The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-23

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Guitenu case and the head Of New York;
professional specialists in neurology. Ha
had answered a question BY asking one
It was entirely natural that i'll my search
for the seoret of parssis. the strange new
and deadly curse Of contemporary c~iviliza-
ton. I should 60 the expert by whom such
noteworthy pareticsa as Robert Garrett, once
president Of the Baltimore u Ohio Railroad
company; John Mccullough, Barley Camp
bell, Tony Hart, and now poor Scanlon,
have been treated. professional sti-
quette," that barrier which tradition main
tains between common sense and the med
ical practitioner, forbade DR.. Hamilton, OF
course, to speak of these and others OF
his patients of whom tho reading public
might learn with profit. But for the sake
Of the good it might do, and the mysterious
awe it might dispel from the minds of those
to whom tho foar of paresis blots the fair
est prospects in the world, Dr.. Hamilton
did consent to make this statement:
s.This plague Of our newer civilization il
not infectious like that wonderful malady
which T%hucydides Describes. 1t doesn't
strike our foremost men down over night
Or clutch its victilnD in the market place
ANU ~ MykL6I4OUk ~ ~ hpkOAIh W hAc ld4syt
its nature and symptoms ara now thor
ouRhly well understood by the expert. Bul
there is unquestionably q fascination about
it, from the psychological point Of view, on
nocount of its remarkable increase OF re-
cent years ~ well az BY reason OF the
deadly persistence with which it drag5 its
VICTIM, no matter how high or how hum
BILE his station in life, how wild or how
quiet his previous habits. down into the
grave.
miliarly spoken Of simply. AS paresis, hai
been known to medical science about nifty
years, but the fatal significance of the term
and the individuality of the awful thing il
stands for, seem only to AVE begun tc
dawn on the public vision very recently.
You are probably right in Gurlnising that
ten or fifteen years since the word 'paIoAis'
was new to Newspaper readers, and from
the first its victims seem to have had theil
the vaRueasuspi0ion, It not tho open accu-
sation, that in order to have been overtaker
by this curse OF our nerve-wearing, tissue
wasting civilization, they must first have
bsen guilty of some fearful excess, some
indescribabls Indulgence, as 81 punishment
for which, in ancient times, fire was sent
sven from beavon.
IA great deal of melodramatio nonsense
of this kind has been retailed about town
by innuendo and in stage whispers audible
almost from one BARRON to another.
s'And it is all wrong: to have pareais :
man needn't necessarily have been out
breakinely wicked. It is nc reflection on a
mans family for him to fall q victim. It.
chief cause, primarily, ID dissipation Of
some sort; it may be intellectual. vt may be
physical, but not necessarily disgracefu'
per 20. Yet = very large proportion Of
cases of paresis are due to a malady un.
m~entionable, except in professional treat
Uses.
How does drinking, pure and simple,
result in paresis? Simple enough. Excess.
sive use Of alcoholic stimulants produces
repeated congestion of the brain, and sc
weskens and diseases the blood vessels shat
they naturally develop paresis. It is the
curse of our modern civilization, the mos
fatal and mysterious of any known to med
ical science"
Here was richness, to begin with. Re-
peatsd Katzenjammer might actually end
in pnresis!
DR.. George De Forest Smith has beer
called in as an alienist to see John Nc
Cullough. Tony Hart, Scsnlon and Others
of New York's m%outnfully prominent mus
I ter roll of paretics.
sit is a mistake said DR.. Smith, ''to in
fer. as so many seem thouRhtlessly to have