At a recent medical lecture at Vienna, attended by several guesta from abroad, among them being Professor Scripture from London, a new method was dealt with by which progressive paralysis may be favourably influenced. At. the clinic of the well-known Professor Wagner-Jauregg, progressive paralysis, a late appearance of syphilis, was treated with Salvarsan—however, without success. As known by experience, lunatics seized with an illness with high fever improve, and the doctors now attempted to inoculate the mentally deranged with malaria. After awaiting some eight to ten fever attacks, the malaria is stop-_ ped by quinine. Cases treated in good time result in an improvement lasting for years, and in rehabilitation for work. Of paramount importance for the treatment is, of course, the question which centre of the brain was. affected by the stimuli of syphilis. If am essential part of the brain was inflamed and heals through the application of malaria therapy with a scar, a lasting defect naturally follows, despite the cure of the illness.
Since 1919 300 cases have been treated at the Wagner-Jauregg clinic. It is owing to the' new method that the number of paralytics who have to be nursed at asylums has declined. The chief aim of medical research now is to cure syphilis in its stage of the first
as to prevent paralysis altogether, two years by extibcied malaria, 80 which breaks out 10 years later. At the clinic of the well-known Professor Finger, surprisingly good success has been achieved by treating the syphilitic patients by malaria combined with Salvarsan.
The new method of Professor
at the Steinhof, the Austrian Wagner-Jauregg is also practised lunatic asylum opened in 1907, situated magnificently at the western outskirts of Vienna, on the slopes of the Wienerwald, about 1,000 feet above sea level.
After New York, the Steinhof is the largest asylum in the world, with nearly 3,000 beds. It is an excellently arranged little garden city, having 61 houses, of which 24 pavilions are used for the diseased.
"Parts, Aug. 17.—The sist national pilgrimage to the Holy Land left Marseilles to-day. Mer. Baudrillart, who is directing the pilgrimage, will consecrate at Nazareth the new Basilica of the Youthful Jesus.—French' Wireless through Reuten.
Tue Hacur, Aug. 17.—It appears that the victims of the accident at Tarbes, where a charabano fell into a ravine, were not pilgrims, but members of the Ca-operative Dutch Travelling Society, mostly young unmarried people, headed by- the editor of the weekly paper, The Protestant."'—Reuter.
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