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Show THE AUTOMOBILE AND NERVOUS DISORDERS. The special literature of automobil-Ing automobil-Ing in its relationship to disease is very meagre and imperfect, and it. is stll necessary to read miscellaneous descriptions of cases in order to come upon the favorable or unfavorable effects ef-fects of relatively, new methods of locomotion on diseases. There is nothing specific about the motion of ' automoblllng, for It is merely a matter mat-ter of petty bhocks or vibrations such as occur In railway trains, and if automoblllng au-tomoblllng journeys appear to produce pro-duce certain effects it is quite safe to assume that railway travel will be followed by the same or similar consequences. con-sequences. At a recent meeting of the Berlin Society for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases, Oppenhelmer read a paper on habitual vertigo, from which it appeared that this condition is less, apparent to the patient when riding In automobiles or railway trains. In discussion Kron stated that he had seen the same sequence, but attributed attribut-ed it to psychic causes diBtraction of the attention. He cited the case of a rope dancer who suffered from vertigo when on the ground, but wag never bothered while in tnc air. The psychic factor is naturally In evidence evi-dence hero, and the state of affairs is paralleled by the actor who always stutters while off tho stage, but never while speaking his lines in a play. Bernhardt stated that the patient with habitual vertigo feels in better spirits on an automobile or railway journey ,and this is also true of patients pa-tients with paralysis agitans. He would attribute the favorable result to the fact that the involuntary motion mo-tion imparted by the vehicle antagonizes antago-nizes the sensations of ertigo and tremor. One of his patients with paralysis par-alysis agitans takes several rides dally on an auto-oranibus. Medical Record. rv |