How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    clisoixler a sjiecialty often have all that they can do ? One of the most noted of them, Di’. S. ^eir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, in his valuable little hook, “ Wear and Tear; or, Hints for the Over- worked,” page 4G, says :— “ All classes of men who use the brain severely, and who have also—and this is important—sea- sons of excessive anxiety or grave responsibility, are subject to the same fomi of disease; and this is why, I presume, that I, as well as others who are accustomed to encounter nervous disorders, have met with numerous instances of nervous ex- haustion among merchants and manufacturers. “ IMy note books seem to show that manufac- turers and certain classes of railway officials are the most liable to suffer from neural exhaustion. Next to these come merchants in general, brokers, &c.; then, less frequently, clergymen; still less often, lawyers; and, more rarely, doctors ; while distressing cases are apt to occur among the over- schooled young of both sexes.” And while the more active among business men run into this sort of danger, those less exposed to it still do little or nothing to give themselves sound, vigorous bodies, so as to gain consequent energy and health, and so they go through life far less efficient and useful men than they might have been. Hence their sons have to suffer. The boy
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