Essay on the disorders incident to literary men, and on the best means of preserving their health : read before the Royal Society of Literature, Nov. 5, 1834, and dedicated, by permission, to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury / by W. Newnham.

  • Newnham, W. (William), 1790-1865.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Essay on the disorders incident to literary men, and on the best means of preserving their health : read before the Royal Society of Literature, Nov. 5, 1834, and dedicated, by permission, to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury / by W. Newnham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    unfit for intellectual exertion; morbid physical action has commenced; and if allowed to proceed uncontrolled, none can calculate where it may be arrested. It is not the intention of this essay to enter upon the treatment of cerebral disease, but only to point out its danger, and to show the means by which may be secured the largest amount of intellectual exertion, with the least possible in- jury to the physical and mental powers. Attention to the following admonitions will best promote these objects :— First, Seek after contentment and cheerfulness. Where there is a happy state of mind; where things go smoothly, and a halo of gladness and of comfort surrounds and invests the prospect of futurity, and the present path is easy and agree- able, then all goes well : labour is a pleasure, and fatigue is a stranger. But if there be an unhappy and irritable state of mind ; if circumstances pro- ceed perversely, and little unforeseen, and easily avoidable difficulties cross the path, then the very same labour is exhausting, and we soon learn the infirmity which cleaves to our most active duties. Secondly, Introduce order into all your pur-