The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-10-13
After Many
Years

rarienf An Idea
How We Male Our Own
Aches and Pains
BY = 7. SHORT
Is ne was writing = prescrip-
A ton the other day well.
known Tacoma physician advised
the patient TO get a copy Of the
October number Of Readers Dr.
Eest and read an article entitled.
How Your Mind May Make You
NJ
IN the conversation that fol-
lowed II was brought out that
many ailments are the result Of
persons mental condition and
that worry or morbid and fear
some thinking may actually make
person seriously IN. Then there
vas expressed the thought that II
the mind can make a person m,
the mind also must be an inpor-
tant factor in maintaining good
heaith and actually having the
power to cure many ailmsnts
The patient did as directed and
found an interesting article giving
the views Of number of prom
inent physicians who have been
investigating the influence that
minds have on bodies. Included
were results of experiments made
at the Columbia Presbyterian
Medical Center in New York.
Johns Hopkins university and the |
Massachusetts, General hospital.
In one case II was established
that a woman's stomach trouble
began when she listened to a ra-
do description of stomach can
Ger and continued to think about
It. In the New York hospital it
was demonstrated that emotional
upsets contributed to the cause
Va StOinhCH ulcer.
II has been positively estab-
lished that prolonged state of
anger bottled up inside can bring
on case of high blood pressure
which has no apparent physical
cause. This discovery, the writer
points out, is particularly impor-
tant when we realize how many
deaths over fifty are related TO
blood pressure disturbances.
Physicians have established a
close relation between emotional
disturbances and heart disease.
Study Of a great number of tu-
bercular patients has revealed that
those who were emotionslly dis 1
turbed had swifter form of the ,
disease than those free from men,
tai strain.
Other studies have shown that I
many cases Of diabetes are affect 1
cd by severe emotional shocks.
Arthritis also has been found fire. {
quently to run parallel TO acute {
mental upsets. And the physi- 8
clans have found that worry can 7
accelerate tooth decay. ,
In these cases medical treat ]
ment has little and sometimes no
effect until the mind was able \
b do something about 1t. 4
Because of the knowledge OBJ (
tanned in research over long r
period, medical schools are teach =
ing doctors to trace and correct 4
the mental states that cause
bodily ailments. As one physician
puts 1t, the patient as a human
being with his worries, fears,
hopes and despairs, as an indi-
vidual whole and not only the
possessor of organs, is becoming
the legitimate object Of medical
interest"
To put 1t another way, pro-
gressive medical men now insist
that 1t is more important to know
what kind Of patient has dis
Ease, than what sort of a disease
the patient has.
Coming and GONG
No, brother, there isn't any
thing that you can do personally
about the few individuals who
sneak their lighted cigarets into i,
the back Of the bus and blow Y
smoke into the faces OF the other :
The sign, NO Smok-
lng," doesn't mean any more 10
them than highway signs do to
The discourteous or reckless
iriver. You might take your CON-
plant TO Mr.. Curtis Hill. who
TINS the Tacoma Transit COM
pany, but he may be too busy
10 bother with it.
They said II couldn't be done, J
but somebody did H. That's the
reason we have railroads. tele- ,
phones, radios, electric lights and
other things that have !
become a partsof life. From here
{ looks as II one Henry Kaiser '
s going 10 mark another off the \
list Of things that couldn't be
lone. 1t would be an inspiration
% witness the launching Of his
irst great flying boat. :