IN MODERN MEDICINE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 473, 21 May 1890, Page 5

IN MODERN MEDICINE.

THE PROPER TREATMENT OF THE MIND HAS BECOME AN IMPORTANT FEATURE. We contend that at the present time there is and for the last half-century there has been evolving an altered condition between body and mind, says the ‘Hospital.’ The mind—the brain, in short—of the present generation is more generally and intensely active than was the mind of immediately preceding generations. This is not the same as saying that the average man of the present generation has more sense and judgment than his grandfather, or that the poets and philosophers of the present age are greater than Shakspere or Goethe, than Descartes or Newton. It is only affirming that the average man’s mind is much more active and is subjected to much more wear and tear than was the average man’s mind of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. As it is, therefore, imperatively incumbent upon the practical physician that he constantly atudyy understand, and practise the ‘ medication of the mind ’ in the consideration of almost every individual case, it is as necessary to take into the ‘ brief ’ the Btateof the mind as it is to include the condition of the teeth, or the bowels, or any other primary organ or function of the’body. < -