Hints on the connexion of labour with study : as a preventive of diseases peculiar to students; and also as the best expedient for placing a good education within the reach of the poor; to which is appended, the substance of an introductorylecture, on medical education, delivered in October, 1831 / By Thomas D. Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, Thomas D. (Thomas Duché), 1791-1865.
Date:
1832
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    of nervous influence. We have seen, says Dr. Philips,* that withdrawing a considera- ble part of the nervous influence from the sto- mach and lungs, deranges the digestive pow- ers, and produces great difficulty of breath- ing. And if this proposition be accredited, as it unquestionably must, where shall we look for positive evidence of this withdrawing of nervous power, if not to the secluded apart- ment of the student, who seems determined on making his brain the grand focus of all his powers? His habits are destined to rend the ties which associate the principal organs, in harmonious action, and to derange that peace- ful equilibrium of his nervous energy, the loss of which is the unfailing signal of war, a- mong the elements of his constitution. How then does regular exercise on every week day, protect the student who is a stran- ger to fixed disease, from the ordinary, bane- ful consequences of hard study? I answer, precisely on the same principle, which makes exercise salutary to the man already labouring *See his Experimental Inquiry.