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MARY'S
NEW MIND
Yes-the operation worked
...but the really good. news is just beginning
by MERRICK WINN~
WALKED around the big ward, but could not see Mary. A woman moaned, and went on moaning, and I went over, but it wasn't Mary.
Two beds away a woman sat up reading, smiling slightly at
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I said to a nurse: "I thought and the nurses were doitily Mary Cam was in this ward." beaming because, I suppose, we The nurse said: "She is. Over all love love,
there" She pointed back to
the woman reading,
л
form
of
London Express Bervice.
You wouldn't recognise Mary now-after, her operation. She reads. She smiles. Sho wears lipstick. She has won back her vanity..
together and he told me:~~
I wish the story could end here, with everyone happy, and Mental illness So this was Mary. Come perhaps it can. back from hor dead world. often does have a happy ending. Living again. Don't wonder But foo often it does not.
Inissed her.
You can
So I praise to the high blue ten why-in the big picture.
skies Mary's surgeon and his mental illness besides, is some- This is fair, I would also say, perplexed. We had a meal She had lipstick on and modern
modified thing quite different. The price scarf around her hoad, to hide
is, to be exact, 4.7 per cent of the sear, Woman's vital vanity.
the money Britain officially You can't know how viini it is
spends on medical research. until you have seen a woman.
This 4.7 per cent is the amount lose It.
the Medical Research Council allocato for psychiatrie research. Lease than a twentieth. With mental disorder by tar the commonest serious illness in nothing to do with leucotomy. modem. Britain.
And I is, Incidentally, banned "mulating
1 had not expected so much, nor did I now expect too much. She still had some of the old schizophrenic symptoms. Not many, and only slight
She said: "I
fine
I want to go home." But she
id not talk a lot. Or she
would start talking, thon trail
off. Now and then she seemed
lo stare back at her old, dead world. But she came back quickly,
Good sign
Her smile tytip
warmer,
வ
THIS is Mary is she was be.
but not yot really wards. fore the most
having watched several of these operations, in different hospitais, that patients nowadays are selected with very much greater care. Not always, but almost Always.
But the controversy goes cx, Broadmoor, the hospital for the criminal insane, will have
A psychiatrist who knew about in Russin as Mary said 'to' me! We have operation."
to face our so-called modern physical treatment are crudo and unscientifle.
"One day we're going to be, appalled that we ever used them."
"Mary has been sent back to the mental hospitat for three weels observation, Before she comes home. But it doesn't seem right, does it? Sending her back to the old scenes,!!
It seems all wrong, But you can't blame the mental hospitals when this sort of thing has to happen, What with Înck of money and so on, they are, although Improving, badly up against it even in thla Mental Health Year (though Mary In in one of the better ones),
Then I told him what the new The medical superintendent of drugs might do for Mary if she A mental hospital with 3,000 ever needed them and I fold patients told me: haven't him something elsq..... had one in my hospital for three, "I've just heard from the
years.
Obsolete
#
I'm glad
He is probably right, Electro-. shock. therapy, the famous CT relleves vast misery though it
surgeon. He says I can tell didn't help Mary).
Ho added: "You can almost you he's already so pleased with It can often relieve in weeks compare leucotomy to cutting off Mary he doesn't seriously think controversial the grave depressions which the patient's leg for blood- any longer she'll relapse at all," She WAS troubled about operation in modern surgery, used to last peirs, --
polcaning Before the days of the wountal moaning. This was She was a woman f a desd Vel nobody knows how it penicillin. Now we are finding a good sign. She was no longer world, doomed almost by the works. Nobody can say with new drugs, and soon perhaps alone. The world
was real doctors' verdict: "Outlook very rertainly that it is not splits, we will have the gelellins of aruin.
poor," Then
came her last ting peas with a pile-driver. It mental illness,
He said: This is wonderful. And this was, after only eight chance--and a surgeon operats is sed because it is the best The new drigs ore - tranée raally.
He wonderful." days. The surgeon, who had ed.....
we have because we know no forming the whole picture. cager, excited spilling : his told me to expect nothing for
better.
Through them, leucotomy is coffee; a man golfing, his wife fortnight, Shid: **I*272 very leucotomy, as it has worked so It is surely the same with, already cbsolete for many cases, back after six years and, pleased, She's much better far for Mary.
Ieucotomy, Low neuro They are reducing the number way, as much back from the than T'd hoped."
But leucotomy cannot cure surgeons-very few-claim it to of treatments by ECT
"dead" as she was. But the loo said: "It may busla causes, It may caso be the operation of the future. be four to six month before i symptoms, and much misery, Mary's surgeon hopes it will can be really sure."
and this is a mighty thing, But become moro and moro Mary's Bo for it leaves
causes operation of the past, untouched,
That some evening husband and I went to see her together. I was a littio unBERRY, recalled the surgeon asiding him: "Do you still love your wife?" And his quiet answer "Sho im't
the girl I married, Air,
So I planned to stay with them through the visitor's wit- hour, in friendly support, I left in fòur, minutca,
.
The surgeon had already warned Mary's husband that she could relapse,
And he told me: "She could be all right for five years, then an eight back. It it happened, I could operate again.”
The price
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was
in t
It
But they, too, have a draw- Later he said: "I'm glad an. back. Nobody knows for certain you're writing our story.
how they work, because nobody, should
lot of knows the causes of mental people." hiness. There is, however, hope, A research doelor tald me: "I believe if we really had the
He told me. It is now much money Wo could and out the more precise and accurate. We causes and cures in five to ten CAD basura suitable patients that year.
I sold: "You'd be surprised how many poople, will ättels ine for writing it." He asked. why, they answered himself:--- "You mean they'll accuse you
of upselling relatives of people who have "had leucotomies?^^ [
it does not impale memory or "There won't be my onu dure. intelligence and that if there There will still be neod, for is any change in personality it paychotherapy, · and perhaps, Ho understood, all right, "Ho is umtally insignificant--and not. In some cases, brain, surgery. went on! "But what you meant They kised each other; and
mecessarily undesirable,
"But he main weapons will be of course is leucotomy In then simply eat there, holding had long talk with this
"Mary for, instance
cases liko may be drugs, dealing with known justified now, in hands, looking into one another's surgeon. We talked about the apatheile for a while and need causes, I believe that oven in Mary's, but we can't go on just eyen, smiling.
disaster of the old form of pushing a bit, But this im't Ove years we could have drugs accopiing it." She said "You took thin-Beucotomy and head: "I bad mog when you con- which could control, if not curThis is what I did mean. We you wan't eating enough." He poor consolation to put them aider what she was."
30 per cent of the major inental have to find other, better ways. cake 'm, all; mihip...
down to
".
Then they were silent again, experience the price of Then he added: "But & con- flincties
- aider leucotomy, Jusilied only Five Yeara! Hora was one
when he was Amhappy and
we don't them we have to for forgiveness, to peoplis like Mary.
**London-Kapreny Rarulon)..
and happy, apparently, siliWATO For The price of wash when all other means of treat thing to saver mary husband that 1 and the other visitors disasters, and perhaps of much ment have failed,”
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