The maintenance of health : a medical work for lay readers / by J. Milner Fothergill.

  • Fothergill, J. Milner.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The maintenance of health : a medical work for lay readers / by J. Milner Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    XU Making tli0 Most of the Strong Points—Natural Senses—The T; I he Hand Polisher—Vision—Defects of—Daltonism, or Cc PAGE gion of the Age ’—The Price of Success . . 202 CHAPTER IX. OVERWORK, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL BANKRUPTCY. Hugh Miller—Justice Willes—Effects of Overwork—Toil in the Young —The Manufacturing Population—Employment of Children—Agri- cultural Gangs—Labour in the Mill and Mine—The Pactory Act- Cause of Difference—Comparison—The Oxygen Respired—Enslaved Communities—The Preservation of the Negro—Man’s Reserve Eund of Force-Means of Drawing upon it—Effects of a Sudden Demand —Effects of Rest or Convalescence—Stimulants or Bill-drawing— Retrenchment—Living beyond One’s Income—Physiological Capital —Living 1 Fast ’—How to Repay the Loan—Stimulants Not always Necessary—The term Physiological Bankruptcy Overwork—Excessive Study—‘ Training off’ and ‘ Training on’—The Demands of the Race after Riches—Effects of Overwork—The Last Half-hour—Irritability and Exhaustion—Forgetfulness of Names— ‘The missing Leaf’—Impaired Sense of Individuality—Physical Troubles Da Costa—Rest and Repair. Tension—Illustrations of Effects of modified by Physical Conditions—Brain-worry—Effects of Physical Conditions upon the Mind and Thought—Mental Pain- Melancholy from Liver Disturbance—Effects of Gout Poison—Of Visceral Disturbance—Schroeder van der IColk and Voltaire Per- niciousness of Brooding over Troubles — Morbid Thoughts may Conquer the Will—Effects of Loss of Sleep—Narcotics—Bad effects of Chloral-hydrate—The best Means of Procuring Sleep CHAPTER X. MENTAL STRAIN—OVERWORK AND TENSION.