Abstract

WITH ELOISEMUSIC AS HOSPITAL’ M. D., pleasureDETROIT,MIcH.M. ALTSHULER,Limited time makes it impossible to enter into details of four years’ experience with music at Eloise. We shall confine ourselves, therefore, to the broader theoretical aspects, the general principles, and the major techniques. Dr. Samuel W. Hamilton in his preface to Music in Institutions by van-de-Wall expresses the following fecund thought: “Medicine, music, engineering-indeed every body of knowledge or practice-lives through a long period of empiricism before it can be formulated and passed along by any method except the most intimate apprenticeship. It is but yesterday that fever therapy was put under control for the benefit of the victims of a certain disease of the brain. Liver has been a foodstuff for ages, but only a few years ago we learned that a baffling and formerly fatal disease can often be checked byits use.”by arousing“. . .interest..According to W. Cannon, music arouses emotions and releases adrenalin and perhaps other hormones.” The capacity of music to arouse emotion can be linked withof music.Biologi-Why Because order, Musicaldoes music affect human beings? tone and rhythm, put into proper appeal to the pleasure principle. rhythm, which has a strong affinityto bodilyopportunity erotisationrhythm,Id,in open The