Show DISEASES OF overworked MEN time was when the very phrase diseases of overworked men would have been consider ed foolish arid and out of the question now it conveys truth of national importance which the nation must consider from being a compain comparatively actively idle world we have of late become an insane world on oil the subject of labor so long as the muscles merely were employed so long little haim was done we remained men now we aspire to be gods and we pay the forfeit of our ambition from overwork wo now get a class of diseases tile the most prolonged tile the most fatal tile the suns of our best men go down at noon and so accustomed are aie we to the phenomenon that we cease to regard 0 it as either strange or out of place it is through the alie mind now that the b ody budy is desti destroyed oyed by avei at all events it is so mainly tile the men of intense thought men of letters men of business who think arid and speculate men of the state who are ambitious to lule these men ale aie sacrifices with them tile the brain lias has not merely to act on oil its own muscles bidding them to perform pel form their necessary duties but the one brain bhain must needs guide a hundred bundled other brains and all the muscles thereto appended an electric battory battery works a single wire fl om tile city to beighton and does its work well arid and goes on oil for several months before it is dead or worn woin out carl can it do the woi k of a bundi bundled ed oil oh yes it can call but it must have more acid must wear faster and will ultimately die sooner wo we may protect the plates make the battery to an all extent self as the bod body y is but in the main the waste is in excess of the supply and the wear is as certain as the day men of letters men of business who do their business through other hands and who do great business and men im in politics suffer much tile the same kind of effects from overwork they induce in themselves usually when they suffer from this cause one or other of the following maladies cardiac melancholy or blaken heart dyspepsia accompanied with great loss ot of phosphorus uis biorn the body diabetes consumption paralysis local and general genei al apoplexy insanity premature old age they also suffer more than other men from the effects of ordinary disorders diso idera iders they bear pain indifferently can tolerate no lowering crin 0 measures are left long prostrated by simple depressing maladies arid and acquire in in some instances a morbid sensibility which is reflected in evely direction so that briskness of action becomes irritability and quiet seclusion and moroseness they dislike themselves and feel that they must be disliked and if they attempt to be joyous they lapse into shame at having dissembled and fall gain again into gloom social science review Ite view |