Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-13
SIMPLE LIFE |S THE THING
 FOR PEOPLE
Dr. Charles L. Dana Declares
 That Modern Activities Are
 Responsible For All the Nervous Disorders Suffered

NEW YORK, March f1.-Dr. Cnas. {. Dana, the distinguished authority on mental and nervous diseases, has contributed to current medical iitera- ture an article on "I'he zooDhilPsy- chosis"
 He describes tbis worriment as modern ailment and gives Illustrative cases.
 In his introduction Dr. Dana sep arates psycho-neurotic ailments into three groups: Neurasthenia, hyster- ian and psyehasthenia, or obsessiye psychosis.
 How Various Trobules Act.
 He describes these states briefly as follows;
 Tn neurasthenia there is Q local or general but genuine weakness of the psychic and nervous functions.
 "In hysteria there is a pathological activity of the subconcious mind, so that morbid bodily and mental phe- nomena result.
 Tn psychastheia there is Q morbid activity Of the conscious mind, which produces disordered mental and bodily states, but there is no serious loss of control in the relation of the victim to his environment, so it is not an insanity in it's usual sense"
 Dr. Dana then proceeds to enlarge upon psychasthenia of obessive psy- chosis and it's significance.
 This phycsasthenia or obsessiye psychosis." he says. has been most actively studied in recent years, for it seems to be the disease or our ciyi ization-a kind of occupation psyehosls of modern lie It is no hysteria. though hysteria and it are often united. It is not neurasthenia, though this Is almost always associat- ed in it with it at it's beginning, at least.
 Should Lead Simple Life. Modern activities are too strenuous for this kind of mental organism, which Is meant for life of simpiic- ity, moderation and restraint The present popular absorbent method of education. which lets the mind to follow it's interests and take the line of feast resistance is a potent factor l in the pathogenesis. For through Il 1 the power Of inhibition becomes weak ened or lost, and the mental life Is approximated 10 the conditions of Iiv- iug.7
 Here are some instances to show how correctly what the writer means, ana. as he says. "To prove at once , that the condition is most real
 sThe history is given of a woman ' who became obsessed with remorse because she had given away her cat and the animal had later died. She had the usual train of symptoms go ing with the obsessiOn: Defect of at- { tention, breeding, inability to work, i and insomnia
 i Where the Zoophilie Comes in. She had another symptom almost | as bad as the despair--viz: an impos- sible love of animals pushed to the degree of disease, a ZoophiIie. She wasN always surrounded by four cats, which she loved and looked after more than her children She lost a child and did not much mind it. She lost a cat and was melancholy for eight months.
 A man aged B, married. no ehil dren. came to me suffering from gen eraI nourasthenia symptoms. He al ways had been careful of the comfort of animals and disliked to see them badly treated in the slightest degree; this was especially so of horses. He did not care so much about the dogs
 His coYcern for horses, originally a natural and humane one, grew on him as his health failed; so that he finally gave up keeping them or using them. because their possible comfort worried him so much.
 | No Joke in His Nightmare. "A little trouble with his horse would keep him awake nights. He came to the city. but now the horses of other people bothered him. It gave him real suffering to see q horse checked up or whipped. or docked or driven fast.
 So far as the zoophiLpsychosis si concerned, it shows itself both in fixed and tormenting ideas and in an emo tional hypertrophy which carries . naturally noble sentiment to the point of disease. With both states there 2. are morDid fears and worries II It happens that nfzuy people can ] not nowadays go Oat into eitys streets and not be distressed coDttB ually at the sight of tired, over gsTked, and badly driven horses. o' of some thin fooktng and uHsrsozae< dogs They are SD eager to observe the unhappy horse that they 6s Bs' see the huHsau su1ferfng | confess that after twenty years of expersenet with cab driving in this city fave grown sympathetic to the drivei