MENTAL DISORDERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1132, 20 May 1911, Page 4

MENTAL DISORDERS.

MODERN METHODS OP TREATMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Hastings, May 19. A London press cablegram dated February 17 stated:— "Dr. Oswald, at Glasgow Royal Asylum, said important research work showed that a German professor had discovered a substance which, when injected into tho blood) cures mental disease." Anxious to benefit his son iu a mental hospital, a resident of Hastings wroto to Dr. Oswald for further information, and has received the following reply:— "Glasgow Royal Asylum, April 19. "Dr. "Oswald regrets that a misleading statement appeared in foreign newspapers regarding his remarks on the treatment of mental disorders. Ho used no words to justify an interpretation that a euro far insanity generally had been discovered. He spoko of a substance recently discovered by ;\ .German professor and believed by him to bo a cure, for a specific disease, and said it had been found that tho same substance, when injected into tho blood, produced a good effect, if not indeed a cure, in some cases of mental disorders due to this specific disease. Ho (Dr. Oswald) was extremely careful to limit his remarks to cases which, were dim to specific disease, to speak regarding them in tho most guarded manner, and to state that this form of mental illness, as in many others, only early treatment was of any avail." Dr. Oswald; concludes by stating that tho treatment ho referred to is doubtless well known to specialists in Now Zealand.