THE OREOdN SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND ; SUNDAY MORNING; MARCH ' g. " 1 9 1 CV4 T "T
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Or. Fran? of Psychological
Laboratory at Government
ftHospital for Insane, Wash
ington, Great Benefactor.
, ; - By Fmlerlc J. Iliwkin.
-Washington, March 6. The cur
' mental derangement by the sudden pro
, ' runclatlon of a single word la th
achievement of Dn, Shnpherd Ivor
Franx, who la In charga of the pnycholo
, 4 deal laboratory of the government hos
pltal for the insane at Washington II
ucceedj by working on the theory that
I bars are thousand! of casta of In
aanlty which can be successfully treated
If the cauce of the mental disease ran
; be ascertained, and the explanation mad
, ithe patients that their unhealthy
thoughts have no foundation In fact
Afraid of Open yiaoss.
- Tnere was sent to him recently
young man who had an overpowering
lev of open places, the outdoors or
any unenclosed place, and who was un
. der the domination of this terror to
uch an extent that he could he made
to leave his bedroom only ly physlca
compulsion. Dr. Franx took him into
the "treatment room" of the laboratory,
where,' there Is very little light and no
-noise. Seating the patient In a com
fortable easy chair, the doctor told him
' to relax himself and try not to think
, of anything. After a dead silence of
several minute, the doctor began to
pronounce, with suddn emphasis single
words which he thought might produce
- In the man's mind some Idea having a
bearing on the cause of his delusions
Every time he pronounced a word, he
leaned over and struck the patient
sharply on the knee.
He went through more than a hun
dred words without getting any results,
finally, when he said "hole." the man
, paused a moment before making an lr-
' relevant answer. That pause encouraged
Fran. His next word, accompanied by
tha tap on the knee, was "trench." From
this be got results, and gradually, with
Infinite patience, he brought out the
-lory -of what had unseated the pa
tient's mind. It was this: One morning
ha bad been running at the top of his
peed to overtake a moving street car,
and the chase had carried him halfway
down the next block. Just aa he was
atTMt to grasp the handle bar of the
sXt-t and swing himself aboard, he looked
down and. saw yawning at his feet a
freshly dug sewer trench. One more
step and he would have had a fall of
- t"lght feet, but he managed to bring. him
self up short
Talks Sua to Becovery.
At first the experience had had no
appreciable effect, but such shocks to
the brain, work gradually. In a few
-weeaa he felt an; aversion to walking
In open fields. Next he disliked to
cross the street, and this went so far
that be could not be prevailed to do so
. unless he .was accompanied by a guide.
"After a while longer, he refused to walk
aoross the yard from his house to that
of his next door neighbor, and the final
stag of the disease was that he was
afraid to leave his room. Dr. Franx,
having established all this by his
theory of suggesting to the patient the
real trouble by the use of words cal-
. culated to ' bring the mental pictures
back to him. had comparatively little
difficulty In explaining that the dread
was founded on fiction and that there
was really nothing to fear. The man's
complete recovery followed, and he
again occupies a prominent place In the
business world. , .
. reared the r.
These peculiar cases of Insanity are
classed under the general title of
"phobias." The man wno feared the
open places waa an agoraphoblac. An
other case Dr. Franx had was that of a
pyrophobla the fear of fire. This was
a woman who dreaded rire, and at vari
ous periods In the day imagined that
he was enveloped In flames. At such
. time aha suffered as much as if she I
had been actually on fire. On very
bright, sunny days, the brilliance of the
. sun persuaded her that the world was
turning up. .The doctor was successful
with her on the third word, which was
'matches." That reminded her dimly
of her baby having been burned to death
. as the result of playing with matches.
Gradually, lie made her understand that
. the child's death was no reason for her
to think she- was on fire or to believe
.'. that , fire waa to be dreaded all the
time."
. It Is difficult to trace these "phobias"
to their true causes because, aa was
, pointed out in the case of the agorapho-
biac, the effects of the shock to the
. brain do not appear at once, but enmn
out long afterwards. The families of
he had been at a German on evening
and had seen a man commit suicide in a
conservatory by shooting himself in the
temple.- The sight of the blood n the
suicide's hlrt front had been the start-ina-
Dotnt of her delusion. Sua was
cured in two Weeks'.
Forgets Own laentlty.
A peculiar case was that of a man
who had suddenly forgotten his own
identity, and had traveled through six
different states without knowing who
he was. Hs was picked up In the streets
of Washington and sent to the Hospital
for the Insane. There was nothing to
suggest who he was, absolutely no clue
to his home, his occupation or his name.
It afterwards developed that be had
been away from home eight months,
and had been going .dawn hill all the
t line until he looked Hk the most mis
erable of tramps. The doctor saw the
futility of trying to suggest to him his
identity by using sll the names he had
ever heard. Accordingly he tried the
employment line. None of the ordinary
professions brought any response. Men
tion of doctors, lawyers, Journalists or
ministers guvo, no renult. The same
whs true of all the words referring to
such avwatlons ns plumbers, bricklay
ers, carpenters and teamsters. Finally
the doctor said: "I nm looking for
sonmbody to tune my piano." It proved
to be the right cue. The patient was a
tuner from one of the middle western
stntra. After three weeks of question
ing and prompting, the doctor retraced
with the man all his wanderings, made
him remember his name and restored
to him the complete mastery of all his
mental faculties.
