Music For the Sick by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 24, 1879

Music For the Sick.

By Editor

WE clip the following from a European journal: "It was the celebrated German physician Hofeland who first fully recognized the curative power of music. Frequently the life of a dying man might be saved by gentle music brought to near his bedside. It is often only to attract his attention and hold it with something that imparts pleasurable feelings, in order to sustain him beyond that moment of supreme exhaustion which marks the crisis of disease. Usually, however, the ears of the dying are regaled with no music sweeter than the sighs and sniffles of their sorrowing friends. Of course they are troubled, depressed, and when the critical breath comes, fail to catch it, and so die. There is much in this theory."