CURING INSANITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1002, 8 June 1911, Page 4

CURING INSANITY.

A cable message from London, dated February 17th, stated “Dr Oswald, at the Glasgow Royal Asylum, said that important research work showed that a German professor had discovered a substance which, injected into the blood, cures mental diseases.” Anxious to benefit his son in the mental hospital, a resident of Hastings wrote to Dr Oswald for further information. He has received the following reply : “Glasgow Royal Asylum, April 19. —Dr Oswald regrets that misleading statements appeared in foreign newspapers regarding his remarks on the treatment of mental disorders. He used no words to justify the interpretation that a cure for insanity generally would be discovered. He spoke of the substance recently discovered by a German professor, and believed by him to be a cure for a specific disease, and said it had been found that the same substance, when injected into the blood, produced a good effect, if not, indeed, a cure, in some cases of mental disorders due to this specific disease. He (Dr Oswald) was extremely careful to limit his remarks to cases which were due to the specific disease, to speak regarding them in the most guarded manner, and to state that in this form of mental illness, as in many others, only early treatment is of any avail.” Dr Oswald concludes by stating that the treatment he referred to is doubtless well-known to specialists in New Zealand.