| Show Co Copyright 1911 by American B Great Britain n RI Rights Reserved I t Wh yr rv body 0 i lj WHY Babies Have Brain rain Storms Y I WHY Laborers Get a Nervous Prostration WHY a Nervous Nation Must Fall r f.- f. WHY a Wife's Nagging Breaks You A t r WHY Golf May a Ruin Your our Brain rain I WHY Tight Collars oars Drive rive You Crazy R R. EDWIN ASH a a. dl distinguished London nerve specialist t has a a. most interesting work Nerves and the Nervous in which he describes analyzes and explains tho thc universal nervousness of ot the leading Civilized races ff Our nerves are being shattered bythe by bythe the telegraph telephone a a. host of at new amusements t And new worries and wo we nOl l' l pact a not learned to bear the burden Dr Ash fears that in a coming war the shattered nerve perve races will fall an before hn A race with nerves like the tho Chinese k BY DR Da EDWIN A ASH physician for Disease to the thet t General Hospital of London THE most mOll striking and fastest THE l growing feature of society toda today as in the last two decades Is 13 I the the prevalence of ot nervous afflictions k amon amongst st its units This increasing nervous ous tendency is seen In every walk of life showing itself everywhere e in inthe the mass masa b by the prevalent craving for tor tori i excitement for change for a new sen- sen atlon for tor anything Indeed that will stimulate dl diseased nerves In the tho unit unitH It H eh Itself in n a mass of or strange te fears n. n fancies tancle and actual nerve ner mimIcry mimicry mim- mim of disease and affliction t known know to medicine A ure sure and certain sign of at a dC degenerate degenerate degen degen- en erate frate or the strung highly trung nervous nervous' Item is 18 Irritability and craving for forsh ire fresh sh excitement its desire for pleasure pleasure pleas pleas- ure after pleasure its intolerance of at systematic i labor and its boredom If It excitement falls fails One sees it in the individual whoso whose failing is to be reflected re reflected reflected re- re In the life ute of at the thc community tit da a whole The growth of at this extreme excitability excitability excitability on London as lU a community had ts first appalling expression on that remarkable night some lome years a ago when the news of or the relief of ot Mafeking ng was as received The night gave a new word to the tho dictionary as in indicative indicative In- In of ot all that is rowdy and uncontrollable un- un controllable In the behavior of at an any anybody anybody body of ot people No B-No No ia Noone one ono who witnessed the orgies on the streets that nl night ht could ever deny t tilt that t Londoners 1 if excited en mae masse maee e are ire capable of ot the abnormal excitability tiT ity and the remarkable suS' suS suggestibility that one finds so frequently In the Individual In Individual In- In whose nerves are strung over and out of order Since then those thoe who ho have ha watched the nerv nerves I of ot the people know that the process Is 15 going on n year rear by b- bear year ear till at the present time th tM the English are one of ot the most neu- neu Q r. r and excitable races on the Ule face tf of the earth an and their once reputed dignity t. seems gone bone forever Arc c our racked nerve people even cn eveni i a match for the more cautious phlegmatic foes the foes the Chinese Chinese e Ru Russian and nd other races that races that threaten from without And our kinsmen across the Atlantic whose reckless f expenditure expenditure expendi expendi- ture of 01 nerve force torce Is a n marvel manel in the eyes oes of ot the world are the they secure from the attacks of a more sober race Is there no people whose ener energies les are well con conserved ened who ma may seriously threaten their freedom In the future During the past fifty years year tho the strain on the human nervous system has In Increased Increased increased In- In creased with extraordinary rapid rapidity It more so so o probably than during an any other half century In the tho history of at the therace therace race It H is quite certain that tho civilized civi- civi llred peoples of ot the earth have not had time to develop a resistance capable of or properly withstanding the enormous stress of at life lite under the conditions In which it l 1 is lived In the thc great cities of or the tho world The tele telegraph raph the telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone and other devices of ot modern eel eel- science sel- sel ence enco have combined to im burden our brains and nerves neres with sensations ideas and perils from every quarter of or orthe the globe Persons whose nervous systems are arc constitutionally weak eak form a aver very definite definite def deC def def- type and one which one can recognize rec rec rec- o easily amongst those aroun around us The They are frequently thin and delicately I formed ormed Nervous ous er hands with tapering fingers and thin active limbs are nearly nearly near near- I ly always alwa's found In th these se people The They I are quick and intelligent beyond their theIr themselves 61 friends friend and their theft relations whilst In ng s a and ela relations ab are arc think think- Is one comparatively of ot the little abou about them It I a person of ot most difficult