Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-01-26


sanity into moral, Or those arising from
the passions, emotions and affections. and
physical, or those arising from some bod
lily disorder or disease, and these may al
1,so be ipre-disnosiag or exciting. For ex-
.emple, an individual has been for length
zof time suffering from some bodily dis
ease which has seriously undermined the
health, when vivid moral impression
NAV be made in some sudden and unex-
tpected manner, and the mind gives way.
or thereverse condition may occur. A
moral cause, steadily acting, may pro-
duce bodily disease, or unpleasant news
has often taken away the appetite, disor-
dered,the stomach and caused sleepless
nights, and often a long lingering feye~
or other illness, and thus a moral aifeC
tion may originate a physical disease
! Nothing will hasten an attack of sinsani,
! ty more rapidly than. continued loss of
] sleep, from the deleterious influence it ex
erts over all the bodily functions, He
who can secure sound, regular sleep for:
six or eight hours; each day may much
more,surely count on good bodily and
mental health than he who passes aIsx-
ious days and sleepless nights. Any one
who has felt the exceeding discomfort a.
rising from loss Of sleep for, one or two,
successive nights, may readily conceive
what influence may be, exerted on the.
mind and bodily systemlby7 the continu-I
ence of such loss and the wear and tear
induced by constant daily yawerk rsuperad-
| cd. JdI individuals in. this state of distress
and discomfort, unable to account, for
their miserable feelings, takeIto reading
the Bible OF freqpenting religious meet
ings,ii in the hope of relief, but it comes
not in this way, and they persevere with
more agonizing Importantly until the
mind gives way, and the friends lay the
blame on religion. The instructive. feel
ing of all men in distress is; to turn to re-
ligion for1help and relief, too often. over
looking the all important fact that sound
physical health is essential to right views
OF religion, and that the advice Of a ply
sician would, properly, followed, .speediJ
ly dispel their uneasyrand unhea4tby SEN
sations, and qaulify them more fully to
discharge their moral and religious, 3 as
well as their social duties. We commend
the principle explained in the following
extract from the report ofDr. kirk BRIDE
Of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the In
sane ofiPhiladelphia, distinguished for
dis experience and his ripe judgment to
the candid consideration of every one: d
d fAyoung man ofvery moderate men
tai capacity, little, education, and ,accus-
toned to laborious occupation, from too
much confinement at his business finds 4
his health failing, and gives up his em-
.p1oyment for a few months, to recruit. - /,
at the end Of that time, although not
well, he is able to return to work, but !
then discovers that the, changes in the
times. .nakesit impossible for him to find
any. thing to do. :. His means being ex-l
hausted, his body weak, without his Gus
tomary exercise, his mind became grad
.ually in q morbid state, when some ex-
.citement from Miiler's prophecy occur
'iu his neighborhood, he Immediately at 1
tempts to study the subject, and to as
certain the truth from a close study of
the Bible-an investigation utterly un-a 1
suited for his capacity under any cifcum- 4
stances and the difficulties he encount-
ers at the very threshhold,' lead to q evio..I
lent attack Of mania. The disease was
attributed to Miller's prophecy, OF to relis |
gious excitement, but neither of these1I
causes would give q proper idea of the
origin ofthe case. Before being excited |
on that subject, the patients mind waseI
ready to be overturned by any abstruse
or exciting matter that might Be ,presen-I
ted to il. Without his loss of employ
nr2rt thisl WoT1d not ha.iiei oeelirred and
without the ciifeeblcd health, which ae-l
eompanied II. his attempted investigation
might have been harmless" "ijsD. NJ d. I'd