The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-14 00:00:00

DISEASES OP OVERWORKED MEW.

Time was when the very phrase, diseases of over-
worked 11140. would have been considered foolish, and out
of the garnet Now it conveys a truth of national im-
pottance, whisk the norm meet earider. item being a
coin "sely idle world, we have of late become as WWII*
world on the subject of labour. So long as the muscles
merely were employed, so long little harm was dose ; we
remained men ; sow we aspire to be sods, sad we gay
the forfeit of our ambition. From overwork we sow
get a clam of diseases the most prolonged, the most
fataL The suns of our bed men go dowu at sous, sad so
accustomed are we to the phenomenon that we mesa
to regard it as either strange or out of place. It is threads
the mind, now, that the body is destroyed by artwork :
at all evenly it is so meanly. The ma of Weer
thought—men of letters, men of bursae who
think and speculate, men of the State who are
ambitious to rule, these men are seetlealli WWI
thorn, the brain Ms not merely to act on its over mellekule
bidding them perform their necessary duties, bet the or
brain wort seeds guide a hundred other braise, and an the
muscles thereto appended. As Omni* bettesy work@
a single wire from the City to Brighton, and does its
work well, and goes on for some mesas before
it is deed or worn oat. Oast it do the week of
a hundred wires ? oh, yes. it can. but it mad ham more
acid, must wear faster, and will ultimately die roam
We may protect the pktee, nuke the battery to as extent
self-regoserative as this body a, but is the mein the waste
is in excess of the @apply, and the wear is amnia es the day.
Men of letters, men of busbies. who do their busier
through ether Made and do treat business, and men Iw.
roomed in politica, sutler much the sure kind of ether
from overwork. They induce in themselves. usually. when
they staffer from this cause see or other of the following
maladies Cardimc melancholy, or brobee heart
dyspepsia, acomnpanied with great loos of phosphorus
from the body ; diabetes, c‘ nsumptioe, paralysis, local and
general ; apoplexy, insanity, premature old age. They also
sad* mere them other men from the edema of ordinary dis-
orders. They bear pain indiffereetiv. can tolerate no lower-
ing measures are left long prostrated by simple depressing
maladies, and acquire is some instances a morbid sensibility
whir is redacted in every direction ; so that brighter; of so-
the becomes irritability ; and quiet, stelusion sod mon-r-
-ases. They dislike themselves sad feel that they mast be
disliked and if they marmot to he joyous May laps into
shame at having dissembled sad fall again into gloss—Dr.
Bitslerdsoie, in Social Reims Sevier.

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