The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-13
.SIIGINKAGE FROM
EVERY OUTBURST
All Muscles are In a State
of Contraction Says
Dr.. FIeury

From the London Evening News.
Maurice de- Fleury, a distinguished
E'renchman, has irst written short
scientific treatise in which he advan-
ces the interesting theory that every
time we become angry our vitality
shrlnks SO much in proportion to
every outburst After even the most
artinlly suppressed signs of bad tenn
per our vitality becomes smaller aud
smaller until finally nothing IS left.
The moral of this French Doctors
treatise, Of course, Is that We should
never allow ourselves TO become ang-
~ If VIC value our health and life.
Anger is a certain kind OF cerebral
excitement. explains Or. Flcury The
hypersthenic subject is always on its
verge, while the neurasthenic be-
comes infuriated only b. a sudden
bound OF reaction excited from with
out. But at the moment when they
are let loose the two are alike, save
that The strong man is a binder brute,
while the weak man is somewhat of
an actor and seems to aim at effect.
Prof. Ianga of the University Of
Copenhagen has described these
symptoms with precision in an inn
portant little book which has been the
starting point and confirmation of al
most all recent researches.
He holds that all the emotions are
due to disorders of the circulation of
he blood and anger IN particular TO
a very intense dilatlon of the small
arteries of the brain"
He describes rednass and swelling
OF the face as a constant sign of
anger, forgetting the white rage
which rs so frequent and impressive.
but he has brought into strong re-
lief this capital fac, that anger is a
STAT of general Experimentation
The whole organism. the muscles
and the glands-for anger has its
tears, sweats and foaming at the
mouth manifestly set in action by a
superahundance of nervous influx, be-
gin to work excess, act for the sake
OF ac ing ia disorder, without aim,
without utility, solely to relieve their
oVertension.
During fits Of anger saws Or.
Fleury, 81 think Il may be said that
all the muscles of the organism are
IN state of extreme contraction.
we already know hat the hand OF
an bapatlent man. IN q state Of men
| tai ,rritatiOn presses the dynamo
meter With unwonted energy; in fact,
our whole being is adected, but even
the muscles OF our vegetatiye life,
those of our stomach or hose Of our
arteries share our eneryation and are
contracted.
The muscular fibers surrounding
the arteries in which the blood circu-
lates. and which form continuous
sheath for them, are frightened in pro
portion to our anger. The caliber Of
the arterial lube diminishes. and then
the blood being under a very high
pressure the watery part is driven
back into the surrounding tissues, and
lhe rcd globules diluted ~ less
quantity Of liquid, appear Var more
numerous in the field OF the micro
scope
This concentration of blood and
rise In arterial pressure | consider &c
be almost always present in case o
anger have found them whenever
] have been abla 10 examine a pail
enL
Let us form clear idea OF al
that there IS In a iit of angcr vair
expenditure Of enort, aimless move
mcnts. ouergy spent in biting the fists
stamping ON the ground, hckinl