Talks to my patients : hints on getting well and keeping well.

  • Gleason, Rachel B. (Rachel Brooks), 1820-1905.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Talks to my patients : hints on getting well and keeping well. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    to grapple with life's labors, and as for the moral force, it is expended more in ideas or emotions than in any distinct grappling with the wants of this sin-stricken world. How often we hear persons say, My wrist, or my ankle, or my back is weak from overwork! We can say the same of many a mind: it was over-strained, and never recovered its lost power. GYMNASTICS TOR OVEEWOBKED STUDENTS. The introduction of Gymnastics, good and graceful as they are in the work of physical culture, must fall short of their full advantages, when the pupils are pressed tor hard in their studies. We can not eat a cake and have it, too. We can not use up all our life-force in mental work, and have it for muscular action. Scholars over-burdened with book work seem languid, lazy even, because the life-force, which goes from brain to body, is so exhausted that muscular inspiration is lacking. If we wish students to enter with spirit and profit into physical exercise, they must not be exhausted by study, for exercise does not create nerve-power, but exhausts it in such a way as to improve appetite, digestion, and assimila- tion, and replenishes the fountain, just as the steam-engine must use part 01 its force to supply itself with water, out of which to make steam. So, we must use some of our nerve-power to supply mere bodily wants, or we shall have no steam with which to do our thinking.