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Show WORLD ARMY HOLIDAY URGEDi EVEN HOPELESS MENTAL CASES i ARE YIELDING New Jersey Doctor Shows ; Infection Is Worse Than Heredity ASYLUM IS HOSPITAL Treatment Must Begin Early to Obtain Successful Success-ful Results I BY Kl YKD M. rETEKBl ' TPENTON N 1 April 12. Revolutionary Revolu-tionary strides 111 solving the problem of the insane bave been taken by Dr. ' Henrv h Cotton, medical director of the New Jersey State Hospital In-, eanity loses many of Its terrors in these n nga iii Cotton h is done. Proved that two OUl Ol every three incurable" cases are curable. Showed that physical disorders, such, as infected teeth and tonsils and 111-, 1 fectlons of stomach and intestines j !eu-e. more Insanity than heredity 1 Demonstrated that proper care of the health will prevent insanity ! Turned an a-ylum into a clinic, a i jail into a hospital 1 Discarded all straight jackets and other forms of mechanical restraint Rescued 1000 patients, two-thirds Of whom would he called "Incurably in-, sane." In the last three years. Reduced New Jersey's insane population, popu-lation, saving $11C000 this year. Curative and preventive measures) must oe begun early, says Dr. Cot-, ton w ho has been given to the world j the remarkable results of the work done at Trenton State Hospital in his book. "The Defective Delinquent and. I nsane " I KLY TBI Vi Ml I 1 1- BSENT1 YL Treatment 111 the first few months, or within tho first e.n is necessary. After three or four years tho case Is hopeless. "Unfortunatelj for the many chronic chron-ic patients confined in hospitals I'r the Insane today.' he says, " their dis- , use has progressed to the stage where, remedial therapy is entirely unsuccess-1 ful. There are at Trenton 000 cases. Of dementia praecox. muic of whom will ever recover. "Over 50 per cent of ihe perman- ent residents In state hospitals belong! to the dementia praecox group. Pr.ic-, tlcallv all of these cites could not only have been preonted but thelr( svmptoms arresrea anei me imiwi, if the methods Of eliminating chronic infection had been applied early in the course of the disease. There can be no excuse for failure to treat such cases In early stages now that the cause is known RELIC OI MEDN L si PERSTI-TION PERSTI-TION ' The do-nothing policy of those who continue to oppose any form of treatment, treat-ment, because they are convinced that Insanity Is hereditary and therefore inevitable in-evitable and incurable. Is a relic of medical superstition and barbarism. " insanity is Increasing in America four times as fast as population. Dr. Cotton shows by Statistics, A quarter of a million persons are In Insane asylums not counting those in almshouses, alms-houses, prisons anil reformatory. New Vort. mil Massachusetts have the most 1 insane in proportion to population, and I Arkansas, Alabama Oklahoma and . Ni w Mexico the fewest. Surgical operations to correct physical phys-ical defects have reclaimed many of I New Jersey's Insane. As against 37 j per cent discharged prior to 1 1 4 . j 77 per cent were cured In 1919, 66 , per rent In 1920 and 70 per cent in 1 1921, Elsewhere in the United Slates, says Dr Cotton, not over 25 per cent Of insane patients are sufficiently Improved Im-proved to be discharged permanently 'Hereditary Insanity exists In only a little more than one-half of the pa-j pa-j tients classed as Incurable. ' says Dr Cotton Infection is the cause oftener I than 'Insanity in the family.' LWYS FIND INFECTION 'Many cases occur In which such! (causes as loe affairs, disappointment ; In love domestic difficulties, ronlugal .disharmony and financial reserves are (considered to be tho only cause in these cases we have never failed to. : find serious and often extensive infec-, infec-, lion "Following the removal Of this In- ' fectlon. If the disease has not been of too long duration, the mental distUr-l I banee Is very apt to adjust Itself. "When proper treatment of the in-1 I sane becomes generally effective i throughout the country many putlents now doomed to life-long confinement! in hospitals for th" Insane and to a' ni. ntal darkness to which death is far preferable can and will be restored not only to mental health, but in many j cases to a life of usefulness " In terms of dollars Dr. Cotton'Bi revolutionary methods of reclaiming 1 : he Insane has saved J10j000,000 In I the 1000 cases permanently cured during the past three years Statistics I (Con tin nod "i Page Two ) i SVEN HOPELESS ! MENTAL CASES. ARE YIELDM (Continued From Page OOiM show that it costs $10,000 fOjSWl indigent ca.se 'or 1 hat v. u-thlrds of all commltBjJM for Dr Cotton's method Is a coSJ diagnostic survey of everVM He urges modern hospital fH i -., instltutlessjji ii.. laijuraloSJW .I' ll ..1 clim. s and surglcid MfJJ ., i. , . i,,..d of inoderiSjM, n rn.iy b usedB treatment of insanity. |