This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... of the disease. This caution is peculiarly necessary, in view of the very common use of these articles at the present time, --so common as to be regarded by a large portion of the race as one of the normal habits of modern life. Excessive bodily exertion, by deranging some of the functions of organic ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... of the disease. This caution is peculiarly necessary, in view of the very common use of these articles at the present time, --so common as to be regarded by a large portion of the race as one of the normal habits of modern life. Excessive bodily exertion, by deranging some of the functions of organic life, may thus indirectly occasion mental disease, and therefore should be cautiously used by the class of persons in question. I have already adverted to the fact that no small amount of insanity in this country, especially among the young, married, American women of the humbler classes, is produced by a degree of daily toil greatly beyond their power of endurance, and unenlivened by sufficient recreation or amusement. That the health of our women has been depreciating during the last, forty or fifty years, is a fact too lamentably patent to be questioned. To be exempt, for a twelvemonth, from some bodily ailment, or that kind of delicate health which is but a slight remove from it, has become a fact of no common occurrence. When persons thus constituted are forced, by the circumstances of their position, beyond their strength, it is not strange that, where predisposition to disease exists, the brain should become the suffering organ. They contribute very largely to swell the number of cases charged to " ill-health," in the table of causes which forms a portion of most of our hospital reports, --a number which has been steadily increasing, until it predominates over every other. The evil is so much the more deplorable, as it seems to be beyond the reach of any practicable remedy. A single morbific agency might be met and overcome; but when the evil results, as it does in this case, from a host of adverse agencies, --a climate changeable, and...
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