Remarks on the disorders of literary men, or, An inquiry into the means of preventing the evils usually incident to sedentary and studious habits.

Date:
1825
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    came less and less able to sleep quietly, began to talk ineoherently, his reason, unable to re- cover its ascendancy, departed, and was soon followed by his life. Every body who knew, respected and loved him, but in the acquisi- tion of his abundant store of learning, both in his profession and in theology, he had been too zealous, and too forgetful of the care he ought to have bestowed upon his health. Besides these diseases, which may all be referred to the nervous system, there is an- other class which depend on a habit of sit- ting, and that sluggishness of the circulation already alluded to. Such are jaundice, hypo- chondriasis, gout, dysuria, stone, &c, to which we may add the more common affection of indigestion, or weakness of the stomach. Hae- moptysis and consumption, so direful in their effects, are principally caused, in literary men, by the vitious position of the chest in study- ing, and by fatigue from continued effort of the lungs. Such are the dangers which beset the path of science, and such the price too often paid for literary distinction.