Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-02-27
JEALOUSY IS 4 DISEASE.
Dr. George F. shrady Describes
 It's Physical Result.
Lends to Insanity-One of the Most Common Emotions Among Man kind ana a Very Dangerous
 One to Indulge In.
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 There has been q revival of interest in the subject of jealousy both in Eng land and in America recently, because of occurrences which call attention to it as a disease. In England, we'll known authority has described a pecu- liar ease coming within his profession al experience; while in America startling homicide, caused by a step mothers jealousy is too commonly treated with levity by the minimizing. It is in most cases, according to the best medical authorities, either a dis case which results in insanity or manifestation of insanity itself.
 In the English case the physician re ports that he was called in by woman who told him that she was extremely jealous of her husband, and that if something were not given to relieve her she feared she would go out of her mind; and then, in the presence of the l physician, she quarreled with her hus- band over her charges of infidelity, un- til she went into spasms. These spasms were net epileptic, and the physician could only believe that they were the result of hysteria, due to the condition which the patient had described to him. The symptom he diagnosed as that of a mind diseased by breeding over real or imagined wrongs.
 Dr. George E. Shrady, the editor of the Medical Record, says that jealousy is a very common form of disease, and one in which physicians are often con suited.
 .Afen and women have some hesi- tancy in consulting a physician about the manifestations of jealousy" said Dr. shrady, "beeaase - tfe, t.>tren4. confidential character of the ailment. ] The Ia.ae it very seldom comes under the physicians eye directly, as in the English case quoted. But il often pro- duces physical conditions which make the services of q physician necessary and in this way cases of jealousy come under his observation. It also hap pens that ease is called 10 the phy sician's attention by some one other than thc patient. Jealousy IS sometimes a manifestation of insanity. Dr. Theo- dore F. Kellogg, who is one of the high est authorities on tbe subject. says in his book on insanity: Love and ioal= ousv are complex emotions, and the subject Of them always presents aH area of intense TUlHerabiiity. Disap- pointed love is in woman aa occasional cause of a Psyehosis-s insanity x'=but this occurrence in men is very rare and it is then to De attributed to wounded pride rather than ta unrequited love. Jealousy is q veritable demon among emotions. and there is probably ITO I keener torment than the fcndish rack of jealousy, to which the squci is not infrequently suicide. homicide or in= sanity
 T do not agree with Dr. Kellogg's conclusions about men, continued Dr. Shradx Men are as seuSitiHeaS wom- cn to the influence of jealousy and disappointed love; but man cannot wear his heart upon his sleeve be cause he must come in contact with the world in bis effort to earn his bread. However, the seriousness with which Dr. Kellogg treats jealousy is none too great. The fact that the Lancet has taken the subject up shows what gray ity it possesses for the medical pro- fessioH; and whatever of fun is pol1ed at it in the comic papers and in eon- versation, jealousy is a matter to which too much earnest thought cannot be given.
 'Is jealousy caused by physical con ditions and subject to correction indi- reetly through mcdieinas2'' asked.
 ''Jeatousy can be traced to physical conditions, and it also creates diseases or physical ailments. X woman who is pregnant may be insanely jealous. X man whose liver is cut of order finds his mind depressed, and in that nor 1 bid condition may become casilEa prev to unreasouing jealousy. GVspcptic may become the victim of jealousy traeeab.e D purely physical causes But on the other hand jealousy ire i quently creates such troubles as dVs- pepsia, heart disease, and so on Jn this respect it acts much as disappoint- ment in love or failure in business acts with some persons. It's first effect is usually d feeling as though the bottom of the stomach had dropped away, ac- companied, perhaps, by sense of nausea. At the same time. it is likely to affect the heart action. because the heart and the stomach are served by the same set of nerves. This feeling continuing, causes loss of appetite, heart failure and insomnia. A man who has failed i'll business is usually knocked out completely, to use a popular phrase. He often reaches a dangerous physical condition as the re- suit of the mental depression caused by his misfortuEes Both men and wo- men are similarly affected by disap- pointment in love. Me are accustomed to make light of this, but it is really most serious matter, in many cases af- fecting all the physical functions. 1 have known young girls to be broken down completely by the segering of an engagements; and while there is liter ally nc such thing aa broken heart, death has resulted in many cases from i fha flpurecsi9p f,4HSe1 hw 1fcnupCia+-