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Show ovr THE MUSICAL DOCTOR. Radio fans will be pleased to learn that music has medicinal powers, ac-i cording to Dr. Alexander Lambert of, Bellevue hospital. New York City. Discussing the therapeutical value of music, he makes out such a good case that the audience cheers and VOtes enough money to install a super- j radiophone in Bellevue. Says Dr. Lam-' bert : "Music can ease the strain of life forj a great number of patients, but not . for all It calls up cheerful thoughts 1 and lessens monotony, and it is of; enormous benefit to the nervously I broken down, to children, and lo most, surgical cases, for music appeals more j to the emotions than to reason. "People differ, not in opinion but in 1 stages of intellectual and spiritual de-! velopment So some want jazz and some want fugue , and neither is1 soothed by the music that pleases the) other Music might heal or injure Wherever It cheers. Ihough, it heals ' Jazz might cure one dying person and kill another, thick with the dusl of culture What's one man's meat is another's poison Maybe you have visions of a new medical fod. Impending, psychoanalysis psychoanaly-sis and endocrine gland doctoring shoved aside to make way for a new school of doctors armed with saxo phones and fiddles Fear not, the medicinal value of music is nothing new. It was discussed enthusiastically by Leading European physicians, in the Philosophical Magazine for May. iso; Among great practitioners who prescribed pre-scribed music were Dusnu,, Burette De Malran and Blanchini Some of them went as far as to be lieve that music could cure sciatic, rheumatism But, in the main, they believed that music's greatest medical powers were in diverting the atten lion, soothing the nerves, making peo pie forget imaginary ailments, and curing cur-ing the insane. You recall, further back, how David ' was employed In his youth to cure Saul's mental derangement by harp playing. Varro thought music good for goui The ancients believed fever ould be cured by singing, plague by a lyre and deafness by proper blasting with a I rumpet. The commonest cause of sickness Is the body's organs getting out of harmony har-mony with each other. Back of this is inharmonious nervous condition or unbalanced functioning of endocrine glands. And, back of that, la inharmonious 1 thought. .Music puts the soul in tune, eases the aching brain, soothes the nerves II Is not far from those to bodily liar mony health. This, of course, drifts Into hypnotism, like the charmed cobra co-bra Bwaying to the Hindu juggler's reed flute The radio craze may do the national health more good than a freight train-ful train-ful of quinine, calomel and sassafras tea, provided it doesn't circulate too much jazz the medical opium |