News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-09-30

NEU Observation-Disclosures FAC)-
ITS CAUSE AND CORRECTION
PART ONE.

10 SAUSE AND CORRECTION
PART ONE.
OF all the ills with which humanity
is afflicted, undoubtedly the most prev
alent, certainly that one most effectu
ally destroying the happiness and the
general efficiency of the American PEG.
| pie, is what has come of be universal.
ly known as "The Great American Dis
ease," popularity called brain-fag or
nervous prostration, and more spe-
officially known as neurasthenia.
Neurasthenia is a condition induced
by severe shock or serious illness; or
by the cumulative effects of slight but
long continued and persistent irrita~
ton of one particular set of nerves
or as the result of a general physical
and moral softening from the lack OF
normal body functioning. All these
several causes may bring about CEN
trail nerve cell exhaustion identical in
results. Just as too frequent or too
long holding of the finger on the push
button will quickly run down and ex-
haust the primary battery cells of an
electric call bell circuit, so the too
frequent or too long continued work
ing of our nerve cells will produce ex-
haustion
With reasonable care and use pri-
mary battery cells have a long life, be-
cause they recuperate between do.
charges; but if the signals follow too
closely or they are operated too con-
tinuously the battery plates lose this
recuperative power and tend to polar
ize, and even disintegrate; and with
the same treatment the very same
thing happens to our nerve cells for
the same reason. Nerve cells may be
worked beyond the point of possible
recuperation; hence, to maintain nor
NAL physical, mental and moral
health our cells must be given nor
NAL physiological use with time to
recuperate between discharges.
The symptoms of the disease of
neurasthenia are multitudinous, and to
attempt to enumerate them would take
us far beyond the scope of this short
article. Suffice it to say that begin
Mig with simple CD nervous indiges-
sIN1, insomnia, and an occasional touch
Of "the blues the symptoms range
through disturbances involving all the
special senses and most of the alb
dominal organs in almost endless COM
bination and degrees of severity.
functional diseases" abound, a new
one usually breaking out about as rap
idly as the old one is controlled, SO
that the victim endures practically a
continuous round of i'll health. Pos
sibly the one general UNIVERSAL symp-
tom is "a tired feeling" The sufferer
wakes in the morning tired and is apt
to remain tired all day until evening,
when the average neurasthenic wakes
up and wants to start something.
Besides that tired feeling" so char
acteristics in the neurasthenic the chief |
symptom is worry. A neurasthenic is |
busy most of the time worrying about !
either worrying about |
what has happened, what is now hap |
pening, or what is likely to happen |
some day. 1t is a proved and accepted !
truth that the adult is |
SIdNCly ny willy Iholl
by fatigue, the effect of worry on the |
brain cells being exactly the same as |
that resulting from hard physical Ia
Dor.
But hard physical labor acsomplishes
presumably worth while,
and there is a certain tonic and rest
full effect in contemplating the product
Of labor; but worry produces nothing,
can never reach conclusion because it
is absolutely illogical in origin and in
application, and can only serve to de-
stroy the most valuable thing man pos
sesses, the very foundation of all
the creative concept.
To think is to exercise the faculties
of judgment; to worry is to harass
with care and anxiety. No two things
can occupy the same space at the
same time, and no man can think or
10 two things at the same time. There
ore we cannot think when we worry,
md conversely we cannot worry when
We think: either one absolutely de- |
,troys the other. Hence Inconsistencies
ire only worrying when they think !
Iu6y are lAdb bASy dAC
drift on a mental sea without com. {
PASS, chart or rudder is what dis
resses and makes them weary, for,
when they can think clearly and |
definitely to a conclusion and then 1
ollow it, they are no longer neuras- {
henics.
All that we possess that the animals
10 not we have developed out of the 4
material wealth of the earth by the '
ower of our thoughts, and without 0
bought this world would still be a Il
and we remain nothing but I
nimals. Without thought man is
7eak, helpless and hopeless creature; \
ut by using thought he has seized :
dominion over all the earth, except 7
Iimself. and now boldly reaches out :,