Arizona republican., 1895-11-22
LECTURES OF DR. FRITZ Large Audiences Attend
 Both. Talked Separately to Men and
 Women. Many Stayed Behind to Speak to the Physician of Their
 Ills.

Dr. J. A. Fritz, the noted physiolo- gist, lectured to a large crowd of ladies yesterday afternoon at the opera house. His lecture was given under the aus pices of the Arizona Medical institute in the Monihon block.
 Dr. Fritz has travelled the entire civ ilized globe and his lectures are fa- nous.
 So interested was his audience that after the lecture several women who were present immediately placed them selves under his treatment.
 He lectured last night to a packed house of gentlemen and chose as his subject Thought" and the wonders of the nerve centers. So clearly and lucid ly did he explain matters that every one present could not but understand every word he uttered. For over one hour he spoke and no one felt dull or uninterested. Dr. Fritz dwelt on the instinct of parental affection in all an- imals He traced it up in all its de yeTopments, as the animal race, and then spoke of it's eliminating power in man. The influences that mothers and fathers should exert over their children were next touched on. The re- responsibilities of percentage, in forming the mind and developing the instincts of the coming generation have evidently very gravely impressed the lecturer, and in turn he strove to inn press his audience and in this he was most successful.
 He. showed the process of develop ment in the skull. of which he had many from the ape to man. He has a whole gallery of diagrams and pie lures and with these illus trated as he proceeded with his lecture. He clearly explained the wonderful system of telegraphy in the human system and which has its vital force in the brain, the spinal column being the principal means of trans mission to various parts of the anat- omy. He is firm believer in cleo tricity and said that he had little doubt that within few years med ical science would be almost revolutionized through the more general application of electricity as a remedial agent. Transmission of thought, a mental telegraphy, he also firmly believes in and thinks it will not be many years before it will be generally practiced, but that yet it is new to science. He recited a few in cidents where the thoughts of a person were transmitted to another some distance away and who had no previous knowledge of the case.
 In speaking of mans memory he said that the depressions in skull were the reasons of people wanting the particular faculty which was in that part of the brain where the de- pression occurred. He took the skull of a man with a defective memory as an instance The depression in the skull which he exhibited was situated in the center of the forehead. If that could be trepanned, a portion of the skull removed so as to allow the brain in that quarter freer play, there is no doubt but that the man would have had much superior memory-probably an abnormal one.
 The doctors lecture covered a va rieity of subjects which, however, led to only one thing-health. The in discretions of youth, such as smoking and drinking, he dwelled on at length and his word pictures of the horrors of the insane asylum and an early death convinced many in the audience. One young man was heard to remark to a companion that he would never smoke another cigarette
 Those who attended felt amply re- paid and all were impressed with Dr. F'ritzs profundity of knowledge, as well as the clear and concise way in which he explained matters. During the lec ture he related a few stories that were apropos of the subject, but which were amusing, as well as instructive. As soon as the lecture was over several persons crowded around the eminent physiologist for advice, which he freely gave.
 Dr. Fritz has associated himself with Dr. Prosser of the Arizona Medical institute, who is already famous in the valley because of the many people heI has cured. Those who wish advice in regard to health cannot do better than call on these two noted physicians.
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