The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-18
HOW WE TAKE GOLD.
Fatigue and Anxiety, Says Doctor, Have
Much to Do with It.

Zone of my patients could not under
stand why he took such severe cold, -
said doctor, who is especially familiar
with throats and lungs, in talk with a
Washington Star writer.
ssHe said he had ample warm clothing,
macintosh, umbrella and rubbers. and
that his exposure didn't compare with
many he had undergone, and from which
he suffered no i'll.
"When 1 questioned him, he remem-
bered that he was very much fatigued the
last time. That was the secret OF It. 1t
requires very little exposure for one to
take cold when he is weary or anxious or
depressed. The condition of the nervous
system has more to do with it than the
condition of the atmosphere.
The explanation is very simple. The
power to resist disease of this kind de-
ponds on the tempe allure OF the body.
You can sometimes stop bad cold short
by hot drinks, and getting your back
warm. The temperature of the body is
maintained by the nervous system, and
the least trouble with the nerve centres
lowers the temperature and invites cold.
It is an interesting fact that the bodily
temperature is wholly independent of out
side conditions. It Is little more than
9S degrees at the equator and at the North
Pole, if Prof Andree happens to be there.
This is because the nervous system regu'
lates it. But for its watchfpl care, the
rico with
every muscular movement and woulo
rise or fall with the outside temperature.
When anything is wrong with the nervous
system, it does not perform It's WORK al
it should, just as clock can not keeE
good time when anything is wrong with
it's insides. No amount OF warm clothing
will entirely compensate for the disturb
ance of the nerve centres by work carried
so far as to bring WEAKNESS, or by anx,
iety, fright, and SO on. When man Is
depressed iii spirit or fatigued, he should
be most careful about exposing hlmselt u
bad weather.
"It is this nervous origin of colds thai
accounts for the shocking suddennesi
with which robust men, in apparent gooc
health. are attacked and carried Oh by
III w.
could know the truth, we should nnd an
unfavorable state of mind. The nervous
pushing Amer leans are more often the
victims Of pneumonia than any Other
people. not b. cause our climate is so much
worse, hut because we ere less serene ano
less moderate III our Work.
"At this season exposure to WIND and
dampness causessaR acute catarrh in mos
cases, or a bronchitis; but it may easily
result in pneumonia. The best proven
| tive is a cheerful mind, and that can be
cultivated. 1t is. largely within a mans
own power to be cheerful or glum. A
discrimination TO shed anxiety, to- look OF
the pleasant side of everything, will
| sometimes save o mans life. and very OF
| ten enable him TO escape bad cold. w
| may pay big price for the doubtful
pleasure of being irritable and anxious.
| 'sThe French doctors have discovered
| that many diseases may be successfully
treated by music. The idea is as old al
| Plato How right Emerson was when BIT
said that amazing philosopher had clappet
copyright on everything in the world oil
ideas In the Charmides Of Plato there
is remarkable account of the theory Of
| such u treatment, attributed by Socrates
to Tamo!xis, the Thracian cooking.
''It is now some years since Matthew
Arnold found fault with the medical pro
fession, and justly, for its ignorance Of
the relations of moral fault and disease
We are only at the beginning Of mora,
| therapeutics =