Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-10-24
Books, Bookish
People and Things
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.


DR.. b. Schedule. whose. writings on
diseases of warm countries have won
such a deservedly high place, says of
the effects of a tropical climate on the
nervous system:
The unfavorable effects of tropical
climates on the nervous system are
still further increased If contributed to
by other predisposing causes, such as
heredity, excuses, etc.
"Rudimentary or fully developed
mental arrangements may then ensue.
Mental diseases therefore-are more
frequent In Europeans in the tropics
than in temperate climates.
This influence Is principally mani.
tested in sleeplessness and irritability.
Such patients exhibit boundless excite.
ment, to which they formerly were not
subject so that they are carried away
TO perform acts of violence and other
unprecedented deeds; such explosions
as rule are followed by exhaustion"
In many cases II would be better VI
they were followed by death. No doubt
charity should be exercised towards
those really suffering from an excess
of nervous irritability due to climate,
and the best thing for them to do
would be to get out of the climate that
is making them so disagreeable
Another writer on tropical diseases
calls this form of explosion so common
among certain residents in tropical
countries frantic Mania" He says
| that these patients cannot be crossed:
10 be beaten in a game or an argu.
ment drives them wild: any small mat.
tnn NHh t.h hAN III -
| whether 1t be so or mott to themselves
or families may, especially If it be
mixed with little whiskey, make dem.
ons of them.
My opinion is that the disease" Is
merely enlarged eussedness.
Mense says very truly of this "tro.
pical frenzy" which assaults respecta
BILE men, accuses good characters,
throws mud, sets fire to annoying ser
wants and kills provoking laborers at
the slightest provocation:
THE alleged disorder has been ex.
pressly fabricated by laymen according
TO whether the affected persons are
governed by pleasure or hatred. There
are, relatively, a great many eccentric
characters among Europeans living in
the far distant colonies. for the quiet
ordinary man prefers to remain in his
comfortable native land. The oppor.
! tunity is afforded in isolated and dis.
| tant lands for the weak characters TO
lose their equilibrium: in Europe they
are under the stern eye of the law. and
of society, and custom Compels limita.
tons to ones conduct. The same type
OF persons who suffer from the So
! called tropical frenzy in the colonies
are inclined to excuses everywhere,
even al the North Pole, as soon as the
straight jacket of civilization is re.
moved"
Good for Mense, for he tell nothing
but the truth.
When it Is not bad whisley that ails
the man 1t is bad temper, bad blood
or all combined with too much au.
thority.
Large authority or arbitrary power
Is dangerous thing even for a man
OF large mental calibre and enough
character, but to give man of small
intellectual development and unstable
character such power is to make him
a menace to the community.
The smaller the man the less IL takes
to make him strut. It may be only
three servants to lord 1t over. As he
looks back to the time when he was
serving himself his figure reflects itself
large on the horizon. Or, may be, he
rules a hundred or a thousand and,
accordingly, his Objectionable domin.
ance grows.
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