Show THE BRAIN AND THE HEART if properly used they largely escape senile failure in his work on the senile heart dr balfour tells us that there are two parts of alio human organism which if wisely used largely escape senile failure says the troy times these two arc the brain and the heart persons who tl have often wondered why brain workers great statesmen and others should continue to work almost unimpaired mental activity and energy up to a period when most of the organs and functions of alie body are in a condition of advanced senile decay there is a physiological reason for this and dr balfour tells us what it is the normal brain he affirms remains vigorous to the last and that because its nutrition is specially provided for about middle life or a little later the general arteries of the body begin to lose their elasticity and to slowly but surely dilate they become therefore much less efficient carriers areas but this is not the case with the internal cortiss cort ids which supply the capillary ot the nutrient blood to the capillary areas of the brain on the contrary those large vessels continue to retain their pristine elasticity so that the blood pressure remains normally higher than within the capillary area of any organ in the body the cerebral blood paths being thus kept open the brain tissue is kept better nourished than the other tissues of the body who is there among those who have reached or passed middle age that will not be rejoiced to find such admirable physiological warrant for the belief that the brain may continue to work and even to improve almost to the very last hour of life |