Show Mental Overwork The English Anthropological society has been culling from reports of schoolmasters observations on the symptoms of mental fatigue fa-tigue Tho observations reveal that weariness weari-ness of mind reveals itself under tho aspects of irritability and incapacity Children at school showed such signs of mental irritability irritabil-ity as sleeplessness and nervous laughter while those who were fatigued could neither sleep nor get up their task work The flagging flag-ging will showed itself by lolling yawning and a languid manner Headache also resulted re-sulted from overstrain in study when combined com-bined with defective ventilation Tho London Lon-don Lancet commenting on these observations observa-tions says that mental and bodily overwork is tho most general and tho least regarded form of illness in this age Its treatment requires re-quires that duo attention be paid to the two great essentials of timely rest and wholesome diet A man says tho Lancet may work on a liberal scale provided ho will interrupt its continuity by timely and adequato intervals of rest and will eat heartily of plain food So long as appetite and sleep aro unimpaired there is lillo danger of overwork but the failure of either is naturos warning signal that the strain must bo relieved |