Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-06-11


16MHHH two we'll known Paris hospital doc
fee5s5IS4 MI tors, who, like DR.. Emilia Laurent
6Af.NS VA medical superintendent Of prisons
H4N\fR'Vl made love their special study 70
~ JgSllA N many years. With ten thOusan
G<Ze&S patients to practice On-lOvesic
people from all classes of society and of all ages
they diagnosed the case to a certainty and at last
having gathered all needed facts and proofs, ar
ready to submit their discovery to the scientif
world according to Aesculapian practice.
Love is caused by bacillus-its in the atmOs
phere, the water the soil, but like other bacli,
attacks people only when they have reached Gel
tain, or rather uncertain, age.
As one may have measles at 16 or at 65, 80 on
may ''catch" love while in short rOcks and knickeI
bOckeTs, or when the hair is white and the step IN
certain. When old folks take a disease lik
measles, that, in the nature OF things, is malad
for youngsters, it generally goes hard with them
some die, others become morally or mentally Grip
pied for the rest of their life. That the poison
love prevailing ancient hulks usually has similarl
deplOrable after affects needs no argument in thi
age.
MN. Fere and Fleury have incorporated thei
findings and opinions in two remarkable book
called Gin French) ''The Pathology OF the Emo
t1ons" and 'The Medical Side OF the Passion Q
Love-" respectively. The volumes are announces
to appear within fortnight and are sure to make
profound sensation the world over.
While the ethics Of the profession forbid the is
suing Of advance sheets of medical books, Proi
Fleury was good enough to grant your correspond
ent lengthy interview, in which he explained hi
discovery fully.
Glove is a poison, slow, seductive, malignan
poison. say so despite the fact that poe is an
others, have called love nectar and ambTOsia 10
time immemOrial," said the professor by way of in
PRODUCTION.
according to my investigations, in which al
backed up by Prof. Fere, poets and rOmanceTs hav
no business with love whateVer-lOve is simply
pathological subject which was treated altOgethe
too long from its emotional, tragcal or cOmics
side, OF from its moral or immoral aspects
'eThat in this Twentieth century of ours love i
still regarded a harmless, or harmful diVertatiOn
is one our most dangerous inheritsnces fOstered AM
kept alive by polite literature. AS a matter Q
fact, love should be under the control of the heal
board possessing full police authority, for in tn
contradiction Of all previous writings the subject
M. Fere and myself after investigating love frOu
every conceivable standpoint, found it to be moth
ing short of a disease.
''It's undoubtedly caused by pOisOn-that th
individual organism or bacillus that does the des
tructiVe work has not yet been found does not
for much from the standpoint OF medical science
Medical science has not produced the cancer bacilu
either, yet one doubts that cancer Is pOisOnOu
growth and disease.
s'The Pathology OF Emotions and The Medics
sease entirely from the medical standpoint, givin
an analysis OF its sources and describing the me
chanism OF the disease, diagnosis prOgUOsis an
possible Cure-the whole process"
Your correspondent reminded the professor tina
some poets do not refer to love as a disease.
ssMy colleague and read and re-read everythin
written on the subject by great thinkers and by pc
lite WRITER'S" replied NJ. FleuTy. "The neareE
poets ever got to the truth was in Stendhals 'COu
de Foudre' and in AlphOnse Daudet's 'SapphO
Shendal, with rare medical acumen, likens love {
the physical process of crysalzatiOna process ths
under certain conditions, may be terminated by
sudden impulse.
'tDaudet's picture gives still more pathOlOgics
aspects. His HerO's passion for an unwOrth
creature exhibits all the symptoms of case Of pOiE
Oning; like malignant fever, the disease steadil
increases and finally kills both parties.
''Here is the pathological side Of the case in
nutshell:
cat first Sappho dispeases him, Just as initis
doses of nicotine poison are rejected by the health
stomach.
s'But be gets used to her-as the stomach get
used to the tobacco poison; her charms embraC
him, as, ETC.. etc.
'sHe gets used to her and finally can't do w1thOu
her-iust as the smoker can't do Without his ciga
or pipe. Sappho and her lover despise each other
their life is spent in constant fighting and naggng
So, in his heart of hearts, the smoker despises th
weed that ensaves him aud makes him obnOxiOu
to his wife or lady-lOve perhaps.
s'Daudet's hero is ready to commit any act OF in
decency, to lower himself in his own eyes in Orde
to possess Sappho while he knows that she VII
poison bis life, just as the cigarette iend know
that the poison he puts in his stomach and intro
duces into his lungs win eventually kill him.
''But why carry the comparison iurtheri Any
one taking up Daudet's great book and reading th