The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-02-13

yet we do know That medical treat
ment, when scientifically and judi.
ciously administered has great pc.
tency in restoring many suffering
from perverted functions of thought to
a normal condition, and greatly bcne.
fitting Others to such degree that
they are enabled to pass tho remain
der of their days at their homes with
their friends.
Treatment is addressed to the build
ing up of their physical system to
the highest degree possible Produce
normal condition of all the organs
of the body, and see that their Sc
cretions and excretions are regular.
ly performed, and when you have done
this you have accomplished all that
drugs will do
And this supplemented, or we might
say. reinforced by proper care and
management gives these unfortunates
their best and only chance of re,
covery.
Care. First home; and this should
be located in healthy community,
without regard to political pull or com.
mercial center, where 1t is free from
malarial influences as possible. where
the ground is light and porous, and
where there is an unlimited and mex.
haustable supply of pure, fresh water,
For cleanliness is SO closely allied
to godliness. that to divorce them is
to commit fragrant violation of both
moral and physical law, and its con.
struction should be In harmony with
the best known arrangement for per.
feet sanitation,
Its furniture should be as nearly
antiseptic as possible. and every room
accessible to pure air at all times, and
sunlight during the entire day.
The patients should be supplied
with a sufficient amount of pure food,
we'll cooked and served at regular in.
tervals, and of variety sufficient
to maintain a healthy appetite
Furnished with suitable clothing to
make them comfortable at all times
in our changable climate. and placed
under constant care of carefully
selected attendants, well trained in
their difficult and important duties
Moral, Industrious, watchful, temper
ate in all things. fairly educated, and
above all, possessing absolute self
control and besides these, suifi.
eient number of trained nurses to
take care of those physically sick.
All the physical exercise they are
able to take should be allowed. and
amusements should be provided for
them so as to change the current of
their perverted thoughts, and as far
as possible make them feel that every
officer and employee are their com
panions and not their keepers.
Besides medical superintendent
there should be one physician for ev
cry two hundred and fifty patients;
warm hearted and broad minded,
whose sympathies take hold of the
most vicious as well as the milder
cases under his care. His touch
should be as gentle as a mothers. his
words to his patients like that Of a
father, and his discipline over his
attendants like that Of Bonaparte.
In short, the care and treatment ought
to he such that those who recover
and return to their friends, will carry
with them the fondest recolections
of their sojourn in the asylum. and
remember their physician and attend.
ants as so many angels Of mercy who
lowered about them while they walked
through the shadows Of their sad af.
Fiction.
Gentlemen of the Convention: !
have feebly and briefly given my
thoughts upon the subject assigned
me feeling that as philanthropists as
well as legal conservators OF these un.
fortunate fellow beings, you will, by
every means in your power devise
proper arrangements for the care and
cure of the wards OF the common
wealth.
For hard and thorny indeed viii be
the pillow of the individual who feels
that he has been direlict in his duty
those who so richly deserve
and so greatly need our care and pro
lection.