Word: melancholia
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...greater vulgarity, while poseurs prey on ignorance and snobbishness, social climbers spend fortunes trying to get accepted. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr fell in love, waited until after her mother's death to plan her divorce. Then her lover died. Harry Lehr had quieted down, showed symptoms of acute melancholia before the War, which finally put an end to his way of life. He grew more & more morose; his mind slowly failed; he became panic-stricken at the thought of his despised wife's leaving him. She accepted an impossible situation, gave him money, buried herself in War work. Upon...
Time was when Robert Nathan toyed gently and amiably with his congenital melancholia. Always a writer who preferred fantasy to strict realism, he once put his deepest convictions into the mouths of dancing dogs, unwed mice and such philosophical creatures as Isaiah, the stoic horse of The Woodcutter's House. When he was not bringing wisdom out of the mouths of baby tumblebugs and suckling pigs, he was engaged in mild satires on religion (The Bishop's Wife, There Is Another Heaven). But Depression, if it did not quite succeed in bringing him down to solid earth...
Inheriting melancholia from his father and scrofulously infected by his nurse's milk, Sam Johnson got off to a bad start. Though huge-framed and strong as a bull, he was myopic, twitchety, haunted by fears of madness and death. Net result, says Kingsmill, was to make him the apotheosis of honesty and common sense. "Johnson's fear of insanity immensely strengthened his innate truthfulness and sense of reality, for the lies and illusions which make life more comfortable for ordinary men appeared to him as the first steps towards madness." Extremely indolent by nature, Johnson was capable...
...rays into the pituitary, which lies under the brain, and the adrenals, which lie on the kidneys, and thus slow up the production of hormones by those glands? Dr. Hutton, who has cured inmates of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Elgin of dementia praecox and melancholia by means of hormones, boldly x-rayed the brains and loins of suitable patients in Chicago's Illinois Central Hospital. The treatment seemed to clean up their diabetes, to lower their blood pressure, and gave Dr. Hutton cause to declare: "If it does no better than control diabetes, as insulin...
Died, Henry Andrews Cotton, 64. director-emeritus of the New Jersey State Hospital, pioneer of modern methods for treating the insane; of a heart attack; in Trenton, N. J. Dementia praecox, melancholia and other mental defects he approached from a physical standpoint, seeking infections in teeth, tonsils or bowels as potential causes. When he assumed control of the State Hospital in Trenton. N. J. in 1907, he shocked physicians by removing all straitjackets, anklets, wristlets, straps. Friends claim that because of his researches the recovery rate among his patients leaped from...