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Show Traveling And Nerves. - It is proved conclusively that railway traveling is very injurious to the nervous system. The heart at first becomes excited and beats more rapidly than it otherwise would, a condition which soon leads to a little confusion in the brain, and sometimes a sensation of fullness and giddiness, with singing sounds and noises in the ear, apart and distinct from those which are produced in the station itself. In very nervous persons these unpleasant signs are followed by a slight feeling of nausea, but, as a rule, all the signs pass away when the seat in the carriage is secured and the train starts on its way. In feeble persons, and especially in those suffering from feebleness of the heart, the effects of the temporary disturbance are not so slight. In these persons the overreaction to which the heart has been subjected leads to weariness and failure of that central organ, and therewith to a feeling of fatigue and weariness which extends through the entire body, and which is commonly attributed for some hours after the journey is over, to the fatiguing influence of mere traveling by rail. |