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

  • Amariah Brigham
Date:
1844
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    of parents, who arc ambitious of holding forth their children as specimens of extraordinary talent, are constantly presenting themselves to our view, in a train of nervous symptoms, and of susceptibility to ordinary impressions, which frequently pave the way, to decided ])arox}'sms of convulsions.” The same dangerous consequences, resulting from the premature development of the intellect, have often been noticed by medical men in the United States, and one of the most distinguished has thus happily referred to them, in a recent and able work. “ In an early age, before the organism has acquired its proper development, the brain its perfect consolida- tion, or the organs are confirmed in the order of their existence, premature exercises of the intellectual faculties are the source of many disorders. By the undue excitement of the brain, its organic functions are augmented unnaturally, the organic actions of the organs of nutrition, secretion, &c. are enfeebled; the muscular system is stunted and debilitated; ^6 the nervous system becomes morbidly irritable; and the |! brain subject to a variet}'- of affections. Those highly gifted with precocious intellects possess miserable health, and are generally short lived; they are cut off ! 5.5 Practical Observations on the Convulsions of Infants. Ry . I John North. [5G When the hotly is growing’ rapidly tliere is a great dralt of 11 nervous energy made upon the lirain to eltect the growth. If, there- 1 fore, the brjiin is worked much at this time, a deficient supftly of • surh energy is sent to the frame, and, as a natural consequence, the B process of growtli is checked, —R. M.