MENTAL DISEASES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 306, 20 May 1911, Page 5

MENTAL DISEASES

THE ALLEGED CURE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, Last Night. A London Press cable, dated February 17, stated: "Dr. Oswald, at the Glasgow Royal Asylum, said that important research work showed a German professor had discovered a substance which when injected into the blood cures mental disease." Anxious, to benefit his sou in a mental hospital, a resident of Hastings wrote to Dr. Oswald for further information and received a reply as follows: "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. He used no words to justify the interpretation that a cure for insanity generally had been discovered. He spoke of a substance recently discovered by a German professor and believed by him to be a cure for specific diseases, 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, in mental due to this specific disease. He (Dr. Oswald) was extremely careful to limit his remarks to cases which were due to specific disease and to speak regarding them in a 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 concluded by stating that the treatment he referred to is doubtless well known to specialists in New Zealand.