Hygiene of the brain and nerves and the cure of nervousness : with twenty-eight original letters from leading thinkers and writers concerning their physical and intellectual habits / by M. L. Holbrook.

  • Martin Luther Holbrook
Date:
1878
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Credit: Hygiene of the brain and nerves and the cure of nervousness : with twenty-eight original letters from leading thinkers and writers concerning their physical and intellectual habits / by M. L. Holbrook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    fare which will satisfy the peasantry or sol- diery of European nations. It may be that we shall be compelled to adopt the same method that renders it necessary to give the man who is suffering from delirium tremens a stimulant occasionally, before he can, with- out death, be let down to the platform of to- tal abstinence; and thus our people, to be rid of our national disease, will need to go grad- ually to work and reject piecemeal our too luxurious diet. I often am amazed at the patience, for- bearance, and sweetness of Nature, her long- suffering, before she lets loose the sleuthe hounds of palsy or indigestion upon a man who piles his plate with such vast quantities and such incongruous materials of diet. Some- times, not always, she forbears with him, and simply allows him to pet himself into corpu- lency, and fat men will even boast that they have not seen their feet for twenty years. ]^o brain of any magnitude can endure this, and, presto, a vein snaps and the man is Felled, as butcher felleth ox, and we call it apoplexy, when another name would be nearer the truth.