The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-06

! 9L twenty -lnlee uta S' IiidlllIcSlIuS III
 various diseases. Thus, constitutional diseases, such as epilepsy, pile. gout, etc. make themselves particularly con | spicuous on the critical days core spending to said period Also in infec- tious diseases these days are important
 playing, a it were into the hands of | the bacilli. Apoplectic seizures, the
 surest messengers of death, likewise occur on these critical days. But not only pathological processes of every
 description are governed by this peril Iod; the phases Of normal human deyel-
 opment, such as teething, children's $ | learning to talk, etc. are also depend-
 ent upon periodical terms Even in the animal kingdom the twenty-three days period seems to rule supreme. Thus Fliess found that the dates in which famous racehorses run badly werl apart from each other by multipl
 of twenty-three days and Swoboda's researches yielded the further sur prising result that, counted from mans
 birth, every twenty third day of hi.
 lie IS critical one-that is to say
 that on such days he is liable. to |,
 subject to all kinds of minor derange.
 ments. such as colds, nose bleedlng- futaneous eruptions, etc. as we'll as
 pychic depression, rapid mental f.
 tlgue, etc. in short, to all those pho
 nomena which taken together consti
 tute the idea of illness. At the expire
 ton of the tWenty-three days period.
 therefore, the organism, both body an soul, possesses less power of resistance
 Al that time we shauld not perfori
 any severe operation. should not un
 dertake anything particularly difficult
 as, for instance. passing an examine
 ton, making an important speech. no should We expose ourselves to any dan
 ger Incidentally, besides the twenty
 three days period, Dr. Fleiss also dia covered one of twenty eight days
 which, manifesting itself as it doe pre-eminently in the female sex, h. calls the feminine period, while the in terval of twenty three days, which characteristic of the stronger sex, h, designates as the masculine period Bu; owing to the principle of bi-seXuality 1t often happens that the twenty-eight days period is also met with in men and, vice versa, the twenty-three days period in women
 The discovery of this periodicity
 throws a new light upon the myster-
 ous domsi1 of dream life Althouch
 1t is not possible to explain all dreams
 by one principle. still Swoboda's 1ls, coveries do not have any doubt as 10 the fact that the contents of our dreams are in a great measure form ed out of the remembrances faling due in accordance with the law f periodicity. If we further consider that during sleep our intellect does not assert its controlling power we car easily exuplain the frequently very bizarre combination of mental pictures created in our dreams Out of the abundance of instructive illustrations given by Swoboda, the following, pi,k- ed out at random, may also serve {, explain the would-be prophetic dreams:
 A Vienna physician one night bA NhitiNd NItdA Ilt V ttS Nellltu u sA ciIh child. Tn his dream he sees distinct ly the house of the child's family, the sickroom. and the like. On the fol- lowing day he is actually called to the child The prophetical nature of this dream finds it's explanation in the fol- lowing facts; On January the physi- clan had paid visit to the family; In the night from March 27 to 2S he had the dream, therefore after 3x2S days. In this case we have a feminine inter- val in a male individual From his last visit started for both the physician and the child's mother one and the same period. After 3x2S days came only each party interpreted 1t differ ently. In the physician 1t caused to arise the presentiment or anticipation that he would be called, and to the mother 1t suggested the idea, or her in her resolution, to send for him. It must be added that the child was not ailing at all that the physician was only sent for to ex- anime it again. hence without any ap parent necessity.
 One morning at breakfast relates Swoboda, "I pick up a newspaper, and perusing It. l am struck by the head line. An Accident on the Oder At the same moment I remember that short ly before awakening l dreamed that was on the sea, that my vessel collid- ed with another steamer, which caus- ed 1t to sink, and that I made vain efforts to save myself from drowning. Here the dream ended" Was this u CT Swoboda recollected having read weeks before of the loss of a vessel near Marseilles He got the date of the newspaper account; 1t was exactly 46 (2x23) days previous to his dream. From this we can see how cautious we should be in the assumption of pro- phetic dreams.
 An interesting practical application of the law of periodicity, in particular that of the 23 Cor, better. 2x23) hour interval, can be made with regard to memory. If we want to learn somo- thing by 'heart for a certain occasion, such as a song. a speech it is evident ly of the greatest advantage to choose the time of memoriZing so as to cause the spontaneous recollections to arise at the desired moment The time of the arising of spontaneous recollec- ticns is also most favorable for prac- tice. On the other hand. the day im- following the attendance of concert is better suited for the study of music than the second day, because on the second day the 46-hour period terminates and the new per captions come in conflict with the re- etc-New York Tribune.