A Baffling Case.
One of the most baffling cases Franx
ever had was the man who not only
was frightened every time he sea
horse shoe, but who was constantly pos
sessed of the Mea that it would be
used as a means of killing him. Of
course, the natural assumption was that
he had been kicked by a horse or run
over by one, and that the shock of the
accident had unseated his reason.
Working on this theory, the doctor
wasted many precious sittings sad
used un hundreds of words mithout
making and progress toward dlscover-
ng the true cause of the trouble. It
finally developed that the fellow had
been struck on the head by a horse.
shoe, which had been nailed over a.
door for "good luck," and which had
fallen on him as he entered a friend's
honse.
Dreaded Dark Places.
A direct opposite of the man who
feared the open places was the woman
who dreaded all closed or dark places.
She had claustrophobia, and had devel
oped the mania of staying out-of-doors,
sleeping outofdoors and never entering
the house unless compelled to do so.
As Is often the case with mothers, her
rouble had come from an accident to
her child. She had seen It. while play
ing in a big linen closet, have Its hand
caught and crushed by the closing of
heavy door, and the shock of the
child's suffering preyed on her mind
until she had Come to fear anything
with doors.
The "phobias" are the most trouble-
ome curable cases with which the cay-
chlatrlst or alienist has to deal. If
ny of these patients had died while
n the worst stages of their mental de
rangements, and autopsies had been
performed on them, their brains would
have appeared perfectly normal. Their
ufferlngs do not come from any decay
or disease of the brain tissues, and It
as been demonstrated that were It not
for the "word treatment," all that
could be done for them would be to
allow them to suffer for months and
months, perhaps years, before they
could recover. With the new method,
however, they are often cured In mar-
elously short time.
Tomorrow Business Bide of Art.
Hood Hirer High to Debate.
(KpecUl Dbpatch to TV Joernil.t
Hood River. Or.. March 6. The Hood
River -High school debating, team will
leave for Park Place today to debate
1th the high .school team there. The
winner In this contest, will enter the
triangular debate with Newberg and
Tillamook. The subject for debate will
be: Reaolved, "That capital punish
ment should be abolished and life Im
prisonment with restricted pardoning i
power should be substituted."
Notice to Fat Women
Presumably you know, ladies, that
the proper caper nowadays is lines.
urves are passe. you nave got to
take off your fat. This must be done
-In one of three ways. By dieting, by
exercise, or by means of Marmola Pre
scription Tablets. The two lormer will
keep you busy for months and punish
you pretty severely, the latter will cost
you 75 cents at the druggist's. The tab
lets will not make any alteration In
your diet necessary, and yet In all
probability, before you have used up
one case, you v.ill be losing from 12 fo
in ounces of fat a day. Which method
do you like the best?
If you fancy this pleasant method of
getting off the fat, see your druggist
Instantly, or else write the Marmola
Co., 66 Farmer Bldg., Detroit, Mich.,
to send you a cae by mall. These
cases contain so generous a quantity of
tablets that the treatment ts very eco
nomical. It Is, also, quite harmless, for
the tablets are made exactly In accord-
"- sorlptlon.
any reasons for the mental breakdown.
An Amusing Case.
The asylum had one amusing cae. j
This was a mysophoblac, a man who1
feared dirt as ordinary people fall away '
from pestilence. His mania for wash-
- 'lr. his hands waa never satisfied, and i
the hospital attendants finally agreed i
to let him go through these ablutions j
ight times a day. On one occasion he j
u allowed to go into tle lav&tory un-;
watched, and, when he was found 40
minutes later, hs had used 70 towels.1
:', X was later discovered that his trouble;
- had come from his seeing on the .street;
a man who appeared to be particularly
. unkempt and dirty looking At the :
Mm this patient's companion hart been;
a physician, who had polnteil out the
probabilities of the tramp spreading
disease. Through some peculiar kink
in his brain, the patient Iiai dwelt on
that remark and had allowed 1t to be-
come the dominant thought in his life,;
resulting In his having no other desire
than to take bath.' and wa?h his hnnrls. i
While this incident ran bo related brif- !
ly, it Is Illustrative of the doctor's pa- I
tlent methods that he bad to use more
than 8000 words in the rourre of many
treatments before he set the man's
; mind to thinking of the actual cause I
of the trouble. The successful word :
Was "doctor." although nucIi words as ;
"germ" and "disease" bad fallci to
make any substantial suggestion to the j
patient's mind. I
reared Anything Bed.
One of Dr. Franz' patients was a
beautiful young woman who was taken
. to him because she had a fear of any-
:. thing red. Red curtains, red carpets or i
" anything of that color threw her into'
what amounted to convulsions of fear. I
He took her Into the darkened, quiet'
room. It was a summer afternoon., and !
.nothing could be heard but the smooth
. hum of an electric fan on the table. He"
allowed her to sit perfectly quiet for i
more- than, five minutes. Then he leaned
forward, and, tapping her on the knee, ;
; said sharply: "Suicide!" VYes, yes,".'
he aald, and-, hesitated a moment. Then :
ithe continued: "It was at a ball."
"Platci:'' exclaimed the doctor. That
brought back tho whole story of how
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