Show DAILY HEALTH SERVICE SERVICE- 4 I r Mental As Aspects Also S Figure 1 t in Control of Blood Pressure I I v By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia Hygeia Hygeia Hy- Hy geia the Health Magazine Since the factors factora that control blood pressure are are numerous and include not only purely physical factors but also mental aspects such as the relationship of or excitement excite excite- ment sent or em emotional states such as anger r sorrow and irritation since the part played lay d by heredity he is 11 not quite lUite certain certainly known since the thc Influence in influence In In- fluence of oC proper elimination from I the tho kidney the time of ot fluid I and of salt taken into the body and of oe alcohol and tobacco Is not certainly certainly established there Is a n wide widefield widefield field of ot research on this frontier of ot m medicine still available to tho the ex ex- It is Js believed ed that alcohol In moderation mod does doeg not Influence the tho blood pressure In some people tho tIme withdrawal withdrawal with with- of or excessive amounts of oe al alcohol al- al cobol cohol will lower the blood pressure but in others it will not apparently h have YO Its Us effect Because of tho time food qualities of alcohol It tends to lo fa faor favor fa- fa a- a or vor putting on weight and it has b been cn established b by the time insurance statistics that excess weight nH after r middle life Ute is likely to be associated with higher blood pressure I It has 1118 been established that a nervous state tends to raise the the blood pressure and It is known that excessive amounts of ot tea and amid coffee corfee may make the individual m more ra nervous nervous nervous ner ner- than ho would otherwise be These practical aspects of ot the s subJect sub sub- arc are such that every everyman man may make to some extent his own re tc- tc sma lIa search v Prom Irom time to time it Jt has hns been recognized that various dru drugs wI will lower Jower th the blood pressure pressure- This ef effect of- of feet in Ir bi ought about by action on some of or th the tho factors actors concerned In maintaining the thc blood pressure Sometimes the tho lowering is brief brier and therefore of but little use in the control of f a me long continued chronic condition c Other drugs have been beenu u used ld In irs which the time lowering of ot pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure took place over longer lonser periods of or time Then the question arises as to whether or Ot rot the increased blood pressure may mn not be a mechanism m for maintaining the tho health rather than a serious factor of ot disease Upon such problems as these re research research re- re search workers continue continuo to spend their efforts in many ROAD TO HONOR MEMORY MORY OF TENNESSEE GOVERNOR MEMPHIS Tenn Tean AP AP Con Construction of oe a 3 memorial highway In hon honor u of oe the time lato Jato Governor Austin has been started in west Tenn Tennessee Ten Ten- n essec Governor Peny originated tIme the states stales hl highway h ay system He Ho bo- bo in the you as go as method of ot road building and when ho he died in tho tIme middle of ot his hlll third term he heh h had d worked out plans for completion comple tion of ot a 3 statewide system of at highways high hIgh- ways without a n bond issue The first of ot four bridges across time the Tennessee river planned by him has s been completed at nt a cost of ot |