Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-14
FOR CHOLERIC PEOPLE.
A CHAPTER ON THE ADVANTAGES
OF SERENITY.

Uncontrolled Passion Opposed to Lon
gevity of Lire-HeaIth of Mind and Body
Co-Dependent - Facts for the Hot
Blooded to Ponder Over.
Regarding the matter merely from the
hygienie standpoint, effort can be expanded
for the obtanment of few more valuable pos
sessions than calm and even temperament.
Such temperament does not rush to ex-
tremes; it is not swept by whirlwinds of
feeling; under almost any circumstances it
secures content Few things can present a
more insurmountable barrier, not only to
mental ills, but even to physical ailments
and infrmities or yield better grounded
hope of longevity.
Sir Isaac Newton for instance, led the
placid and uneventful if toilsome existence
Of a student and brain worker. The serenity
of his DAYS seems only to have been
disturbed by the controversy with Leib-
nitz regarding the invention of the fuxional
methods, and the quarrel with Flamsteed,
the astronomer royal. How great his equa-
, nimity was-in other words, how thoroughly
reason WIS tiF COMBINING tltlltIl Ill Ills
omi1stion, to the subsection of the pas
sions-appears in the well known story with
regard to his dog Diamond. And what was
the result. His health was vigorous and re-
manned unimpaired to within few years of
his death He lost but one tooth in all his
life He never wore glasses. He never grew
bald, and he lived to the ripe old age of S.
years John Milton, again, lived in troubled
times, in which he bore his full part He
was given, too to polemical writing, which
is apt to excite warm feeling Yet in his
personal habits he was auStere and grave,
holding himself sternly aloof from the prof
lrate rabbla around him, and intlexiblv
steadfast amidst domestic infelicity, ohloquy
and misfortune He could scarcely be called
hot blooIed man, and, after life whose
sole physical affection was the loss of his
eyesight. he died at the age of 66
OTHER NOTABLE INSTANCES.
Contrast with his the brief career of another
famous English poet, Lord Byron Torn as
be was by every passion, and the victim of
that most wearing emotion, chronic hate, a
spirit that furnished the arena in quick sue
cession for the most intense and extreme re.
vulsons Of feeling allowed its pcssesSor an
earthly existence of but thirty-Six short
wears Our own calm Emerson, than whom,
probably, 10 man that ever lived was less
the prey of gusts Of feeling, reached the age
of o. Edgar Poe, who was a sort of emo
tional shuttlecock, was miserable all his life,
and died at 10 Edmund kean, not only in
his professional capacity, was an actor-and
an actor is frequently obliged to feign the
most vehement passions, which is commonly
supposed to be the next worst thing To
actually feeling them-but in his private life
was n man OF most erratic and fiery temper
ament. kean himself was a stage for the
drama Of the passions, and the consequence
was he was frequently i'll, and survived but
few years beyond 40
Passion has been not inaptlv defined as any
emotion of the soul which affects the body
and is affected by it, Such is the sympathy
existing between the mind and the body, tn,
moral feelings exercise potent influence OF
the physical organs, while the latter in turn
affect the former. The effect of menta
emotions is manifested in the vital functions
and certain states of these functions serve il
a like manner TO awaken the different pas
sions. The passions founded on pleasure
seem to act as a universal stimulant to al
vital action. Circulation is quickened, tn
blood distends the vessels of its system, tn
face urightens, the skin assumes a rudd,
tint the muscles grow stronger and iuvit
activity. The whole body is reanimated-il
short, every function responds to tine vitali2
ing influence of the happy moral condition
As Halter says: Love, hope and Joy promot
perspiration, quicken the pulse, promote cir
cuiation, increase the appetite and facilitat
the cure of diseases" While JOY and kindre.
emotions thus contribute to health by Undue
ing a more active performance of all tn
vital functions, as with all other stimuants
the pleasurahle feelings become painful
the bounds of moderation are exceeded
On the nervous system the effect of tn
painful emotions is manifested by depression
arrangement and, possibly, destruction G
the vital energies. The same agencies inhu
ence the various secretions by increasing
diminishing or viuating them When tn
mind is severely and unpleasantly agitateC
dryness OF the mouth testifies to the suppres
sion of the salivary secretion. This is prove
"by the well known test, often reSorted to i
India for the discovery OF a thief among tn
servants ot a family, that of compelling a
the parties o. hsld a certain quantity Of rio
in the mouth during a few minutes, the O.
fender being generally distinguished by tn
comparatiye dryness OF his mouthful.n
PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS.
Under the influence of disturbing passion
certain sccrctl9ns become corrupted an
even acquire poisonous properties It Is
known fact that the bite of an animal goade
to desperation heals less rapidly, and is a
tended with greater Inflammation than OF
administered wheuth system is uninfluenct
by the excited passion. Great mental di
turbance in the mother diminishes or vitiat
the secretion Of her milk, and it becom
hurtful to the nursing child The contra
between the physiological effects of Il
pleasurabla and painful emotions. and the
influence upon health, are obvious to all.
the faces OF the happy and confident is Sc,
the bright glow Of natural vigor, while d
drawn, carcworn and pnlhd features of t
sad and respondent testify to inward sutft
ing
In hahitual irrtability or fretfulness
temper, hatred revenge, envy and jealousl
and in fact, in all dispositions of the mi
characterized by bitter feelings iowa
Others, a measure Of anger is almost neces
rily blended, The effect upon the bod
health of the mind harassed by passions
this nature is to propagate arrangements a
infrmities The appetite lessons, digesti
is impaired, and then follow other function
disorders The nervous system suffers frt
continued metal irritability, and hyster
headache, and other painful affections oft
owe their origin to this prejudicial influen
Physicians well know that when the syst
is laboring under disease temper anna
and tranquil under the little ills and eros
of life encourages recovery, while one cas-
inflamed by the base passions obstruct it,
While the maleyolent feelings with viii
anger is blended are the promptings of an
conditioned mind or uncontrolled tenn
aroused by external influences, they may
excited By unhealthy states of the orga
and thus originate within the body In c
tain functional disturbances and diSeas
conditions, the mind sometimes become {
turhed and the disposition peevish and i'm
able. Persons naturally amiable and patti,
under outward aunoyances will often beco
anxious and tretful when attacked W
bodily intirmlties, Disturbances of
stomach, liver or other important organs
thus active ia porverting reason, and in r
derlng the disposition suspicious, peevish q
morose. Boston Herald.
STORIES TOLD OF LIVING PEOP
BEING PUT IN THE GRAVE.
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