Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1885 — The Increase of Insanity. [ARTICLE]

The Increase of Insanity.

Boston supports 800 insane, says Mr. T. B. Sanborn, not 75 of whom will recover. Thisia frightful. Insanity has increased forty per cent, in a decade, and most of the cases are incurable. Whatever the individu-al-cause may be, the fact remains that Trio Add blood sets the brain on fire, destroys its tissues, and then comes some form of fatal lunaoy. Nothing is so pitiable as a mind diseased. Most brain troubles begin in the stomach; then if the blood is filled with uric acid, caused by failure of kidney action, and the consequent destruction of the blood life —albumen—you have the fuel and the flame and a brain in full blare as when one raves, or in slow combustion, as in milder forms of insanity. Rev. E. I>. Hopkins, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., a few years ago was confined in an asylum. He took a terrible cold while aiding In putting out a fire in a neighbor’s burning house, and for twenty-five years that cold was slowly filling his blood with uric acid, and finally the deadly work was done. The case looked hopeless, but be happily used Warner’s safe cure and recovered. That was three years ago, and having ridden his blood of all surplus uric acid, he has remained well until this day. It Is indeed a terrible thing to lose one’s mind, but it is a more terriole thing to suffer such a condition when it cau be so easily prevented.