| Show HEALTH 0 treatment may replace insulin shocks in treating mentally ill by dr james W barton I 1 W WHEN HEN a leg pr arm is so b badly idly injured or poisoned that life is threatened the patients family does not hesitate to permit it to be removed move dby by surgery when the mind is so badly afflicted that the patient is unable to take his place in the comm community unify and the physician wishes to use the new treatment large doses of insulin that causes shock which is sometimes followed by a cure the family are aie otten often afraid to permit their loved one to undergo this method of treatment despite brilliant results in many cases there have likewise been many failures and also other cases where t the h e improvement lasted but a short tirre time the most satisfactory results have dr barton been obtained where the mental symptoms have existed tor for months instead of years what may prove effective in the treatment of these mental or behavior cases is a heart and lung stimulant which is now being tested in various parts of the world dr A M wyllie in glasgow medical journal reports his results in a series of 20 cases of dementia praecox these patients live in a persistent dream state which totally unfits them for the work cares and duties of life their scheme or system of life satisfies them however test cases show improvement there were 8 ivonen women and 12 men in dr wallies Wyl lies series of cases and physical improvement was observed in 17 those that were very much underweight gained gaining from 14 to 21 pounds in two months their appetites improved and their complexions completions complex ions became he healthier althie r these 17 patients also showed mental improvement that is they showed more common sense more ability to fac ace e the real facts of life one patient who had been mute for 10 years was enabled to speak the others became less absorbed in themselves and spoke more freely some of the patients who were previously idle were induced to occupy themselves A patient tient with profound melancholia greatly improved two with persistent stupor showed slight improvement ment I 1 am recording the above results so that families and patients themselves may be willing to undergo this treatment if so advised by their physicians it is certainly worth while owing to the simplicity and safety of the treatment it may replace treatment by insulin shock nervousness tension disrupt normal working A large industrial organization in an endeavor to find out why so many of their leading employees failed to keep their work at a high level and finally dropped out of the organization engaged a professor p ro fessor of economics to investigate he found that while domestic unhappiness ness was a big fa factor etor the great cause of failure to continue contin e work on a high standard W was as ill health jn in other words an individual with brains and ambition can goodli go only as tar far with his work or career as his body will take him and the unfortunate part of this lack of health is that so much of it is due to nervousness and tension which disrupt the normal working of the various organs recently in the journal of nervous and mental diseases sir farquhar buzzard professor of medicine university of oxford said that one third of all the sickness in great britain was due to causes cause s that were not really organic if he should be placed at the head of a great bustness business organization the first thing he be would do would be to take on a whole time medical psychologist to study his employees and their conditions in health and deal with all cases of nervous disorder as they arose the sick roll would rapidly become smal smaller smallen lei health of worker Import important alit fortunately medical schools are now so fully aware of the importance of the health of the worker to hims himself elfand and to his employer that i more mo re time is given to this subject than ever before so helpful have beeh the find findings ingsby by laboratory examinations jin ami nations eions blood count xray X ray kidney ner liver and gall bladder and other tests that there was danger that the body not the mind was receiving all the attention As an upset mind can cause an upset men t of the varlo various us organs and the body processes to the I 1 extent that heart blood vessel sto stomach michi 1 and other symptoms occur it Is only common sense that the of mind should be first treated if these symptom i aie are to be made to dis d appear copyright service |
