Show t I Secrets of H Health and an Happiness Hap I Thinking Y You ou Are Nervous Like Dreaming Youre You're Rich Richy BLike By y DR LEONARD KEENE HIRS HIRSHBERG BERG A. A B. B M M. M AM A.M. D. D Johns Hopkins University said Mid Voltaire In a cynical mood METAPHYSICS t I Is 1st this When he hc to whom one speaks does und understand and he who not f 1 speaks himself does not understand 1 this Is Voltaire's definition of j metaphysics ma may be equally eally medical applied tj to the rT knowledge of ot nervousness ner J Il was not so 50 very Ion long I ago when all of the medical 1 do dogma colleges ma that universities animal and spirits clinical flowed professors h held Jd to ft the through called allied nerves nerves s. s an and thus caused the tho white lle t ten en today loIa they are foolishly muscles to bUlge unanimous error to tn the effect that In a W worst thou rac thought ht abides In th the tho iter o nervo to white and fliers glides back and forth from central mat mat- I Dare to demand proof of this anti a 1111 t tou ou will be dubbed fool ab- ab knave risk aU all three h by or lunatic I even cven OH Ill taken scientific dO dogma lna calling your our attention to this thI m is What Is Nerve Impulse Tho The problem of what passes pases on through the nerve the nerve tho ii i ivous Impulse Is is intimately aRso associated with So lIed called n nr r- r Impulse the intimately associated question question- i uon hat what Vh Is M marn ma- ma the ture rn or nr f th thu s spark ark Of life mature ma- ma Through the nerves pass something which makes a n muscle lengthen or bulge e. e Cut the nerve and only direct Irritants nt such us as t electricity heat and cold colli and chemicals applied In close clear contact to the muscle will do what was waR remotely done via the great while white wa way of the nerve Comparatively recent is the mical knowledge that the nerve nerve- is 15 not a a. hollow tube lube but buL a 3 thick wire It was then said to act as a pipe for gases air or animal eminent spirits Other anatomists in of their toy courts knowledge and universities of or snobbery described a nerve Juice which flowed through the tub tub- ing When hen Galvani made known his great discoveries t the he nervousness of ot nerves was at once identified as electricity Slightly changed changed scientists tiste are adepts at swift veering and skillful steering this steering this Is tho the delusion held b by ph physiologists at this moment moment mo mo- ment Du Roymond Bola a genius indeed discovered by means of ot electric In Instruments instruments ln- ln used for measuring that tho the same effects were brought about In these meters by muscle and nerve activity as b by electricity Unhappily for all the physiologists of toda today they overlook the fact tact that the modi modified tied electric theor theory which they make specific for nerve issue also hold equally eQuall for many other types of tissue Ue I ha have vo yet et to hear or rend read of or one of them admitting that Its Most Interesting Speed Helmholtz a great grat physicist showed that the speed with which the life tire message mt passes through a compact frogs frog's nerve is something over feet a a. second Compared with the speed of elec clec- electricity through tho they air or a copper wire this is a snails snail's pace Both the speed of the me message saJe and Its strength as it passes ria say fr from m a pinch or pin prick In the skin up the nerve of ot sensation to tho the spinal cord conI and back to lo the tho nerve nervo of or motion and the muscles In the tho leg which kicks the pincher can be changed by drugs drug poison polson anesthetics tobacco liquor germs fever feyer disease and various I thing things Although the skin I. the muscles and other tissues are arc Inclined to lo exhibit I symptoms of or lethargy experiments show that nerves like White Wings In Ut i the tho song never ne grow WeHr weary Nerves stimulated and annoyed continuous continuous- I lv It n never show fatigue Plainly then when you are arc nervous nervous ner ner I f you ou are arc something or other far i Ii removed from what you or your our doctor doctor doctor doc doc- tor means It behooves you ou to submit submit submit sub sub- mit to a careful and detailed physical l st search ch as to what this Is If you OU think you are nervous It is much the thelme I same as dreaming that you jou OU are as I Irich rich as t Croesus i |