New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-11

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demned to slow progress the back for all time
Conjunctivitis, which is common. is due to the
effects upon the eyes of wind and dust coupled with
high speed 1t has various forms, but is external
inflammation ii is not difficult to treat and no more
serious than Conjunctivitis from any other cause.
Attacks of Mysteries common, the class of patients
most liable to them being young married women
They due relaxation after long and rapid
rum and not serious if the patient is in normal
health They pass off quickly without complications.
What is called "autO-eg," stiffness, lameness and
pain in walking, is due to sitting IN fixed position
for long period while and muscles under
strain 1t is simply due to a form OF Cranp, and
passes off in reasonable period of time, unless the
patient has passed the meridian Of life, when 1t IS
often more obdurate. Obdurate cases. however, yield
massage and lotion, except where there Is ten
dency sCiatiCa, In these cases the STRAIN OF long
ride or series of rides may bring scatica in
aggravated form. The and muscles undergo
a series of Shocks through humping, jolng and strain,
of which the patient is not conscious at the time,
but these may declare themselves a day aferward
in a painful fashion, and treatment of them gives
little alienation Time, nutrition and rest alone can
bring them the normal, and there is nothing
Into this category wry-neCk, which IS fire.
qt1ent among women, \ patient of mine
a woman came to me with her head twisted to the
right and slightly inclined 1t had fixed itself in that
position through the tense strain the muscles IN
long run at high speed. In her excitement she
was unconscious of it. but it developed rapidly after
the run was over To maintain her head in this
position was mildly painful, but to return 1t to its
natural position caused intense pain from the strained
ErIOh and hess
over the affection had made her hysterical until
cause fright in case of this kind, however it passes
off quickly under massage, though 1t Is annoying
and more or less painful while ii lasts,
When we to hysteria and nervous proStraton
the cases are serious They increasingly COM
non hysteria affecting the women and nervous
prostration the They both cumulative, yield
slowly to treatment and have injurious affect upon
the general health which is most difficult to combat
Women susceptible than men to all the
troubles brought bv fast riding for several reasons
In the first place, most women who ride III autolno-
hiles have OVerStrained nerves from the tax lad
upon them by social and family duties. Housekeeping
and the orsand and things required OF fashion
able woman of to-day. Besides, nature did not
intend them for this kind of life and consequently
did not provide them well their brothers and
husbands against wind and rain, fit them so well
for the outdoor strenuous life. They not used
to protecting themselves against hard knocks and
hairlpreadth ESCAPES. which exhaust rather than
stimulate Their reactions have not bee1l
trained in the special ways required for last auto
riding and their more tnid natures require an IN
creased effort for selfcontrol tr1n9 nervous feat