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Will Germany.Crack? and German Home Front

Will Germany.Crack? and German Home Front

German Institute of Psychological Research

A GERMAN Institute of Psychological Research and Psychotherapy has been founded under the auspices of the German Home Office. The members consist of representatives of the Pan-German Medical Society of Psychotherapy, the German Psychoanalytic Society, the Kiinkel co-operative group for “Applied Study of Character” and other well-known psycho-therapeutists. The functions of the Institute will be (1) research, (2) educational and teaching activities, and (3) maintenance of a clinic for the indigent. The director is Prof. M. G. Goring, president of the Pan-German Medical Society of General Psychotherapy.

SMOKE IN RELATION TO HEALTH.

Up to the year 1000 the German home had its fireplace in the center. The smoke escaped through a big hole above, which was covered by a second roof that kept the rain out. Light got in as best it could. The West-phalian home in which I was born was still of that kind, like a hundred thousand other North German peasant dwellings. In the oldest times a few holes were also cut into the sides of the house. My people, however, had small glass windows, but then I was bornin 1830— after Christ, you know. Wood and peat were exclusively used until the end of the twelfth century; coal is mentioned. The first information comes from Lüttich (Liège). In the fourteenth century coal was used in Aix-la-Chapelle; in 1429, about the river Saar. Since that time, but never like the present, was the air filled with carbon dioxid, sulphurous