Essay on the disorders incident to literary men: and on the best means of preserving their health : read before the Royal Society of Literature, Nov. 5, 1834 ... / By W. Newnham.

  • William Newnham
Date:
1836
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Credit: Essay on the disorders incident to literary men: and on the best means of preserving their health : read before the Royal Society of Literature, Nov. 5, 1834 ... / By W. Newnham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and to save it from that fatigue which only pre¬ cedes exhaustion by a very short interval. Fifthly, Cultivate friendly and relative society. It is of the very first importance to avoid that isolation of feeling, that concentration of thought and action, which so frequently attend upon the literary devotee, from the nature of his pursuits, and the little sympathy that others show towards him : and in order to accomplish this, let the connecting links with society be kept clear and distinct ; let the social affections be developed, and these will tend, more than any other observance, to preserve him from evil: in fact, the exercise of the affec¬ tive, will relieve the burden of the intellectual faculties. Sixthly, In order to fulfil the same indication to which all these directions point,—that is, to take off from the brain the tension of uniform and exclusive pursuit,—let a certain portion of each day be allotted to bodily exercise. No time will be ultimately lost from this suspension of labour; since by it the health will be preserved, the tone of the cerebral fibre will be sustained, and the brain will be able to accomplish more, far more,
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