DISEASE OF TO-DAY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1367, 19 February 1912, Page 9

DISEASE OF TO-DAY.

A celebrated German physician lecturing before a body of students said the primary cause- of nearly ail diseases is worry. It is in itsolf ono of the deadlv diseases of the twentieth century. Ah equally eminent .Scottish doctor <i'iys thai as soon as mau-aud mostly woman-rose put nt savagery and became self-conscious He sot acquainted with worrv. The disease, is peculiar-to civilised'men alone, it is unknown to the lower animals and savages. The most common disease cans, ed by worry is hypochondria. lis vicim is tho man or woman who worries that he or she is going tn 1,0 ill every time he or she is indisposed. Worry has recently formed tho subject of an important medical conference. One authority maintains that it is the result of men and women living more rapidly, crowding into cities, and breathing impure air. Others ararm that heredit? and educaiian are largely to blame tor tho worry habit; but practically all agree that it should be treated as a recognised disease, and treated with change of air, occupation, congenial 'society, and nourishing food. Worry is as much feared by specialists in nervous and mental derangements as tuberculosis and cancer are feared by bacteriologists. It not only possesses the individual, but often -his family and associates, and its chief danger is proved by the fact that what is pessimism and depression in (ho parent may become insanity in tho next generation.