The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-02-13
The Closing Session Marked BY
Brilliant rhetorical Efforts.
MUCH BUSINESS TRANSACTED
During the Closing HOursOi the Convention.
The Bulletin Highly COmplimented.
The Speeches.

members of the legislature in behalf
of large appropriations for the com
pletion of the st. Charles Juvenile
School at Geneva.
Judge Tuthill is forceful speaker
and his auditors evidenced deep in
terest in his discourse and when he
had finished greeted him with liberal
aplauses mingled with cries of go
on, go on
Following the above d. r. Landers.
NJ d., physician in charge of the
Southern Illinois Hospital for the In.
sane at Anna, read the following paper
on Treatment and Care of the In.
| sane"
ADDRESS or o. r. LANDERS, NJ. o.
The pathology of insanity IS a diff
llcult problem, and its pathological
| anatomy is so subtle, that 1t may
well engage the ablest investigation
and thought of the specialist. For It
is to the specialts we must 20 for
even the superficial knowledge we
now have of this enemy of our species.
that, in Its uncomfortable course, laws
Its whitening hand upon the king IN
his palace or the pauper in his howell.
and spares neither age, sex, national
ity, moral or social condition of any
class between the extremes.
The number of unfortunate victims
| now writhing in its foul embrace may
readily be Appropriated when we
| think of the eight thousand in the
! hospitals for insane in our own state;
to say nothing of the number cared
for In the county aims houses, and
chose whose insanity is of such a mild
type that they are cared for at home.
Insanity is not an out.growth of
modern civilization. as some would
have us believe; else how readily
could we ascertain the cause or
causes Of its development, and by
reversal of these causes rid the hui
man family of this frightful scourge
But upon the contrary in the remotest
depths of antiquity the pages Of its
history are replete with instances of
human Madness and the miserable
outcast possessed with demon was
familiar parsonage But whose so
ciety was not courted to any great
exetnt by his more fortunate neigh.
bors; but Stunned by all as one
cursed of God for some great of.
tense, and regarded as only fit for the
society of the beasts Of the field and
the reptiles of the earth
This fact is forcibly illustrated in
the case of the Demoniac (maniac)
who dwelt among the tombs. lacerat-
ing his body with sharp stones and
could not be bound. and was an eff
fectua barrier against travel by
that thoroughfare CA case of active
mania)
And again. where the youth, who
was possessed by a demon who often
threw him into fire or water to de.
stroy him. was brought by his parents
to the Disciples of Christ, that they
might cast him out Cease of Epi-
leptic mania)
So we see that from the remotest
antiquity comes ringing down the
ages like the roaring of an approach
ing cyclone. the incoherent bah
blings and shrieks of the unfortunate
victim Of insanity. breathing sad
history Of the past. and an inauspi-
cious prophecy of the future.
This leads to the question Of
WHAT is INSANITY
by insanity of mind is meant such
arrangement of the leading functions
OF thought and feeling. aud will, to
gether or separately, as disables the
person from thinking the thoughts and
feeling the feelings. and doing the du-
ties OF the social body in. for, and by
which he lives"
Therefore If we should see a man
Of sixty years of age who has always
conducted himself in an exemplary
manner: manly and courteous in his
relations with his neighbors, always
observing the rules of propriety. go
out on the commons and try to turn a
somersault. stand upright on his head,
walk on his hands, and perchance
hurl a stone at bird as it flies before
him. we should say he was insane.
while boy Of twelve years Of age
doing the same things under the same