MICROBES, MICROBOPHOBIA AND THE ABUSE OF GERMICIDES

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His operative style and aseptic management of the case were perfect. This surgeon would almost certainly have a death-rate of at least 15 per cent.– in a class of cases that should give less than 5 per cent.

The most ancient treatment of insanity we know was the Hippocratic practice of using a strong purgative in the shape of hellebore. It is certain such a practice has remarkably good and curative effects in many cases.

Few things are more evident in most acute cases and many chronic forms of mental disease than derangements of digestion, of the action of the bowels, and of the hepatic (liver) functions. The tongue will very often be found coated and furred. It tends frequently to be dry, this morbid condition being shared by the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat. It will be found that in most cases of melancholia the bowels are inactive and are often obstinately constipated. Frequently the stools are devoid of bile, while the colour of the skin and of the conjunctivae is muddy and yellowish.

Of late years the opinion has become strong and widespread that the contents of the bowels may become very septic, and that catarrhal conditions of the stomach and bowels frequently result from this cause.

Dr. Ford Robertson, of the Scottish Asylums Pathological Laboratory, has lately astonished those of us who have seen most symptoms and treatments of insanity, by drawing attention to the enormous multiplication of micro-organisms over the surface of the mucous membrane of the stomach, duodenum, and small intestine, in general paralysis. As the result of those clinical and pathological facts, it may be said that purgatives have lately “come in again”.– DR. T. S. CLOUSTON, An Index of Treatment.

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Robert T. Morris
Robert T. Morris, A. M., M. D., was a Professor in Surgery at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School (around 1912).
The renowned New York doctor, Robert T. Morris (1857-1945), who struggled with a reactionary profession to pioneer sterility, small incisions, and better wound-healing in surgery. Blessed with abundant energy, sagacity, and long life, he also achieved distinction as a naturalist, horticulturist, and explorer, celebrating nature with brilliant prose and poetry. For those days, Morris was a rare visionary, grounded in science and courageously fighting on the side of suffering humanity, though few remember him today.
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