The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
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The Science Of Travelling.

Hurry to or from trains should in all
cases be avoided. 1t is dangerous to
the healthy habitual traveller, as well as
the invalid. Many a one has suffered
permanent dilatation of the heart in
hurrying to catch train, many one
has dropped down dead from the same
cause. lIurrying in catching trains
tends to weakness of the nervous sys-
TEN, to Indigestion, and to heart dis
ease, to say nothing of the risk of
catching cold from sitting down in the
carriage heated, in cases where the
person has to walk quickly instead of
riding. For large number of differ
ent kinds of complaints change of air
and scene is prescribed for patients, and
long journeys have to be made in rail
way carriages; it behooves the invalid,
therefore, TO look well after his com
forts in travelling, and not to neglect
the slightest precaution to make the
journey easy. Let him motor, rather,
should say let her not, for ladies are
more apt to err in this way than gen.
tlemen-let her not, then, fidget and
worry herself week beforehand,
thinking of the journey, the perils of
the road, including the fatigue. Once
on board and started, invalids never
fail to be quite astonished at the
strength they possess, and at " how
well they bear the journey" This is
very pleasant, but | am sorry to tell
them that their strength, in nine cases
out of ten, is more apparent than real,
| and is due to the conclusive action on
the brain of which / have already
spoken. For railway travelling has a
numbing, | had almost said a narcotic
ing, effect upon the senses. From this
semi-lethargy the patient awakes next
day, but it is very agreeable while it
does last. There is as much difference
between the method of travelling
adopted by these people, and that of
most commercial men, as there is be-
tween the flight of hive-bee and that
of blue-bottle fly. Those people who
have business in the city, but go home
every night TO the country to dine and
| to sleep, have only themselves to
blame if they do not derive more bene-
| fit from that mode of life than staying
constantly in town. To one not accus-
toned to railway journeys, the noise,
the rattle and dust are very fatiguing,
but your constant traveller soon gets
over this. " When l have to make a
journey of fifty miles by railway"
said a well-known author to me the
other day, " always go frst-class for
cheapness' sake" The explanation is
this: did this gentleman travel third
class, he would be incapacitated for
clear, steady FRAMEWORK next day, and
would thus be out of pocket far more
than the difference between the two
fares. The jolting of railway car
riage over the smoothest line tends to
concuss the brain, to stupefy, to stul-
tify it, and period of rest must ensue
before it is again fit for brilliant men,
tallabor. Brain-workers, like my friend
the author, not much used to travelling
would naturally be more cognizant of
this than others. And invalids would
feel it, too; therefore say that the lat.
ter cannot travel over-carefully as re.
CARDS their comforts, when they travel
at all. 1t is often, if not always, a mat
ter of moment for the invalid to get
over the journey as quickly as possible
Fast trains, however, are certainly the
most fatiguing-so, if time can be
spared, the invalid should adopt the
slower method of progression.-A
Family Doctor, an CasselPs Magazine.