Nerve-waste / by George Van Ness Dearborn.

  • Dearborn, George V. N.
Date:
[1913], [©1913]
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Credit: Nerve-waste / by George Van Ness Dearborn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nervous system, chief connector as it is of body and mind. Pleasant feelings as contrasted with unpleasant are rep- resented chiefly by the healthy activi- ties of certain brain-processes, about which we are learning more every year, but which it would be difficult to discuss suitably here. NERVE-WASTE LOWERS THE BODY'S RESISTANCE TO DISEASE. The lowering of the tone of the ner- vous system has a most powerful effect for harm and danger in its depression of the bodily powers of resistance to disease-attacks. The mode of action of this important nerve-influence on the blood also is too complex to be here described, but its great importance must be clear to everyone who has ob- served such relations at all in himself or in his associates. Infections come chiefly when we ''get run down. This expression means largely a low- ered balance of nerve-wealth, too little of it being left to maintain the blood's basal powers of resistance to disease. Here is a danger of continued nerve-