressure upon tho brain which when removed permitted the brain to resume its Us normal condition An All Interesting Interesting- Theory But now surgeons are arc working worlin on astill moro more astounding theory which is certain to receive attention at the time newly endowed hospital This theory I shifts the cau cause e of or insanity from tho the brain to the blood No anatomical investigation microscopic micro micro- or otherwise has lias ever er shown the least difference in the brain cell or fiber of a person dying ding Insane or 01 orthe orthe the healthy brain of a a. person d dying Jn i in an accident This had led to tho the interesting theor theory now held b by many experts that thal Insanity Is disease of the tho blood and not nol of or the lie brain braimi The They present the tho argument that thal the most flawless piece picc f of oC machinery is valueless valueless value value- less Jess without the fuel tiel that drives and andS S so that no matter how hov perfect the tho thos s brain Is in shape and size it Il is of oC no noV V i va value uc to Its owner unless the time right t l of bl blood oll bo be pumped pumped- through it Searching for Cor Infinity Germ Experiments are now being mado made with the Idea of oC discovering the lio germ of insanity in lim the thc blood Then by time tho tsam process that has banished the lie dread of diphtheria for fOl instance tho tIme development of or a serum scrum that thal will be bean bean bean an antidote the ravages of insanity through the time circulation of or the blood will be amazingly gly reduced |
