The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-26

might be maintained for eight
hours, but that rest periods made
for economy and that moderate
work-which is what most factory
laborers perform - makes little
drain on reserve muscular energy,
oxygen consumption, heart rate
and blood pressure.
Today we wish TO inquire into
the things that impair the human
machine in attaining maximum
efficiency and how they can be
overcome. Naturally this will con-
Germ mostly the subject of moder-
ate muscular work. We have al
ready said that maximum work
cannot be possibly performed with
out long rest periods and there is
more efficiency in heavy work with
short rest periods interspersed.
The situation can be illustrated
by the example of factory workers
who work standing at benches and
using small groups of muscles of
the hands and arms. It must also
be remembered that they use the
muscles of the eyes. These people
do not become fatigued on account
of an excessive strain put upon
the whole muscular system nor on
account Of strain on the heart and
blood pressure. Very slight ad-
justments in physiological proc
esses are required.
They become fatigued because
Of the strain of standing, which
alone is fatiguing, and also be-
cause of the constitution of the
nervous system which becomes
tired from making repetitious
movements and strain from the
eyes. In other words, if a machine
could do this work, it would never
have to stop until the parts actu-
ally wore out or unless it became
overheated. But since the human
body has a nervous system at
tached to its machinery, fatigue
and reduced efficiency in produc-
tivitv inevitably take place.
setting everybody at ioggerneads
and upsetting everybody's plans on
account of her whims. Then some
member of the family actually gets
dangerously i'll and she finds her
self in the corner with nobody to
listen to her symptoms, and be-
gins to realize that she really has
place of secondary Importance
which she has created by her own
course of life. Everyone has
known of instances like this where
somebody else's sickness cured a
neurottc permanently.
Change Since Last War
There is a curious change Of dis
tribution of nervous symptoms be-
tween this war and the last war as
noted in England. In the last war
soldiers suffered from shell shock
which was simply form of hys-
terra induced by their experiences
in being under she'll fire. These
soldiers found that when they
were reduced to a state of useless
ness, they were sent back to Eng
land and put in a nice, safe hos
pital. But in this war, behind the
lines in the civilian population it
is as dangerous or even more dan
gerous than on the front lines, so
the soldier learns to control his
shell shock.
However, as time and circum-
stances permit, the tried and test
ed methods Of psychological treat
ment are those which can be used
in the case Of war nerves-first,
suggestion; second, persuasion or
moralization; third, rest and iso-
lation; fourth, personality analy-
sis, and fifth, re-education and
guidance.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
J. c. S.: Is there any harm in
taking an overdose Of vitamins?
Answer: Toxic symptoms have
been reported from the excessive
use Of vitamin d and thiamine
chloride (vitamin b.
P. ": Can a tumor of the brain