Remarks on the influence of mental cultivation and mental excitement upon health / By Amariah Brigham.

  • Brigham, Amariah, 1798-1849.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Remarks on the influence of mental cultivation and mental excitement upon health / By Amariah Brigham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    half-idiotic—being ; while under more judicious management, he might have passed through the world in the possession of excellent intellect, and free from a thousand harassing nervous symptoms and idle apprehensions which prove the annoyance of his life. Tull the principle is firmly impressed upon, and recognised by the public, that the brain is the material organ of the mind, and that the latter can only manifest itself powerfully through the medium of a healthy organ, things can never be otherwise ; and people will go on taxing the brain beyond its powers, and thus giving it an un- natural, but short-lived, energy, like to the ephe- meral invigoration communicated to the muscles during a paroxysm of madness. The brain being impaired by such early excess of exertion, the mind, as a natural consequence, is destitute of a healthy medium of manifestation, and displays itself in a feeble and imperfect form, for the same reason that the most sparkling gem is beheld dimly and indistinctly if seen through a current of muddy water. ‘To force the organ of the mind to such immoderate action, during childhood and youth, as it is often subjected to in modern education,