Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-10-28
MUSIC AS MEDICINE.
,NsreAp or ToNlNe up A SICK
MAN HE MY Sc TUNED UP"

a.. petcrsharg Some Tuues riiat would
N. tn.pproptint" tor coriuiu Ills.
Professor Tuchanow. OF st. Peters.
.rrg. lectuted recently ON "The lnfu-
,rseof Music ON the Human Organism
.,j affirmed that music IS of tine great
-, ser,ice IN tho treatment Of disease,
and that. by tho proper use OF music,
M system can be- tuned like musical
,r.frrtnent. sufferers from nerve die
o-lors can. no states, b. snothed by
,,rsic. but heremo1y must be- employed
vitb determination, as ia SOME cases 10
produces an olioct contrary W that
which IS intended.
We'll. opium will 40 that and no will
,,erv other drugs when ihDy nte 10,
.usrd with discrimination 80 that y
mo- disparugemon, 20 the therapeutic vir-
,p,of music. Soft Professor TarchauQw
tuchi--nnd he 81 a scientific man--tho
deyrcp Of musical doctor, such NJ was
conferred on Sir Arthur Sullivan. Is
y.ry likely 10 have q new significance.
Tho subject opens mp rather a broad
view
Whore will a college for such musical
doctors b. located Whore can man
stadying musical medicine learn the
erect Of some heroic remedy, like tho
trombone. without originating a scourge
Of nervous discnsaH II possible. how
eytr, TO build the college iu tho middle
OF some vast, uuinhubit"d tmct. whcro
professors. students aud patients can
literally wr'e-tle with tho problem.
There are uf course only certain
nuinhoro musical instrumcnts VIII
musical doctor use all OF them IN his
practice, will they mako mp his phnrma-
cppmia, or will he become u specialist
on one instrument, first violuist, 80 to
speak. Ia the grand orchestra of The pro-
fcssionl II he becomes % specialist ho
must trent different diseases by admin
storing different tunes. The swan song
from "Lohengrn' would naturally have
one effect upon man ia q TT; "Ta.u-
ra.bouri.de.ay" another, Professor Tar
chnnow attributes the frequent failure
OF music TO euro diseases to it's being
used ut the wrong time and in unsuiln-
bic cases. Soof COURSE tho young musi.
cal practitioner will exercise the incest
Judgment. ~ can lay down some
standard ulcSliho "Wagncr IA case Of
etipor,y or "Oneubath in mclancholia."
but he will never dream Of giving 81
Owe Ten Dollars TO O'Gradv." when au
unfortunate has taken arsenic with sui
cidal intent, or Of prescribing the newest
ballet music for q girl suffering with St.
Niius' dance.
Tho russian saynnt expressed the con-
yiction that timo will como when mu-
sic Gin the hands Of scientifically trained
physicinns' viii bo acknowledged Ia hO
an agent Of great power for the rclict OF
suffering. 1t would be now IL 1t Were
"in the hands Of scientifically trained
physicians" Their training has taught
them to detect human suffering. They
can see a man winco when his car 1.
shocked. they can see him squirm and
twist-lniling all tho timc-while some
one sings "Ihe Last Rose Of summer
out of tune. They can Ia fact hear his
teeth CRATE when his iayorito air II
played false. Can the ordinary young
person ut the piano do that; can the
leader Of the German baud; can the fell
low with the hand organ:
How can music fail to relieve" eS,
claims Tatchguow, "whcn u series Of
cases has proved that 1t Is tho the most
powerful regulator of mems moods and
feelings which dominate many sides OF
the psychical and physical liio OF Ia,
organism \ proflne critic might sug
gest that musicians ~ a clHss do not oN
enplify that perfect "rogulutiou" oI
their omou0us which might be- expected
The professor has doubtless never seer
two handmastcr4 pulling each ether
hair in tight nbout the proper temp,
OF the Dend March iu saul II ia cvci
possible that BIO lwa never heard Of rivl
prina douuas scratching and clawiug
But this fliluro 10 regulate the omotiou
Of musicians may bee tho result OF IN,
tolerance bggOIiou NJ Oycrusu. The sam,
thing happ,us IN the medicine Of thO
present day An Old inorphia fond cai
take enough ul the drug 90 KIN duaui
ordinary iiiru Then there are OF cuursl
those syriWs who, beginning 10 takear
senic when they are young, arc Ia year
able to cat it as some people do garlic.
However AN This may be-, the scduiiy,
ELECT pf music ON patients IN whom tni
instrument ~ miud Is "like sweet bell
tangled urt ~ tune ana harsh is uni
v6t-nlly admitted Canon Hartford, az
Eugli-hman, has reported clinical rA
petiments made by tine ST. Cecilia gmlj
that show that il has distinctly bgur
hcml rHrct IN Certain eases Of insomnia
Here, too, one would think the thu,
employed would have 20 ba chosen witt
very nice Judgment
Mngic doubles win relieve pain
mot hy noting ola the npryu ccutors. bu
by diHimctug mo slilortg's attention
This D. ,he tuo field l1r music as
therapeutic agency, and h is improbable
TINT Il ever can domure, Orphru- mnlt
trees aud mountains dance to his lutte
aud th3 Pied p,peyt music purge,
Hnmellu ~ ills. bat 10 Is very duubt,u
whether Canon Hartford will eve
charm away tnWot or rid q tuhercu
Ions lung Of blcllli Within limits
however music may be "a most usotu
hludmBldeu Ca medicine, and Ia mi. ug'
of NERVES itmigAl possibly hcmudr Q,
plnym important part I'm the prev utioi
ot the umuy diseases which are fosternt
II not actually cugeudrrod by depression
ant iannle Canon Hartford and hi
colleagues muy bo encouraged to pcrc
were m their efforts 90 press the
spiritual Of the tine arts into the seiyic,
ot suffering humanity. - New Norl