The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-07-13
OUR STRENUOUS LIFE.
DR.. Oliver T. Osborne Points
Out It's Harmful Elements.
DRUGS AND AUTOS A MENACE.

Inerensins Reckless Use OF Coal Tar
Products 10 Relieve Pain the Cause
For Many BreaIsdovyns, says New
Haven Physician--s'yaso Motor Com
traction Cheek" newest Danger.
German Scientist says We're All
Right.
Or. Oliver I. osborne's paper on
''The Strenuous Life which was read
before the American Therapeutic So
eiety at Washington recently, led to
the conclusion that Americans live at
too fast a pace, says the New York
World. This was admitted BY nearly
all the doctors present at the American
Medical congress, but nobody had a
remedy to suggest.
DR. Osborne said the strenuousness
Of the life Of the average American
business man has tendency to in
crease cardiac and arterial weak
nesses, and that another cause for the
many breakdowns is the constantly in
creasing and reckless use Of coal tar
products for the relief Of pain.
Eve hardly realize this daily tension
and the effects on our hearts Unless we
analyze it, said DR.. Osborne, who
comes from New Haven. eve rise on
time in the morning, whether by an
alarm clock or the call of a servant
or By habit, eat breakfast and read the
papers on time, a clock in every room
and a watch frequently In our hand.
We then, on time, meet Office and out
side engagements, college appoint
ments, consultations, always and con
stantly carefully predicting the amount
OF time that viii be required and tim
ing our next engagement by this de-
cision.
During the day we rush up long
flights of stairs or take elevators that
so up with rush and stop with a
plunge If we drive, either horse or
automobile, our hearts stop, jump and
receive the vase motor contraction
check when, by the carelessness Of
pedestrians or bicyclists, we are sud
denly anxious lest we do them an In
jury. If we are in a car or vehicle
managed by some one else we often re-
ceive the same real or needless shocks
to our nervous systems and hearts. If
we are ailing we slight natures signal
to relax and still keep up the pace. If
we are actually sick, unless we are
seriously i'll, we fight and wrestle with
the disease, whatever it may be, In
stead Of calmly giving mp and allowing
the disease to be temporary master OF
ceremonies.
This describes the life Of most OF
the men and women Of our rapid age
and country Even the school chill
dren and, might say, the young chill
dren see too much. do too much, are
amused too much. receive too much,
compete In school too much. are taught
too much, are awake too much for the
welfare of their nervous systems"
These are DR. Osborne's ideas. Near
II all the noted doctors at the congress
coincide. One who doesn't is Profess
or Hanskehr Of Vienna.
tut tutH said Professor Hanskehr.
Il don't think this strenuous life of
you Americans is killing any one.
confess I like the American way. The
hurry, the hustle, as you call it, does
not, in my opinion, kill men. They
are put here to work hard If you
Americans work harder than other
people, then you are fulfilling to a
larger degree the purpose of your be-
Ing here. That is my idea of a siren
uous life"
Il agree with Or. osborne" said DR.
Matthew D. Mann of Buffalo, one of
the surgeons who attended President
Mckinley after he was shot, Il did
not hear the paper read. but the idea
that the Americans drive themselves
too fast is correct one. After the
heart has been worn BIZ the strain Civ
EN- it BY the life Of the American Of
great affairs it is useless TO expect
drugs TO restore it.
"The constant nervous shocks to
which Americans subject themselves
have the same effect as fast driving
on high strung horse. ANY owner
or driver will tell you it is not the
distance the horse Is driven, but the
speed at which he goes that does the
injury.
Americans could work longer hours
without harming themselves half as
much as they do by their comparative
" short hours, which they spend in
terrific effort to accomplish every
thing their brains have been able to
think OF"
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