Insanity Part 12

_e._ What was the debt of the United States at the close of the Revolution?

2.--Spell the following words and give the definition of them (being prepared to write both the spelling and definition as they are announced by the teacher):

Clarify, Pyrenees, judgment, leguminous, critique, pistachio, deceit, scissors, superficies, idiom, anodyne, filigree, monody, cartouch, committee, tobacco.

3.--Work out and hand in on paper solutions of the following problems:

_a._ What number is that from which if you take 8/14, the remainder will be 1/3?

_b._ What number is that to which if you add 4/9 of 11, the sum will be 44-3/5?

_c._ What number multiplied by 11 will give 44-3/5 for a product?

_d._ What number divided by 4-2/7 will give 243/324 for a quotient?

_e._ What divisor will give 4-2/7 for a quotient, 66 being the dividend?

_f._ What number is that 8/14 of which exceeds 1/2 by 4-2/7?

_g._ What number is that to which if 8/14 of itself be added, the sum will be 66?

_h._ What number is that from which if 1/3 of itself be subtracted, the remainder will be 11?

I call attention: 1st, to the amount of labor and time it will require simply to do the work of the above lesson, even supposing that a cla.s.s of children from eleven to thirteen years of age have the ability, and after five hours in the school-room during the day; and 2d, to the character of some of the requirements.

[5] Before this patient left the Retreat she gave me the following schedule of her daily duties and mode of life while in school:--

"Breakfast at 7 A.M. From 7-1/2 to 8-1/2, did work. Studied from 8.30 to 8.55. From 9 till 1-1/2 o'clock P.M., studied and recited. Dined at 2, and after dinner worked until 3. Then 1/2 hour for recreation. From 3-1/2 till 5-1/2 o'clock, study hours. From 5-1/2 to 6, turns were taken by the pupils in preparing supper. Supper at 6. From 6-1/2 to 7, recreations.

From 7-1/4 to 9, Latin recitations and study."

Other pupils need not have studied so much by 1-1/2 hours.

Comment on the above is unnecessary.

[6] D. H. Tuke: "Insanity and its Prevention."

[7] Quoted by Dr. Tuke.

[8] Since writing the above, the following, in a newspaper published in Chicago, Ill., has come to my attention:

"The chief cause of the 'lumping' system is that, owing to the disappearance of apprentices, a good workman in any trade is becoming a rarity. This leads to the lumping system in two ways: first, there are few workmen who know how to do more than one or two things; second, a vast army of inferior workmen are drifting about who cannot command good wages, and consequently have to work upon the cheapest cla.s.s of work, and these are the only men whom the sub-contractor can afford to employ. According to old master-carpenters and masons, the disappearance of apprentices accounts for the new state of affairs. One of the best carpenters in the city, who owns a shop and does a large business, said: 'It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the race of good workmen is dying out, and that were it not for the immigration of foreign workmen we should be at a loss for men to do even the commonest jobs. The best foreign workmen do not come here at all, finding enough to do at home, so that those we do find are not such workmen as we had twenty years ago; but at least they are better than the men who have failed to learn a trade here. The newspapers say that men do not know their trades nowadays because there is no such thing as apprenticeship. There is no such thing as a legal apprenticeship bond between a boy more than sixteen years of age and an employer; consequently a boy who is taught something useful in a shop, will learn where he can get half a dollar more a week in some other place. A boy will not stay in a shop more than a year without pay; we have to pay them for allowing themselves to be taught a trade. As boys are usually not worth their salt in a carpenter shop, we do without them. The consequence is that boys pick up a trade in a superficial way instead of learning it.'"

[9] "Heredity: A Psychological Study of its Phenomena, Laws, Causes and Consequences," p. 1. Th. Ribot, 1875.

[10] Quoted by Ribot.

[11] "Ill.u.s.trations of Heredity," by J. R. Dunlap.

[12] Quoted by Ribot.

[13] Ribot on "Heredity," pp. 86, 87.

[14] _Journal of Mental Science_, January, 1881.

[15] Dr. McGraw, "Address on Heredity and Marriage," pp. 12 and 15, quoted by Dr. Miles.

[16] Quoted from "Diseases of Modern Life," by B. W. Richardson, M.D. D.

Appleton & Co., 1877, pp. 213 and 214.

[17] "A Sober View of Temperance," by Rev. Daniel Merriam, Bibliotheca Sacra, Oct., 1831.

[18] "Diseases of Modern Life," by B. W. Richardson, M.D. pp. 228 and 229.

[19] The writer is here describing a personal experience.

[20] "After a short time the products of tobacco find a ready exit out of the system. They are thrown out by the three great eliminatories--the lungs, the skin, and the kidneys. The volatile matters exhale by the lungs; * * * while both (nicotine and the bitter extracts), I believe, are carried off by the kidney, the grand eliminator of all poisons of the soluble type."--"Diseases of Modern Life," by B. W. Richardson, M.D., pp.

283 and 285.

[21] Quoted by John Lizars--"The Use and Abuse of Tobacco," New York, 1880, p. 21.