Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-12-13
Dr. J. l.. Greene Delivers
 Scholarly Address Of San ity and it's Symptoms.
MET HERE THURSDAY
Fourth District Society Hears Many Papers of Interest i.ca,i
 and Discussed.

One of the features of the quarter ly meo ing of the Fourth Councillor i District Medical Society, which is made un of seven Sout heast Arkan- sas counties, held in th s city yester- day, WIS the address Of pr. ]. l.. Greene, supcrintendCnJ of oh9 State Hospital for Nervous Diseases, at Little Rock. Dr. Greene discussed 'Early Symptoms of Mental Disease and his adG:s SIS WIS heard by juri sts and members of the bars, as well as a large gathering of members of tEe Me dical Society
 He declared .h5t the general bsliai that insanity i: due to disappointment in love, financial losses, sorrow oc- casioned by deaths and excitement was nc, well founded. If | w2s, a9 said, we would all be insane" He sad tha. insanity may be inherited and that sixty per cent. of tne ins ne of this country is traced 10 hereditary tendenc es 70 be insane. Predisposi- tion may be acquired he said, and he gave figures to show that p per cent. of the insane in hospitals suffer from paresis or br2in softenlng. Wine, women and worry were combined by h m in his illustration to give a good reason for insanity and he de- scribed it's different forms. Paresis he said, is due to an organic disease of the brain and the spinal cord or both. He declared that early re- cogn Eion of paresis is important.
 ''I'he Jaws of this state can take your wife or your daughter from you and place her in a state asylum, unless your county judge interferes, said Dr. Greene, "just because she is ill and acts strangely. This state has not as yet provided "a sufficient number of physic ans to attend it's state hospital patients, but l intend to ask the Legislature to provide at le9st ssven medical attendants at our institution. It does not matter whe her l am reelected or not. That is not the question. We owe tt to hu- manity to care for our unfortunates properly and the state should do SO There are now. 1,400 patients in the state asylum and the number will never be any less.'
 In the absence of pr. w. A. Brown of Monticello, president of the so- ciety, pr. o. G. Blackwell, of this ty. presided. The secre.a ary, Dr. H. T. Sm th, of McGehee, was present. During the morning clinics were held and at the afternoon session a number of helpful papers were dis nr uyi11iar,ol Cr11tnhQr nt Pine Bluff, presented paper on Gall Stones;" Dr. J. T. Palmer, Pine Bluff, one on "Neuristhenia; ;;
 Dr. w. T. Lowe, cty physician of Pine Bluff, read paper on Manage ment of Pneumonia" and Dr. E. E. Barlow, of Dermott, presented lec- ture on "The County Medical Society and the Need of It's Further De- velcpment." Dr. Barlow urged ths, members of the society be compelled to attend at least one meeting year and that it be made compulsory that he do so. pr. William Breathwit who discussed number of papers during the afternoon, enthusiastically approved Dr. Barlow's recommenda' tion and a resolution, offered by him was adopted calling on the D strict councillor, Dr. Barlow to present all amendment to the constitution of the Fourth Councillor District Society to make attendance by physicians compulsory or suspend them.
 Dermott, Pine Bluff. Mont cello and McGehee asked for the nex meeting of the Society in March, but McGehee was selected. A program committee was named, composed ol Drs. Barlow, of Dermott; lsom, O Dumas and McGehee, of Lake Village