The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-10
MORAL IMPAIRMENT
Has PHYSICAL CAUSE
Specific GIycerO-P -PhOSphates
Prescribed to Restore
Normal Conditions


New York. March 1O.-Dr. John d.
Quackenbos announces that he has
found a drug which will make wicked
men good.
The doctor is a former professor Of
psychology at Columbia University,
whose psycho-therapeutic researches
have put him in the front rank among
specialists in that branch of medicine.
DR.. Quackenhos stated that observa-
ton OF hundreds OF moral and mental
detcients has convinced him that a
physical impairment invariably accom-
panied moral and mental delinquency
and that the curing of the criminal and
the incompetent is impossible until the
physical impairment is eliminated
To restore the normal condition the
specific 'gycero-phosphates is now
prescribed.
Discusses Famous Cases.
The physician made this statement
while discussing the case OF Captain
Won Goeben the German army officer,
who slew Major Won Schoenbeck be-
cause of infatuation for the latters
wife and the npleaded that mesmerism
and witchcraft exerted by the woman
had forced him to commit the murder
DR.. Quackenbos also discussed teh
case of Marquis of Townsend. said to
be under the hypnotic control Of Rev
Arthur Robins. curate OF a fashionable
London church The marquis is al
legged to have parted with priceless
heirlooms, much money and other
things of value and to have submitted
TO estrangement from his wife
through the subtle influence OF the
hypnotic curato
In te case Of the German army Of
ficer Dr. Quackenbos SAID that there
Otherwise, Ii would have been inpos-
sible for hypnodsm. better styled sug-
gestive therapeutics, TO have sub-con-
sciously prompted him to commit muir
der
illicit Love Irrational,
Captain Won Goeben was In love
with another mans wife, which Is an
Irrational thing, said pr Quackenbos
Love is animal spiritual and rational
and such details OF tae Won Goeben
case as we have show that the rational
and the spiritual We're lacking in this
German officers case.
In the Townsend case there Is inti-
nation of hereditary weakness | am
convinced as the result of practice
and experiment that it is impossible
for any normal being 10 be led into a
gestion or for any normal person to be
criminal act through sub-conscious sug-
induced to part with property because
of such suggestions There WAS prob
ably liking and a desire to please, cou-
pied with the Englishman's weakness,
rather than an oyerpowering influence
exerted by the curate.
Protoplasm at Fault
Psycho-therapeutics have so far ad-
yanced that psychologists believe that
there Is a physical cause for moral i'm
pairment Stealing is symptom Of
deficient mental tissue. The deficiency
is degeneration OF lecithin of the
brain. That IS, the protoplasm Of the
cell is imperfect
In treating thief by suggestive
have found il necessary
TO repair the physical weakness and
have been giving for some time-quanti-
ties of glycero-Dhosphates to improve
the quality OF the lecithln. Such phos-
pilates are found In meat
This specific raises the whole ner-
yous tone 1t is not stimulant but
a nerve feeder. Advanced psycholo-
gists no longer whip the nerves to new
but feed them.
"Glyeerophosphates rs a remedy for
moral breakdown when administered
by a physician who understands how
10 combine il with sub-conscious sug-
gestion
This is very tioklish subject. for
the practitioners have too long ignored
grief. worry and temptation in the
treatment OF human ills. Tie use OF
this specific / have mentioned cannot
hurt well person and viii benefit
those for whom il ought to be pre-