CAUSES OF INSANITY AMONG WOMEN.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4806, 8 November 1902, Page 4 (Supplement)

CAUSES OF INSANITY AMONG WOMEN.

Speaking of tho causes of insanity among women, and especially among working women, Doctor Clouston, a celebrated English doctor, makes a very important observation, when he says that he preaches to such patients the doctrine of a walk in tho fresh air every day, a cheap and efficient means of health greatly neglected by working women. This is a noteworthy remark, and one that should bo remembered, and what is more, acted upon. Brain hygiene, however, is a matter of personal health, of wise education, of the avoidance of over strain, and worry, and of all other conditions which tend to build up tho healthy organism. There is also a deal of pathos in Doctor Clouston’s remark that “little may make the difference whether an originally sensitive and highly imaginative brain becomes under bad conditions insanely delusional, or under good ones brilliantly imaginative. Manv such brains, well worth taking care of are now lost to the world through bad conditions.” This is a new way of putting Drydon’s familiar lines about the “thin partitions which separate great wits from madness.”