The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-09

oped and more easily concealed They
are made up of suppressed anger and
morose determination, and keep the
sufferer from rest He is led to neglect
the necessities OF his own existence.
Is rendered feverish and feeble, and &c
last sinks into chronic despondency and
Iirr;tability or rushes into some act that
indicates disoTdered mind.
The effect of fear is almost identical
with that of rage, and like rage the eff
fects grow with repetition. It is almost
certain that the evils resulting from fear
upon the young and the feeble are not
duly appreciated, and that fear is one of
the worst weapons of physical torture
the thoughtless coward can use. The
organs upon which fear exerts its iniu-
rious influence are the organic nervous
chain, the heart, and the brain. Perma-
nent intermittency of the heart is one Of
the leading phenomena incident to sud-
den and extreme terror. The effect of
fear upon the brain is much like that
produced by extreme rage, SO that sudden
death may result from syncope. From a
sudden terror deeply felt the young
mind rarely RECEIVERS, and never believe
If hereditary tendency to insanity be a
part Of its nature.
The effects of grief varies according
to the suddenness or slowness of the
attack. Sudden grieftell chiefly upon
the heart, leading to irregularity in the
extreme parts of the circulation. Some
times resulting in bleeding at the lungs,
local paralysis Of the lip and tongue
aud failure OF sight. When the or eff
is less sudden and more prolonged, the
Wan5 of power and intermttency Of the
circulation is again the most common
phenomena and most easily developed
in women, utcases have occurred among
men of strong habit but sensitive feeling.
From the irregularity of the circulation
of the blood induced by prolonged grief,
varied phenomena in the nervous matter
| follow, and in persons who have passed
the middle of life these phenomena are
usually permanent if not progressive.
They consist Of organic feebeness ex-
tending to all the active organs of the
body, especially the mental organism.
The worst that happens in these instan-
ces is the gradual premature encroach-
ment of dementia previous to death.
Under some circumstances, the pas
slons, excited In turn, injare by the com
bined influence of their action. In
games of chance, whsre money is at
stake, we see the play of the worst pas
sions in ali their mischievous intensity.
Fear and anger, hate and grief, hope and
exultation, stand forth, one after the
other. keeping the treptant heart in
constant excitement and under tremulous
strain, until at length its natural steadi-
ness of motion is transformed into IN
natural irregularity which if it does not
remain permanent, is called up on the
slightest irritation.
Political excitements ca forth readily
the reel of passions with dangerous en-
ergy. Few men can pass through an
active political excitement without inju.
ry. AS they pour forth their eloquence
or rude speech, as tbey4 extol or con
denim, as they cheer or hiss, as they
threaten or cajoe, they are taking out
Of themselves force they will never re-
gain.
When to political excitement is added
the excitement of war, especially civil
war, the effects on the civil life of the
people is at once marked by disturbance
of nervous balance. They represent
much Of the minor but still formidable
physical injuries to the heart and BRAIN
which stop short of real insanity, but
which reduce life, and which pass in
line from the generation which receives
them primarily to the generations that
have tc come.
The reel of the passions as cause Of
of modern life rests not alone
with the excitement of gaming, of politi
cal strife, of war. It is stirred up By
some fanatical manifestation for the
of the world, which are
we'll meant, but which, missing the mark,
plant degeneration instead. In one
sentence, then, whenever, from undue
excitement any kind, the passions are
TO overrule the reason. the