Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-05-16
THOUGHT MICROBES.
Sorrow and Disappointment as Disease
 for the Doctors.


 It is claimed by some of the more ad- vanced of modern writers that excesses of all sorts are produced by morbid condition of the mind, brought about by the presence of microbes in uHdue numbers From tuberculosis to tenn. per, from murder to melancholia, these theorists declare that microbes are the cause of all conditions anywhere out. side of the normal. And maybe the day will come when these people will be found not so far from the right as scoffers now profess to believe. Those who dive deep into the hidden myste- ries of existence find many quaint and curious things not seen by average eyes. There is an invisible, intangible, mental as well as a material micro scope, and they who understand it's handling and adjustment learn much of interest, much that is suppressed because of the storm of ridicule that it would provoke, and which for this req, son they care nothing about exhibiting to the outer world.
 1t is no secret to many persons of e1- treme temperament that q thought mi= crobe can be so increased and multi piled that it dominates not only the en- tire mental but physical system. There are cases where the memory takes pos session of the individual; sudden flash lights the fire of thought; suggestion opens the door of the past and all con ditiens are right for an absolute over- whelming of the entire being with this living tide. And many doctors would at once diagnose the malady as mala- ria, nervous fever, depression of tha vital forces, or in some eases infiamma. tion of the brain. This state of affairs, simple enough at the outset and char acterized by little fever, a slightly accelerated pulse. a trifing flush of the checks and like indications increase with rapidity until the sufferer is in a condition bordering on mental distrae= l tion. The doctor comes in, pfeseribes aPaHghts and a fever regimen, reduces the diet, orders cooling applications and goes away much worried lest the patient runs into brain fever or some new complaint with an unpronounce- able name and fatal termination Had 1 this professional adviser of the sick and suffering the power to use the mental microscope, it would take him but 6 short tiEae te discover that the malady was not in any sense physical or depend ent upon any of the bodily functions. He would find hordes of bacillt, disap- pointment microbes, unsatisted ambi- ton germs infinitesimal in themselves but in the aggregate forming an i'm mense army of devouring adversaries slowly consuming the life forces ot their helpless victims. Just what they feed upon no one has as yet been able tq determine; but that they speedily sap the vital forces, those who have suffered in this way know but too well, although they may not know the cause.
 If, instead of norphia, tonies and anti-malarials and anodynes, they could take the suffering one from pres ent environments, start a new train of thought, awaken other interests stronger for the moment than the in vading forces. and bring back the de parted delights or some that would to an extent fill their place. the dealing out of drugs would be superseded by an entirely different form of practice.
 But ths day of this enlightenment has not yet come. May be in the far-off hereafter our doctors will be philoso- phers as we'll, and instead of conhnine themselves strictly to the material, they will search for the hidden sources of the sorrow and care, that more thau any other cause destroys the best and brightest members of the humap fami, ilv.--N & Stowell. in \. Y, Ledger