Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters : with cases / by Andrew Scott Myrtle.

  • Myrtle, Andrew Scott
Date:
1869
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    anything like certainty, assign to its proper cause the symptoms I have spoken of as indicative of nervous exhaustion. Admitting this, I would, at the same time, point to the fact, that our great intellects and profound thinkers—men of genius, philosophers, states- men, scholars—men who actually work their minds night and day—are not, as a rule, afflicted with what I have described as jaded brains ; and that the men who are, as a rule, are neither remarkable for mental culture, nor for the possession of master minds, although they may be remarkable for the energe and enterprise they display in their intercourse with their fellows. The inference I feel disposed to draw is, that the anxieties, cares, and doubts which beset the business man, tell, first of all, upon his sympathetic system, the nerves of organic life, and through them, upon the brail], cerebellum, and spinal cord.