The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-16
(New York Times.

just now some authoritaNc writer's
are calling attention to the brain.
which, they say, needs quite as much
personal attention as the body. They
marvel that all people, including con-
temporarics of their own. forget. If
they eve knew, that the brain de-
mands n~ourishment. rest and exercise
more SO than the body. Again, they
find that many people who feel tired
are only suffering from brain fag. and
instead of taking bodily rest. which
they are apt to- do, they ought to take
physical exercise to restore their nor
NAL condition sc that the brain may
rest.
Further, these modern philosophers
inform their readers that only
intellectual workers tire their brains,
but all kinds OF people who eat and
drink improperly II give no atten-
ton to the simple laws of health.
All men. they find, fix their capacity
for work by the way they feel, though
they may not always apply themselves
when they feel best. n though they
they feel worst.
Now. they think it quite strange that
no n considers the mechanism OF
the brain in relation to intellectual
work. and they think it strange still
that mental workers are only con-
ccrned at bodily symptoms of impov-
erishment n never give n thought
to the neglect of the brain or the need
OF resting this ryan. which W
rests while its possessor is conscious,
n which is frequently not permitted
to rest. they say, when its possessor
is unconscious. because of the neglect
n overtaxing of 1t.
Some of h thinkers affirm the
body is not of much consequence and
that the brain as n physical entity
directs all there is that is substantial,
lShed and nurtured If it is to do its
work. DIR. S. Weir Mitchell wrote a
treatise closely related to this subject,
in which he saws:
The man who sleeps with the stars
visible above him. who wins bodily
substance first and from the earth
and water, who deties the rain and
sun. may drink IL he likes and smoke
without injury. When a man uses
his muscles. after a time he comes to
a feeling called fatigue. He is warned
by this To take a rest, but in the brain
which he is intensely using he does
not feel any sensation referable to the
organ itself. Tt is apt. like a we'll bred
creature. to get into an exalted state
under stimulus Of need. so it's owner
feels amazed at the ease Of its pro.
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fulness and power that accompanies
them. 1t is only after long misuse
that the brain cries out. Il have done
enough"
1t appears that body and brain have
reversed systems of alarm. This body
serves notice, when it is tired. that /!
has done all it a n any moro p":
upon it means a break. When the
brain is overloaded. or driven too long,
it does double work aud Will no. lie
at case when let alone. II seems
stronger han Yer. clearer and more
active, after excessive hours of labor
during which the stage Of fatigue has
been passed. This is its method 81
sounding the alarm, an1 II may ne
gathered from what the comments
tors say in their recent discussions that
it is the signal before the disaster
When the brain gets real tired it is not
to be rested. like tho body. with an
hour or a day OF sleep.
Some ioctors.' saws Alfred scho-
field. chris that a, man is pretty
much as an engine, or rather. perhaps,
a motor car. II resembles the latter
in being subject to i~ncorvenient break
downs.
1T is clear to them thai tho use nf
adequate new nut or bolt or
strap-could effect the repair or re-
store the machine to health"
DIR. Schotield is skent.cal about .he
efficacy of medicine mr. the ability of
the physician in his professional ca
pacjtv tn rure the sick. though he ex-
presses confidence in his personal aid
to his patients which comes through
tho employment of mind over mind
in other words. the unconscious do
minion Of the brain; and it il the
brain, he thinks. that cures disea &c
and keeps the body strong. He be.
lieves it is the subconscious power of
the brain that accounts for all the
cures attributed to uuack remedies.
mystical healers and religious cults,
He has written a book called The