Remarks on the influence of mental cultivation and mental excitement upon health / By Amariah Brigham.
- Brigham, Amariah, 1798-1849.
- Date:
- 1845
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on the influence of mental cultivation and mental excitement upon health / By Amariah Brigham. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![among those who lived well—who eat freely seve- ral times a day of the most nutritious food. By some it is said that tobacco, snuff, tea, coffee, but- ter, and even bread, cause this complaint ; but who- ever will make inquiries on this subject throughout the community, will find that this is seldom true. In fact, dyspepsia prevails, according to my ex- perience, altogether the most among the very temperate and careful—among those who are tem- perate and careful as regards what they eat and drink, and the labour they put upon the stomach; but exceedingly careless how much labour they put upon that more delicate organ, the brain. Such people often eat nothing but by the advice of the doctor, or some treatise on dyspepsia, or by weight; nor drink any thing that is not certainly harmless; they chew every mouthful until they are confident on mature reflection, that it cannot hurt the stomach. Why then are they dyspeptics? Because, with all their carefulness, they pay no regard to the excitation of the brain. They con- tinue to write two or three sermons or essays in a week, besides reading a volume or two, and ma- gazines, reviews, newspapers, &c., and attending to much other business, calculated to excite the mind.* * “Perhaps the greatest and most general cause of nervous affections, particularly in men, is the great increase of mental] 16*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33027985_0181.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
