Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-04-04
Health Expert Discusses
Shattered Nerves Thursday

The Chautauqua Health Lectures of |
the Y. NJ. C. A. course by j. c. Elliott !
are growing in interest, his lecture this
afternoon on Foods and Nutrition
was very valuable one. The lecturer
is bombarded with questions at the.
close of the lectures This course of lee.
lures under the Y. NJ. C. A. is valu-
able asset to any community. The sub
ieet of the lecture for Thursday at $3.50
will be Shattered Nerves and Their
Restoration Admission is free.
Shattered Nerves,
Mr. Elliott said in speaking OH this
subject, "We have ten million nerves in
the body. The strenuous life of the age
skaters them all. The two great nerve
centers of the body are the brain and
spinal column, and the solar plexus or
abdominal brain. Scientists say there
are more than two thousand million
nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
Our strenuous life exhausts them all.
We shatter the nerves of the child be-
fore graduation from the grammar
school. High school pupils fall by the
thousands from nervous disorders before
t1HdtltEeu HtINeS IUTCt IuOu-
sands of students from our colleges be-
fore commencement. Business and pro-
fessional men and women fall from the
same cause Eefore they reach their
prime. Mothers in the home are not
exempt, but go down under nervous
prostration and mental debility.
Eye Strain.
"Eye strain in the student is one of
the chief causes of shattered nerves.
Neglect OF the eye of the child is one of
the crimes of the age. Scientists tell us
there are million strans in one of the
optic nerves, and that it requires one
third of the nervous force and energy
of the body to run the optic nerve. De-
fective vision is one of the chief causes
of shattered nerves in the pupil and stu
dent. Thousands of the pupils i'll our
schools and colleges are going down
under shattered nerves, because of eye
strain. Examination of the eyes of the
student by an expert optician is imper
ative for health and preservation of the
nerve force and energy of the student.
In the near future the state will pro-
vide an expert optieian for our schools
and will furnish glasses where the pa
rent Is uudDtt 10 ulGtp tltS expense.
Shattered Nerves in Adults.
Millions i'll our nation are becoming
physical and mental and nervous wrecks
because of shattered nerves. Profes-
sional and business men and women are
falling under nervous pfostration by the
thousands because of shattered nerves.
Society women and mothers in the home
are falling under the same assaults.
Shattered nerves occur in people who
seem well and cheerful We find them
in persons nervously i'll and wretched.
We find them in persons mentally i'll
and wretehed, persons obsessed with
gloom, dependency, and despair This
is the form of shattered nerves that
leads to insanity. Our insane asylums
are crowded to the doors with patients
who have had reason dethroned by shat
tered nerves and poisoned brain cells.
Cause of Shattered Nerves.
Worry is one of the chief causes of
shattered nerves The brain can endure
an endless amount of intellectual work,
but worry soon burns out the brain cells
and the nerve cells as well. Auto-in-
toxieation, or self poisoning from de-
eaying surplus food poisons the nerve
cells and destroys them. The siren
nous life of the age burns out the nerve
cells. High pressure life burns out
nerve cells. Poisonous foods destroy
our nerve force and energy Vinegar,
pepper salt, spices, aud all highly sea-
soned foods. Tea, coffee, smoking, to-
baceo, all alcoholic liquors, morphine,
and cocaine burn out the nerve centers.
All these problems will be discussed.
Admission free.