The philosophy and mechanical principles of osteopathy / by Andrew Taylor Still.

  • Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor), 1828-1917.
Date:
1902
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Credit: The philosophy and mechanical principles of osteopathy / by Andrew Taylor Still. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    added, you can see the wheels of his head are whizzing off three hundred and seventy-five vibrations per minute. And at this time he adds the duties of a carpenter, with three hundred more revolutions. Add them together, and you see six hundred and seventy-five. To this number he adds the duties and thoughts of a sheriff, which are numerous enough to buzz his wheels at fifteen hundred revolutions more, and you find twenty-one hun- dred and seventy-five to be the count of his mental revolutions so far. Now you have the great physical demands added to the mental motion which his brain has to support, yet he can do all, so far, fairly well. He now adds to his labors the manufacturing of leather from all kinds of hides, with the chemistry of fine tanning, and this adds a strain equal to the sum of all previous mental motions. Add and you find forty-two hundred and fifty revolutions all drawing on his brain each minute of the day. Add to this men- tal strain the increased action of his body which has to perform the duties, and you have the beginning of a worry of both mind and body, to which we will add manufacturing of engines, iron- smelting, rolling, etc.; send him as a delegate to a national con- vention, give him thoughts of the death of a near relative, and add to this a security debt to meet during a money panic. By this time the mind begins to fag below the power of resistance. A continuance of these great mental vibrations for a long time finally stops nutrition of all or one-half of the brain, and we have a case of hemiplegia,'' or the wheels of one-half of the brain run so fast as to overcome some fountain of nerve- force and explode some cerebral artery in the brain and deposit a clot of blood at some motor supply center or plexus. Thus we find men from over mental action fall in our national councils, courts, manufactories, churches, and in almost all places of great mental activity. Slaves and savages seldom fall victims to paralysis of any kind, but escape, for they know nothing of the