Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-02-03
gl'SDC AS MEDICINE.
.s,elo or TONlNG UP A SICK
IAN nc MAY BE TUNED UP"

=. Inappropriate for Certain Ills.
o-,,s4o, Taychanow, of st. Peters
.., Iecsured recently on 1.-THE Inhu-
,sor Nnsic on the Human Organism, -
~ affirmed that music is of the great
.aryice 10 the treatment of disease,
"A thst hy the proper use of music,
a. Us,em can he tuned" like a musical
eminent. Sufferers from nerve dis
Dor, can, he states, be soothed by
nr.r hn' the remedy must be employed
rib discrimination, as in some cases it
,,,lura, IA effect contrary to that
4 rbrh /. Intended.
WE'LL opiUm will do that, and so will
,,rv other drugs when they are not
.-.sl with discrimination. so that is
,LsraragemCnt to the therapeutic vir-
.so,music. Soft Professor Tarchanow
s-,bt-snd he is scientific mantle
l,,r u muHcal doctor, such as was
,gfs-7e4 on Sir Arthur Sullivan, is
~ likely 60 have a new significance.
p, subject opens mp rather a broad
TE.
EgsH, will college for such musical
,,-oys Ie located? Where can a man
,sIrinr musical medicine learn the
s,t q some heroic remedy, like the
-anbone, without originating a scourge
nervous diseases? 1t is possible. how
,rer to build eAe college in the middle
A some vast, uninhabited tract, where
r3iessors. students and patients can
Esra,Iy wrcstls with the problem
There are Of course only n certain
rrnJer Of musical instruments. viii
,me,cal doctor use all of them in his
rlc,ice. will they make up his pharma-
nppsa, or will he become a specialist
/ on one instrument, a first violinist, so to
rak. in the grand orchestra Of the pro-
is.io.; II he becomes a specialist he
must treat different diseases by admin
parng different tunes. The swan song
hym "Lohengviu" would naturally have
one efect upon q man in a fit; Tara.
a.5oom-de,ay" another. Professor Tar
r@aow attributes the frequent failure
Of music to cure diseases to its being
used q, the wrong tiIne and in unsuita.
aec,ses Soof course the young must
cal practitioner will exercise the incest
ulment He can lay down some
standard rules ike Wagner in case of
a1p0r, or "OhenbaCn in melancholia,"
bot he will never dream of giving IL
Owe Ten Dollars to O'Grady," when an
unfortunate has taken arsenic with sui
dl intent, or of prescribing the newest
ballet muyi" for a girl suffering with St
yrUs dance
The Russian Eavant expressed the con.
Tcu51 that time will come when mu-
8. I'm the hands Of scientifically trained
physicians" will be acknowledged to be
lagent of great power for the relief Of
suffering II would be now if it were
IN the hands Of scientifically trained
PHYSICIANS Their training has taught
them to detect human suffering. They
can 500 a man vince when his ear is
shocked, they can see him squirln and
tvS,-,uiiing all the time-while some
Ue sings The Last Rose of Summer"
nloi tune They can in fact hear his
teeth crate when his favorite air is
played false Can the ordinary young
person at the piano do that; can the
leader Of the German band: can the fell
low with the hand orgar;
How can music fail to relieve" ex-
claims Iaychauow, when a series Of
eases has proved that it is the the most
powerful regulator of mems moods and
feelings which dominate many sides Of
TOE psychical and physical life Of. the
csanism| 4 profane critic might sug-
se' that musicians as a class do not ex-
snpliy that perfect regulation" Of
1er emotions which might be expected.
.aepote,soF has doubtless never seen
'T0 baudmasteTs pulling each others
lAr IN tight about the proper tempo
0 the Dead March in Saul. 1t is even
possible that Re has never heard of rival
PIMA douAay scratching and clawing.
Oh, this failure TO regulate the emotions
|mo'lclsn' may ho the result Of the
@.esance Degottea Of overuse. The same
Jung hsppcaE In the medicine of the
PRESENT day. An old morphia fend can
~ae enough Of the drug TO kill dozen
ordinary mea. Then there are Of course
nose StyrianS who, beginning to take ar.
%1lc Whea they are young, are in years
'Cs TO eat j! rs some people do garlic.
however VII this may be, the sedative
sAscI OF music CA patients in whom the
Instrument Of mind is like sweet bells
NAs'el oui Of tune and harsh" is uni
rr"'a'ly admitted. Canon Hartford, an
LAslshman, has reported clinical ex-
E'Iments made by the st. Cecilia guild
s sIa' snow that il has a distinctly bene-
r ~ effect in certain cases Of insomnia.
uy'ei too, one would think the tune
suP'oyed would have to be chosen with
very nice Judgment.
Music doubtless will relieve pain,
!" Uy acting on tho nerve csnters, but
X Wstracting tho sufferers attention.
s suS Is the true kela for music as a
@ %9,apeotc agency, and it is improbable
-'' ever can DO more. Orpheus made
,r ,S' ana mountains dance to his lutte,
b.. I tAe Pied PipeT's music purged
SI 1'.SIin OF rats, but il Is very doubtful
%-,'ner Canon Hartford will ever
ia~- u, away a tumOr or rid tubercu-
Sor,.lu nS OF 6acilh. Within limits,