HOPES FOR CURING HOPELESSLY INSANE
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By Telegtaph
Received Friday, 7.0. p.m. LOS ANGELES; April 18. Hope for curiiig the hitherto hopelessly insane by a delieate - frontaf skull oper.ation, is held otit by an official of the Mayo Clinic, Dr. (irai'ton Love. He said the operation was not ineluded in medical conierence agendas because it whs felt it might Create too niuch oi' a sensation at .present. ' " I have personally iierformed this opehdtion on ■ oveh 100 patients and other surgeons can also carry out the pperatioti,,> he said. ; ' J)r. Love described the operation fis delieate but not diffictilt for a trained neurosurgeon. He acknowledged he did n.0t know why it ciired insanity. .. '! '-k ' i Cured cases ineluded dementia praecOx, invcfltitioh flielfinchojiifi, and suicidal tendeneieS'r • f/"" . . , /V, u. ])r. Winifred OverB'olsei', Professor of Psychiatiy :at'';Wa8liington ihiiversity, told' the American Philosophieal Society that fully lialf ihe hospital beds in United States are in mehtal hospitals. It is relialily estitnated that one American adult in eYehy twenty may expect to become a meiltal hospital patient during' his or her life. • Dr. Overholser added that education in psychiatry was vital to solving ihe problem. *■
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 April 1946, Page 5
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