things s for tor I nervous temperament to realize that ho himself estimate tends to overestimate over over- his own Importance eyes of ot those around him In the A 4 constitutional nerve patient Is able to do much less stead steady work than a normal individual but at the same time he is often otten able to togo to-go go through three or four tour times Umes a as much In the same time The buzzing and other noises which so common commonly bother nervous people not unnaturally lead lend them to suppose that there is some seine serious destructive disorder dis dis- order going on Inside their heads and ind this fear tear of at Impending disaster adds greatly to their nervousness and discomfort dis dis- comfort So accustomed am I to having to comfort people about this fear tear of impending Impending Im Im- im- im pending madness that as I I have pointed pointed point point- ed out ut I now regard It as a n. well well- marked sl sign n of or extreme nervous exhaustion ex ex- ex- ex which ma may be looked for a aa as asa a re regular ular symptom symptoms As s a matter of at practical experience people er very rarely go JO mad suddenly It lt Is more than probable that the nervous people of ot the present day arc are C l r if Y Golf is injurious rious to the nerves of a a man who worries worries' about his inability to tomake tomake make a a. hole in good g figures fellows ellos entering Into Inlo whatever they take up with the utmost zeal eal but tiring quickly before belore the they have gone very far tar with it These nervous ous people think a great Jeal teal too much about themselves and so Increase their natural sensitiveness They are thinking a a. great reat deal about paying not only for tor the follies of ot their ancestors in the cl eighteenth nth century 7 but butof butof butot of ot those who lived JIved In the tho days o of the Merry Mern Monarch himself It goes oes without saying that alcoholic history In preceding generations frequently co coincides coIncides coincides co- co with tho the nervousness of ot tho the present generation x i J The telegraph and telephone have continued to wreck the nerves of man by bringing him new anxieties from all quarters of the earth I It not infrequently happens that workers brain who have tired over-tired themselves b by prolonged work livened by any holiday or relaxation resort to tea or of coffee to stimulate their energies They succeed for tor a time in keeping up their output of at good work work work- but at what a cost All that the stimulation lation does os o's Is to unlock and use Uso up stores of ot nerve energy that nature natura has accumulated in view of at some emer emor- gency enc When hen these stores are ere reckless reckless- I ly squandered b- b by ba a false system of ot stimulating over the nerve cells of ot the brain nature comes down on us with a severe sevaro punishment usually In the form of ot a serious Berlou attack on nervous nerv norv- ous otts exhaustion true exhaustion truo neurasthenia neurasthenia- and anti we are luck lucky If 11 w we ye get off ott without without with with- out some permanent disablement Much the same sarno ma may be said of at alcohol al alcohol al- al cohol In relation to the nervous system 65 tem and whilst this Is not the place for tor a consideration of at the uses and abuses of ot alcoholic beverages b by tho the community at it largo large c It ma may at once be said that alcohol Is always alwa's a poison polson to nervous Althou Although h individuals var vary as to the tho effect upon them of ot each of ot the three forms torms of ot smoking it ma may be taken as J Ja a general rule Jule that the pipe Is least harmful owing to the fact tact that condensation condensation con con- occurs in n the stem and thus prevents a good proportion of oC tho the byproducts by by- by pro products from tram reaching the mouth On the other hand th the cigar is most like Uke- ly h to cause injurious effects owing to the fact tact that It affords an an excellent medium through h which moisture laden with and other products can get Into the mouth and antI as a matter of 01 practical observation one finds that excessive excessive ex ex- e cigar smoking smoking- is the most likely like Ulee- l ly of ot the three forms torms to Injure the health I agree certainly that It Is IR the workers brain and the Intellectual who suffer uter most mostly from nerve troubles at tl the present day but I have many times s r remarked m how commonly such man i a ailments occur amongst those who work with their Ir hands Artisans laborers porters por por- women who probably never open a book hoole write or a line domestic son ser ants and na arc are b by no means free from such mch affections and I have some of ot the worst cases amongst patients of or this clas elas During the last ten years or so 50 a anew anew anew new factor factor- has hf been en added to those affecting nerves ryes In regard to tion I refer to the driving of ot motor vehicles of 01 all alt kinds The growth of at modern methods of ot has necessitated tho the training of a large army of ot chauffeurs and It has happened happened hap hap- as might almost have 6 been ex expected expected ex- ex that amon among the individuals who have taken up this new calling there are a certain number whoso whose nerves