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

William Blaikie

Date:: 1892

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

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$one book only, but often six or eight, instead of looking light and strong and free, she is too often what she really appears to be, pale and w'eak. So many books suggest a large amount of work for one day, certainl}^ for one evening, and the im- pression received is that she is overworked ; while the truth frequently is that the advance to be made in each book is but trifling, and the aggre- gate, not at all large, by no means too great for the same girl were she strong and hearty. It is not the mental work which is breaking her down, but there is no adequate physical exercise to build her up. See what ex-Surgeon-General Hammond says, in his work on “ Sleep,^^ as to the ability to endure protracted brain-work without ill-result: “ It is not the mere quantity of brain-work which is the chief factor in the production of disease. The emotional conditions under which work is per- formed is a far more important matter. A man of trained mental habits can bear with safety an al- most incredible amount of brain-toil, provided he is permitted to work without distraction or excite- ment, in the absence of disquieting cares and anxieties. It is not brain-work, in fact, that kills, but \)\'Q.m-worry The girl, of course, has not the strength for the protracted effort of the matured man, nor is such effort often required of her. Her studying is done$

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