Show Up iene 0 n Stern erv e 0 Science Service Service Mental Ex Patient Warns Dissipation JL 1 Leads to Collapse o a se Shun ShUll Bad Temper Drink and Nests Love-Nests He Says By MARJORIE l VAN DE WATER VATER Science Service Staff Writer N New ew York Bad temper j greed and overweening ambition ambition ambition ambi ambi- tion are blamed for the bringing bringing bringing bring bring- ing on of mental disease by Henry Collins Brown founder an-founder of the Museum of the City of New York himself I Ia a patient for about three years I in a state hospital for mental I patients and now recovered Mr Browns Brown's own breakdown occurred occurred occurred oc oc- oc- oc when at the age of sixty- sixty five he was removed from the museum museum museum mu mu- seum in which were tied up all his hopes and dreams and he was replaced replaced replaced re re- re- re placed by a u younger man He did not lose his mind did not become become become be be- come confused in his thoughts but buthe buthe buthe he entered a long period of depression depression depression depres depres- sion during which he ceaselessly paced the floor without rest or even evena a sense of fatigue Love Nests Liquor Blamed Early in my sojourn I became profoundly impressed with the large number of cases that were what I classed as preventable Mr l Brown said in summing up these impressions impressions impressions in A Mind Mislaid published published published pub pub- by Dutton That is to say they were the result of causes that could be avoided They were the direct and natural consequences of the risks deliberately chosen by the patients themselves And of course when things went wrong as they invariably did one or two persons persons persons per per- sons smashed up as a consequence Philandering and excessive drinking furnished the largest contingent contingent contingent con con- of these casualties Mr Brown declared Love nests rear nothing but cuckoos That is a piece of bughouse bughouse bughouse bug house philosophy worth remember remember- ing Particularly Mr Brown warns against the dangers mental as well as physical of intense anger Self Control Not Easy We Ve have all known men who allow allow allow al al- al- al low themselves to get in a towering rage over some very trivial matter matter matter mat mat- ter said Mr Brown Perhaps if that man knew that he might snap one of the numerous delicate tissues of the brain causing him to spend his old age in an insane asylum he might very readily learn to control control control con con- himself Now self-control self is not an easy matter Today I can control myself but who wants to go through what I did to learn a lesson that can be acquired without all that hideous torment and suffering I often think a few weeks spent in an insane asylum would be the greatest panacea for bad temper that could be devised |