The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-16
NEW HAVEN MORNING COURIER 1885,


 a later date he calls himself young 1 though the contemporaries are old The hardest thing that he is compelled to realize is that changes occur in himself; that thing which he has 1 heretofore done with impunity may in time become hazardous in repetition. The morning cold plunge, the going without an overcoat, the refusal of ex- tra foot-wear-any or all may become hazards to health. It is often quite difficult to persuade an aged person or ! his friends that exercise in the open air is not absolutely essential to we'll being, or that the flreside is more in- Vigorating than the cutting wind of brilliant winter day. They quote ex- perience against you. Having always done thing with advantage, they can do it still, unmindful that the person. al equation has changed, and that an element once a friend to buffet may become a foe that kills, Of the ele- ments the one most harmful to the aged is cold
 Here is something that the fresh air fiends will do well to read and ponder: | young, a mild heat for the sleeping room is better than the haphazard temperature given by an open win dow. That he has always slept with the window open, no matter what the weather, is boasted by a man who de- mands an overcoat and a fur cap in waking hours, without seeing his in consistency. There is a great deal of nonsense talked about the need of fresh (meaning open) air in the sleep ing-room. You can constantly cher ish a catarrh with It. Nansen, in his sleeping bag, has proved that one can survive and thrive with modicum of it.
 Dr. Walker says that the chief haz- ards of the man who has reached the time when he should be his own phy- sician are internal rather than exter- nal
 The gwilling worker has always enough to do for others. Each year adds to responsibilities which he as- cessities, or by choice through ambi- tion. And each year gives him a body a little less in strength by which to CdEly lIelll. IAt Cudu6S Ildy De slight, but 1t is actual. The conse- quence is that with increased work and weakened body. aid which Is harmful is often sought. There are two things which threaten such a mans comfort; half or wholly recog nized diminished physical strength to do increasing work, and the inability to get abundant sleep or enough sleep for full refreshment.
 But the gist of the sermon is found in this paragraph, which ought to be read with close attention:
 I think that the greatest hazards to a mans character are likely to be- come after he has passed forty-five years of age. He has become more lenient in his judgment of others, and is likely to be more indulgent to him self To speak of things wholly phys ical, he has then the temptation to both stimulants and narcotics Cor hyp- notics) in the highest degree. And those temptations come to him when he is acting, chiefly, as his own physi- elan. If young fellow becomes a drunkard before he is thirty, and goes to the devel prematurely you can usu- ally find for him the plea of heredity. But there is many man who has passed thirty years and forty safely, who in the next decade succumbs to alcohol because he needs a brace to help him transact the business which the close work of previous years has brought to him. He takes to alcohol, not in the convivial way, but to help him over hard place; and he takes it in just the worst manner, without ac- companying food, and when food would likely be distasteful or even harmful, by nervous pre-occupation. The afternoon drink to tide him over a weary day joins to itself earlier po- tions when business presses, and the morning cocktail before it has begun. And all this is due to the oyerwork given to the man whose established character has brought him to the front If a man passes in safety the time when strength declines without his realizing the fact, and reaches the time when he must acknowledge it, he is all right.
 If it be not alcohol alone that is used, it is alcohol with subtle stimu- lant more deadly, a coca or kola, which obscures the immediate effect of the medium.
 The other hazard is the use of hyp- notics. Of course these are of various degrees of potency and harmlessness. But you will find that the man who consults you for insomnia knows the list and has tried them all before he has applied to you.
 In view of such conditions the doc tor thinks that often the counsel giv- en by the physician must be rather that which the priest is supposed to give.
 The paper was freely discussed and in modification of what he had said Dr. Walker added that man of for ty or over was very apt to be better for the use of stimulants taken with his meals, but it was the drinking be- tween meals that did the harm Hartford Courant
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