have been quite unable to stand the constant strain imposed upon them Often Otten at the bottom of 01 obscure cases of ot nerve norve trouble on anI one finds some sex problem unrequited problem unrequited love passion love passion for tor somo some one who through through- circumstances and fate tate is quite inaccessible slights inaccessible slights from a hoped-for hoped lover and lover and what not J q f t s 1 14 n r The The increasing difficulty of fi finding ding a hus husband and is responsible for many nervous nervous nerv nerv- ous ons wrecks among the fair sex I else besides In this same connection must be considered the great problem of ot the tho unmarried affecting as It does vast numbers of ot women who are as things 8 stand at present prevented prevented pre pre- vented from entering Into the state of ot matrimony which after a certain age are areis is Ls the true and amI natural state for tor the majority It a a. problem em that fin r I In only too man many cases affects men as aswell aswell well viell as 18 women To 10 the average e person a secret misdeed misdeed misdeed mis mis- deed brings brines 8 its own punishment which in many respects is a terrible one rhe These e little burdens In course of at time grow row Into heavy weights for tor persons of ot even average strength th of or mind and many of them In time produce the strain nerve which is reflected in Impaired Impaired unpaired Im Im- un- un paired health Tho The worst feature of ot a u. universal nervousness nervousness ner ner- Is the tre frequency of neurasthenia neurasthenia thenia in young youn children and even newborn newborn newborn new new- born babes Nervous r ous children are particularly particularly particularly par par- subject to storms brain which are arc represented ted b by the terrible rages rales some little people who arc are naturally strung over-strung get g-et Into on occasions and If It one follows the tho lives Jives of ot such nervous nervous nervous nerv nerv- ous children it will be found that Inman in inmany inmany man many cases when thc they grow up Into adult life their storms brain persist although h in somewhat different nt forms As a rulo rule the stormy rages of at neu- neu children are represented In la adults by sudden Buddon and andery very ery strong strone- impulses im im- puls pulses s which may lead actually to the smashing of ot objects object but seldom to violence violence vio vio- lence toward individuals One cannot however er get away from the fact tact thata that a certain number of ot terrible crimes do actually result from sudden brainstorms brainstorms brainstorms brain storms t. t n ra n occurring t and A in persons of unstable d U pe men away an au their power of Inhibition and common commonsense sense Any n doctor who has hat had opportunities ties of ot seeing Into the home life lite of ot well-to-do well people and In fact the home lifo life of ot all classes classes' above the extremely poor knows that home quarrels are remarkably common Many of 01 these quarrels depend upon morbid It ity the unhealthy tension the unhealthy un un- un- un healthy health excitability in some Bome ones one's nervous nervous nerv nerv- ous system which under stress of ot circumstances cir has resulted In a n. storm brain expressing itself Itsel In an at attack at- at tack of or ba bad temper which has been misunderstood and has so 80 led to most unfortunate consequences There are aro hundreds o of Instances In which separations and d divorces ones ar are now sou sought in which tho the right rl-ht cause of at action action ac ac- ac- ac tion would have been to consult n a nerve specialist Why h should not an Irritable husband or a nagging wife take such a rea rea- reasonable reasonable reasonable step before seeking legal advice advice advice ad- ad j vice which ma may lead to Irreparable misery mis mis- misery er ery r and disaster for tor them both It Is remarkable that no one seems Beems to have hive noticed or at an any rate to have hav laid great stress on the tho fact tact that such slight ht obstacles as the free tree circulation circulation tion of ot the blood through the vessels of at the brain may adversely Influence the health of ot those who are in the habit of 0 wearing tightly n neck neck- ck- ck clothes That fact however howe ic Ia well veil known to veterinary surgeons who tell us that neck constriction through badly fitting harness is a 3 causative factor facto In staggers In horses and I have myself relieved a horse of or this distressing symptom b by relaxing the tho I throat lash Tt t is equal equally well wen known knon that do dogs s suffer Butter 1 a to grea great grent deal through h having to wear tightly fitting call coU collars rs rs ft t Is not too much then to argue arguo that that those of at us who wear our own collars too tl tightly buttoned ma may find In that practice some ome explanation of ot symptoms symptoms toms ascribed to other causes Golf Galt is 18 supposed to be a splendid recreation for tor the nervous I am quite sure that It Is for tor those people who vho can play pIa that surprising game ame without an any undue anxiety but I 1 am equally certain that for the golfer who wor worries rice ries over o each hole bolo and over each bad stroke he plays and who is In a 1 state of at |
