Unsoundness of mind / by T.S. Clouston.

  • Thomas Clouston
Date:
1911
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Credit: Unsoundness of mind / by T.S. Clouston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vously excitable adult is a very well-known fact to all physicians. To get the right sort of companionship for a patient threatened with a mental attack is in many cases by far the best medicine. 1 do not say that the nervous should be cut off from rational amusements and pleasant, interesting society. As a matter of fact, many of them would not tolerate this, and it would be bad for them. Many of them require to be taken out of themselves, to be drawn in to taking an interest in the objective rather than in their own subjective feelings, and they find unusual pleasure in suitable social surroundings. The life-history of thousands of men might have been entirely different if their social atmosphere from the age of sixteen to thirty had been suitable to their brain constitution. Marriage.—From the earliest times of civilization the importance of marrying into the right stock” has been more or less realized. Royal and aristocratic families among most peoples, except the Turks, took infinite pains in mating to secure true blue ” blood, but it is only of late years, since the study of heredity has become a part of science, that what may be called marriage on scientific principles has attracted much attention. Plato’s ideal Republic and his theories of marriage never took any practical shape. The present scientific views on the subject are making large numbers of young men and young women, as well as their parents and guardians, ask the question, What risk will there be to posterity if certain marriages are contracted, and how best make the selection of partners so as to diminish the possible risks ? ” Doctors are now con- sulted on this question scores of times for every once they were consulted fifty years ago. The science of Eugenics, as taught by Galton and his followers, depends chiefly for any practical result on the selection of suitable partners in life on the part of both sexes. Looking to unsoundness of mind in its relation to marriage, it is certain that no disease and no tendency
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