The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-01

AGNES that every conceivable i'll luck has
happened to his Eastern interests, that
his case is incurable, that Janeway is
merely a polite euphemist, a theorist bent
on experiment This sort of thing comes
in spells They all have it. Worry-that
Is the name Of the disease. 1t takes hold
and racks the unfortunate victim until his
face is lined and his limbs tremble He
becomes convinced, as he has been con-
WINGED hundred times before, that he
Is about to become paralytic or hopeless
ly insane. Every CHASTITY thought that
can enter the mind of man comes to this
poor devil with the horrors. All the time
he knows that the best doctors in the
country call his trouble purely function
al, entirely durable and not even danger
Gus if properly treated. Yet the depres-
sion and terror are stronger than any as
surances. The man is unnamed. He
shakes, his lips culver, his voice trembIes
and his eyes refuse to focus properly.
sometimes this lasts a day, sometimes a
week, occasionally a month, and then in
an inexplicable fashion the spell is
broken The stricken one takes a long
breath, throws out his chest, stamps his
1eet' eats square meal and goes fishing.
SPELLS GRADUALLY SHORTEN.
In few hours he is entirely himself.
his nerves are apparently rs sound as
ever they were, his appetite excellent BY
SLOW degrees these spells of nervous cul-
lapse are shortened. In very bad cases
the depression of spirits is Of longer du-
ration than the period Of freedom from
depression. The life in the forest length
ems these periods of ease aid correspond
lngly shortenS the periods of unrest At
last the latter disappear entirely. A man
will seem to be entirely well for three
months, only to be thrown into the depths
of apprehension and terror by a return
of the old symptoms. At this stage the
seizure will be short, but usually very
acute. The patient becomes exceedingly
irascible, argumentative, unreasonable,
and subsequently apologies for having
been so. After six months of absolute
Immunity from an attack of nervousness
the cure may be considered permanent.
The Bughouse club is shortly to be
superseded by another of larger scope.
Some of the specialists in nervous diseases
of the Northwest, among them DR.. r. o.
Beard. of Minneapolis; DR.. w A Jones,
of Minneapolis: Dr. Eugene Riggs, of st.
Paul, and DR.. Leo Crafts, of the Ham
line college medical faculty, have been
sending nervous patients to the woods
for so many years now and with such
extraordinary results that they are fos
tering the establishment of state institu-
lions In the Northern wilds for the treat
ment not only of neurotic cases, but as
well Of tuberculous troubles. DR.. Beard
informed the writer of this article the
other day that the pine forests of the
North were of more benefit in treating
tuberculosis than any of the Wanted eli
mates to which hundreds of people are
being sent annually. The plan is to build
a chain Of log houses mile or two apart,
with a resident doctor to make the rounds,
and in these houses to keep large pro-
portion of the patients now annually sent
to insane asylums because there Is 10
other institutions where they can be fit
tingly treated, though they are in nc sense
insane The plan has been Endorsed by
the entire medical fraternity. and it is
quite likely to be put into effect