Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-10

s..,eian for mental diseases, who
Nv this year caused a sensation by
,hs uublication in the Lancet and 9TH
MEDICAL journals OF a report OF
..-sssful cure of mental derange-
go by trephining, writes the Lon
4, correspondent of the New York
Herald.
M Hollander created another SEN
-.,ion IN the course Of his lecture
a. describing the case of boy, aged
-sxtsen who was liar and a thief,
49, Who. after the removal OF strip
n home from his skull, was restored
a. state OF perfect morality.
This boy had to be constantly
-ssched TO keep him from destroy
a. things, from thrashing his fellow
,npils and throwing stones. He told
s.,seboods and had tendency to
.tsal he had no sense Of decepcy and
rev more dangerous the older he
~ unti; his deeds brought him be-
fore the police court.
mr. Hollander proposed the remov-
ii Of a strip of bone from the centre
Nae NJ the head. This was carried
ant An incision was made from the
Tan Of the head vertically down %
Zach ear. when the tissues above the
,Irht ear revealed signs of an old
,s,ury. After several trephiniugs had
heen made the bone was cut away or
the right side. where the membrane
- The brain showed signs Of an old
lemorrhage.
Shows High Moral Feeling.
After being treated antiseptically
the wound was closed and healed
n,ccessfully. The patient got grad
u,lly better and behaved properly.
and not only did he lose his bad pro-
peusities, but showed high moral
feeling
DR.. Hollander Is convinced by this
experience that many sufferers might
be rescued from living tombs to take
their part again In the worlds walk
by simple surgical operation. He
a reported as having said:-
reform of lunatic asylums can
only come from without, but II Ia
hhdered by the popular idea that
all insane people are raving and des'
perate. and that most visitors to asy'
mms enter the wards with the expec'
sstion Of meeting violent maniacs
whom II would be dangerous to ap
preach.
they need not take many steps
before this illusion vanishes, as they
s& nothing but groups Of patients
sesled round fire or lolling about II
dreary sort Of way"
He thinks that newly arrived and
curable cases being brought into al
atmosphere that Is already saturate'
With lunacy become aggravated IN
stead Of cured.
Dr. Hollander recommends the re
noval Of durable patients from asy
lums to places where they may hav
A association of healthy minds. FIT
yesrs ago, he says, there was doub
q to the possibility of localizatior
ut today 1t is an accepted doctrin
hat there is a plurality Of centre
b the brain with definite function
md that injury or disease OF a eli
cumscrIbed portion of the brain ca
cause arrangement OF the menta
power which is located there. O
curse, when insanity Is due to som
toxic substance, some poison that ha
col into the system, then the Who'll
brain may suffer and all the ments
powers may become deranged.
No locaiization Of Mischief.
There Is no possibility OF localiz:
don Of mischief, and 1t Is not fair I
psoduce such cases In evidenc
osAinst chronological doctrine. by
hat insanity may be due to eli
c1mscrIbed lesion on the brain
SUI receiving little recognition, a
>>ough early phrenologists produce
plenty Of evidence in its favor. an
1ecent observations have confirme
Ills view.
Careful. observation Of all recor'
q cases." says DIR. Hollander, "hs
o1OHn me that whenever an in1ur
o9ects the same locality, the sam
uenal power suffers, and In tn
manner have arrived at the localiz
uon theory.
There Is no case more commo
nan that Of faculty to be develo
81 In consequence OF a wound, to
degree never manifested in healt
Thu. blows on the temple ha'
eansed kleptomania; blows on pari
y eminence. melancholy; on Il
VFtex Of the head. religious insanit
I'D 20 on, and II the source Of irI
uuon Is removed the excited faculi
= reduced to Its normal activity.
There are a great many cases {
eoord Of blows on the parietal en-
nence that have been followed by sui
uofbid anxiety that the victim hi
numitted suicide. when a POSTING
Om examination has revealed the 7
soits Of past Inflammation In the S
pnmaryinal and adjacent convol
dons.
Thus DR.. w. Gallus Mickie me
uons the case of soldier who hi
,een struck by a rife ball on 4
80 and lay insensible for sever
AVS. He got well and gained prom
Then worries and anxieti
Ferwhelmed him and he became 4
sessed and melancholy and gradu
XX Ux<4
The best proof that my locali1
oo1 theory Is right Is furnished.
/.| W<1o cases NJ fraumatfc racior