Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — SAYS HE CAN CURE INSANE. [ARTICLE]

SAYS HE CAN CURE INSANE.

St. Louis Doctor Claims Paranolla Mnai Yield to His Treatment. Dr. C. Bernstorff of St. Louis, Mo„ has made the announcement that he has discovered a positive and penna* nent cure for Insanity, restricting hie declaration to those cases that come under the head of paranoila and what alienists call the gradual breakdown of the mental system due to over-brain exertion. Dr. Bernstorff appeared at the four courts and appealed to the police and the press representatives to agree upon a deserylng case which he states he will undertake free of charge simply to show that he Is sincere In his statement. “I have cured five cases so far,” he said, “and wish to demonstrate that I can cure others. You see, I have had some trouble with the medical fraternity because I will not give out the secret of my treatment. I would like to state in advance that I do not pretend to cure cases of insanity due to severe injuries to the head or where persons were born idiots. That is impossible. But in other cases I will cure in from four to eight weeks.” Dr. Bernstorff holds high rank as a physician and his es-

pecial study has been neurology. He is firm in his statement and will accept any patient pronounced Incurably insane which is named by any paper or by the police.