Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-19

Sucn an nSeltQtlon as the NofWicl SIale hospital for the insane for two reasons 1 said Dr. Henry A. Cotton, superintendent of the state hospital of Trenton, \. J., Monday evening, speaking before mem doctors from cities and towns surround J ing Norwich. The first reason is that you have at the head of your institution a man like pr. Franklin S. Wacox, who believes in following out the work with the patients in a systematic way sec ond, that the hospital has the equipment l and facilities for this kind of work not | found in many hospitals of its kind in the | country.
 We at Trenton have worked on the l theuy of cures for insane and have been 1 successful and believe that our results | can be duplicated if tried out as Dr. Vii 1 COX is trying them out in your hospital. ! Norwich will be successful for two req i sons, by the routine of the work report ing yearly. and by the thoroughness in which each individual case is diagnosed and treated.
 Our great work began in 1916, and in 1915 we saw that our theories were cor rect and that the mental condition was due to a disease of the brain, not of the mind. There is a vast distinction between 1 a disease of the mind and a disease of 1 the brain; for instance. in an idiot we l find no brain, hence no mind. But take senility; for years the brain has been normal old age Meakens the brain and | the mind is affected. This shows that a, disease Of the brain is shown in the mind as mental symptoms.
 The old belief was that insanity was l hereditary, that 8 person was born that way, and would always be that way. Yet
 we get cases of insanity that show no
 trace of heredity. If we get a ease early enough we can discard the hereditary l theory, just as has been done in tuber-
 culosis, where it is now. known that the
 disease is not inherited but is taken CT by the child from contact with germs from the parents, picked, up and taken into the body while the child crawls
 about the floor of the house. etc.
 In the old days the belief that they were born that way led to no treatment Now we know that the chief causes of mental disorders are caused by worry. grief. anxiety, disappc:ntnents or by { eoniuEal disharmony.
 tl Less Of VitaIisy DanEerous. : This may CT may not be true but it is
 Anosvn that any act either physical or mental that reduces the vitality of a pa ] tient may go along for some time, caus- ! ing loss of sleep loss of appetite, disor. 5 ders of the system. and when tine vitality is low enough the attack comes on. Mary
 times there is no mental cause Takt
 iE1uenEa. After patient had recovered ? from the attack. h1ertal disorders were ? found vAtch were not there before Bu- 5 after the vitality was restored the dis . orders disappeared
 Now we can see tkat heredity ant
 mental factors can be thrown aside ana
 the most important factor brought in-
 that of chronic infection. We know thA 1. infected teeth. infected toasils and infec ' tions of the intestinal tract cSfises mos : of the cases. Locks do not mean a per 2 son is healthy, for we often hear of . s person who seems in the best of healtl = suddenly dropping dead, thus peovin; :, that the person was not in good health In looking after the teeth it is b "A far better to do nothing with them tha, to leave undonk some things hlat will b Y. detrimental to the health of the patient .Y Do not remove one tooth that is cansirs ?. trouble without taking an x-ray to see 1
 there are not other teeth that are infect
 ed. We have often removed three 0
 four teeth before the snfections were al
 eemoved and the patient restored t
 health.
 s In some cases t is not advisable to rt move the teeth, as it will simply haste Y the end. Thus we see that the cause ( r mental disorders lies principally in tn ae teeth. Of course, we have had eases tha H were due to alcohol, but these fea O D. rapidly after proAfbition. But in the ia. '' year our male cases have been 50 pt o- cent. Of the aAz1tttanceS and alcohol A evidently procarable almost anywhere -N Trenton
 Rheumatism is caused by infected teet . in some patients. While in some it caus, .uI mental disorders, we see that infectt s teeth sometimes cause rheumatism. IT .s reason for this is that some people @ ,. throw of the mental disorders but cam
 escape rheumatisEn as a result.
 Mental causes have been greatly { T. the increase in this country. Our pop = [ iataon in 70 ye&ts has increased 100 D .ss geart., and mental causes increased A 1 41 per cent. !. sS We can stop tkls, however. if the do ., = ftors confer with the dentists Consu '+.' give advice pro and con, and by tt method the patient receives the best ben ,e1 lit and will be saved mental diSordt iti, fSornetimes you win find there is no ca = of infection Of the teeth but there m tcr be an iHlpaeted naolar, and when this = removed the mental disorder disappea
 and the patient Is cured. Poor dentist al. will fail to discover these disorders ,s4 abscesses cannot be seen from the Y. side. An x-ray will slrnw them and tl aii cause of insanity removed for all time s- Some causes of insanity come fri his containdnation. from safFa taken into {
 stomach or poison from infected tet i,- taken into the system. Seruzns and sto
 aoaa cultures will iR time eliminate th,
 and the patient recover from the alta
 We had ease of this kind where a m ,r frosn a wealthy family benane insal but after the gasEru infection in { er- skonsch had been removed he rAcoFei St. and today is earning his living and ho at an important post in government NO The This man has been saved from 2. life na1 some fasttutten and restored to do gt ath in sAis rEorid
 Ar" Removal of Teeth Has Worked Care fer, In all our cases gre find that the tel red either are CT haze been iufscted, but { md has net always been the cspse ef liss trsphie. Tn Sp per cent of our eases lsh, toafsils have not been removed Nand
 infected, or the intestinal tract is eu- fpcted5 iHaamaA Removal of the te hu- infected, the tonsfIs, or the colon, the ] Ilss ter q aalEsFpus operation, has worl CT cures in nearly every case, and the Fil. tispt dissaarged as erred. To show ssA result of cur work in these three line, frs can say that in 1908 our admissi
 were 1s1 aud discharges 49, while n [ggy pearIT 70 per cent Of eur patients lFA, discharged as cured, and in every q Irs. kexNpting few, there has bean an { as- proveHle1t. Tn f2 per cent. Of the ca Erz IhheFs have been deaths, many not due ger, the operation but from other outs Grs. causes that would have caused death Jey, any event within 2 short lime
 Z ig Farce important taetcrS must be EL s-