Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-01-16
THE SCIENCE OF TRAVELLING.
The Dangers of Hurrying--Fast Trains the
Most Fatiguing.


Most Fatiguing.
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 one has suffered
permanent dilatation of the heart in
hurrying to catch train; many one
has dropped down dead from the same
cause
Hurrying in catching trains tends to
weakness of the nervous system, to in
digestion and to heart disease, to say
nothing of the risk of catching cold
from sitting down in carriage heated,
in cases where the person has to walk
quickly instead of riding.
For large number of different kinds
of complaints change of air and scene
is prescribed for patients; and long
journeys have to be made in railway
carriages; it behooves the invalid, there
fore, to look well after his comforts in
travelling, and not to neglect the
slightest precaution to make the journey
easy.
Let him not--or rather, l should say
let her not, for ladies are more apt to
err in this way than gentlemen-let her
not, then, fidgct and worry herself a
week beforehand, thinking of the jour-
ney, 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 concussing action
on the brain, of which have .already
spoken. For railway travelling has q
numbing-I had almost said narcoti-
sing g-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 CONNER
cial men as there is between 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 de-
rive more benefit from that mode OF
life than staying constantly in town.
To one not accustomed to railway jour-
neys, the noise, the rattle, and dust are
very fatiguing, but your constant trav-
eler soon gets over this.
when l have to make journey of
fifty miles by railway" said a we'll
known author to me the other day, II
always go first-class for cheapness
sake" The explanation is this Did
this gentleman travel third-class, he
would be incapacitated for clear, steady
brain-work next day, and would thus
be out of pocket far more than the diff.
| ference between the two fares. The
| jolting of a railway carriage over the
smoothest road tends to concuss the
brain, to stupefy, to stultify it, and {
period of rest must ensue before it is
again fit for brilliant mental labor
Brain-workers, like my friend the au
thor, not much used to travelling, woulC
naturally be more cognizant of thi:
than others. And invalids would fee
it, too; therefore l say that the latter
can not travel over-carefully as regard.
their comforts, when they travel at all
1t is often, if not always, matter o
moment for the invalid to get over thu
journey as quickly as possible. Fas
trains, however, are certainly the mos
fatiguing, so if time can be spared tn
invalid should adopt the slower methoC
of progression. - CaSSelFs Family Nag
dzine.