Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-01-20
HEALTH HINTS.
What Anger Costs.

What Anger Costs.
Do you know what it costs you
to become angry? Every time a
man gets angry he sbortens his life
so many minutes or days, perhaps
even years. A great deal depends
on the intensity of his anger. Ev-
cry time we become angry our vi
tality shrinks so much in proportion
for every outburst.- After even the
most arsfully suppressed signs of
bad temper our vitality becomes
smaller and smaller, until finally
nothing is left. The moral deduced
from the advancement of this latest
theory in medicine is, of course,
tha, we should never allow our
selves to become angry if we value
our health and life.
Angeris a certain kind of cerebral
(brain) excitement. The hyper
stenic (very strong) subject is al
ways on it's verge, while the neu-
rasthenic (nervously debilita,ed) be-
comes infuriated only by sudden
bound of reaction excited from
without. But at the moment when
they are let loose the two are alike,
save that the strong man is ablinder
brute; while tie weak man is some
| what of an actor, and seems:to aim
lat, effect.
All emotions are due to disorders
lpf The circulation of the blood, and
$ngss, in particular, to an intense
aaaSion of the small arteries of the
brain. Redness and swellingof the
face are constant signs of anger, and
anger il a state of augmentation.
Tie muscular ibers surrounding
the arteries il which the blood CIR
culates, and which form , continu
oas sheath for them, are frightened
in proportion to our angeEs The
caliber of the arterial tube ;dimin.
ished and then. the blood being un-
der athigh pressure, the watery part
lis driven back into the surrounding
tissues and the red globules, diluted
in a less quantity of liquid, appear
far more numerous in the field of
the microscope. The concentration
Of the blood and rise iii arterial
pressure | consider to be almost al
ways present in case of anger. |
have found them whenever | have
been able TO examine patient.
Let us form clear idea of all
that there is in a fit Of anger-vain
expenditure of effort, aimless move
MEETS, energy spent in biting the
fists, stamping on the ground, kick
ing against doors, or tearing up
book. All this clearly indicates a
mental condition of no high order.
At every stage we recognize more
early that the problem of anger is
problem If cerebral mechanics.
In a condition Of nervous excite.
ment all our energies are at high
Ditch. The heart sends to every
part of the body concentrated blood,
extraordinary rich in globules, which
u,ilizes itself instsnlaneously in the
tissues; our organic combustion,
takes place with almost doubled in
tensity, our sensibility is consdera-
bly, excited. We are too much
alive.
Variations of temper are varia-
,ions of energy, Of muscular tonics.
One is sad or timid because one is
too weak; angry because one is too
strong. Oscillations of the mind
are caused by the excitement pro-
duced by the contact of our nerves
of sensibility. There is short cir
Cult in our nerves, followed By a
rud"y increased muscular energy,
the hearts power of contraction,
the Glood pressure in the arteries
and .e activity Of nutrition.
Now, the immense work perform
ed by the brain during the anger
crisis il go much work lost, worse
than lost. harmful; apart from the
evil it may do to lis object, who
may be killed by it, it is harmful to
the person who gels into the rage,
We are degraded ty anger; not only
does it humiliate US in the eyes ot
others, but il leaves us detected and
exhausted.-Prof. John Lange.
Card of Thanks.