The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-07-27

SIOuS- dp III tu0 well kuOWu SCOTy VIII
regard to his dog Diamond. And what wa.
the resnlti His health was vigorous and re
manned unimpaired to within a 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
Il apt to excite warm feeling. Yet in his
personal habits he was austere and grave,
holding himself sternly aloof from the prof.
Hgate rabble around him, and fnflexibly
steadfast amidst domestic infelicity, obloquy
and misfortune. He could scarcely be called
hot blooded man, and, after q 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
he 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-
vulsions Of feeling allowed its possessor an
earthly existence Of but t~hirty-six short
years. Our own calm Emerson, than whom,
probably, mol man that ever lived was less
tho prey Of gusts Of feeling, reached the age
Of %. Edgar Poe, who was q sort of emo
tional shuttlecock, was miserable all his life,
and died at 40. 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 he next worst thing to
actually feeling them-but in his private life
was a mar Of most cratic 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
Q few years beyond 40!
Passion has been not inaptly 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, the
moral feelings exercise . potent influence on
the physical organs, while the latter in turn
affect the former. The effect Of mental
emotions Is manifested in the vital functions.
and certain states Of these functions serve in
q like manner to awaken the different pas
sionA The passions founded on pleasure
seem to net as a universal stimulant to all
vital action. Circulation is ~quickened. the
blood distends the vessels of its system. the
face urightens, the skin assumes a ruddy
tint, the muscles grow stronger and invite
activity. The whole body is reanimated-in
short, every function responds to the vitaliz-
ing influence Of the happy moral. condition.
As Haller says: "Love, hope and joy promote
perspiration, quicken the pulse, promote cir
c~ulation, increase the appetite and facilitate
the cure Of diseases" While joy and kindred
emotions thus contribute to health by induc-
ing q more active performance of all the
vital functions, as with all other stimulants.
the pleasurable feelings become painful if
the bounds Of moderation are exceeded.
On the nervous system the effect of tho
painful emotions is manifested by depression.
arrangement and, possibly, destruction Of
the vital energies. The same agencies inlu-
ence the various secretions by increasing.
diminishing or vitiating them. When the
mind is severely and unpleasantly agitated.
dryness Of the mouth ~testiies to the suppress.
sion of the salivary secretion. This is proved
"by the well known test, often resorted to in
India for the discovery of a thief among the
servants Of a family, that Of compelling ali
the parties to hold a certain quantity Of rice
in the mouth during a few minutes, the of.
fender being generally distinguished by the
comparative dryness of his mouthfuf."
PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFEcTs.
Under the influence Of disturbing passions
certain secretions become corrupted and
even acquire poisonous properties It is a
known fact that the bite of an animal goadcd
to desperation heals less rapidly, and is at
tended with greater inflammation than one
administered when the system is uninfluenced
by the excited passion. Great mental dis.
turbance in the mother diminisies or vitiates
the secretion of her milk, and it becomes
hurtful to the nursing child. The contrast
between the physiological effects Of the
pleasurable and painful emotions, and their
influence upon health, are obvious to oil. In
the faces Of the happy and confident is seen
tho bright glow Of natural vigor, while the
drawn, careworn and pallid features of the
sad and respondent testify to inward suffer.
ing. ....".M
In habitual irritability or fretfulness of
temper, hatred, revenge, envy and jealousy,
and, in fact, in all dispositions of the mind
characterized by bitter feelings toward
others, a measure Of anger is almost necessa.
rily blended. The effect upon the bodily
health Of the mind harassed by passions Of
this nature is to propagate arrangements and
infirmities. The appetite lessons, digestion
is impaired, and then follow other functional
disorders. The nervous system suffers from
continued metal irritability, and hysteria,
headache, and other painful affections often
owo their origin to this prejudicial influence.
Physicians we'll know that when the system
is laboring under disease q temper amiable
and tranquil under the little ills and crosses
Of life encourages recovery, while one easily
infamed by the base passions obstruct it.
While the n%1alevolent feelings with which
anger is blended are the promptings of an ill.,
conditioned mind or uncontrolled temper
aroused by external influences, they may be
excited by unhealthy states OF the organs,
and thus originate within the body. In Ger.
tain functional disturbances and diseased
conditions, tho mind sometimes become dis
turbed, and the disposition peevish and irrit-
able. Persons naturally amiable and patient
under outward %annoyances will often become
and fretfuj when attacked with
bodily infirmities. Disturbances Of the
stomach, liver or other important organs are
thus active in perverting reason, and in rem
dering the disposition suspicious, peeyish and
morose.-Boston Herald.