American Nervousness, Its Causes and Consequences: A Supplement to Nervous Exhaustion (neurasthenia)Putnam, 1881 - 352 Seiten 2000, Gift of the South Carolina State Hospital. |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
alcohol amblyopia Ameri American nervousness asthenopia average beauty become brain brain-workers Bright's disease catarrh century chorea civilization classes clergymen climate cold debility decay degree developed drinking dryness dyspepsia early endurance England English epilepsy Europe excess exciting causes extreme fact fame functional nervous diseases genius German Goethe golden decade Gulf Stream habit hay-fever heat hundred increase Indian inebriety insanity intellectual irritation labor large number less live longevity ment mental mine-a modern moisture muscle-workers muscular nature near-sightedness negroes nerve nerve-force nervous diathesis nervous diseases nervous exhaustion nervous system ness neuralgia neurasthenia never observed oftentimes old age opium organization original pain philosophy physical physicians precocious race reason relation of age result savage scientific sensitive sick-headache strength suffer symptoms temperature thought thousand tion toil trance tremes tricity women worry Writer's Cramp young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite vi - The chief and primary cause of this development and very rapid increase of nervousness is modern civilization, which is distinguished from the ancient by these five characteristics: steam power, the periodical press, the telegraph, the sciences, and the mental activity of women...
Seite 253 - For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Seite 23 - There are more multimillionaires in the United States than in all the rest of the world combined, even if we include the quasi-governmental wealth of the princes of India and the East.
Seite 245 - New ideas build their nests in young men's brains. " Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles," as I once heard it remarked, and the first whispers of a new truth are not caught by those who begin to feel the need of an ear-trumpet.
Seite 247 - ... post ubi iam validis quassatum est viribus aevi corpus et obtusis ceciderunt viribus artus, claudicat ingenium, delirat lingua, labat mens, omnia deficiunt atque uno tempore desunt. ergo dissolui quoque convenit omnem animai...
Seite 204 - ... of starvation on the other ; to take continual thought of to-morrow, without any good result of such thought; to feel each anxious hour that the dreary treadmill by which we secure the means of sustenance for a hungry household may, without warning, be closed by any number of forces, over which one has no control ; to double and triple all the horrors of want and pain by anticipation and rumination — such is the life of the muscleworking classes of modern civilized society ; and when we add...
Seite 268 - ... the vital power of the man. That longevity depends not a little, on the will, no one will dispute. The whole subject of the relation of mental character to longevity is one of vast interest, and is too far-reaching to be here discussed ; but this single point must be granted without argument, that of two men every way alike and similarly circumstanced, the one who has the greater courage and grit will be the longerlived. One does not need to practice medicine long to learn that men die that might...
Seite 287 - The history of the world's progress from savagery to barbarism, from barbarism to civilization, and, in civilization, from the lower degrees toward the higher, is the history of increase in average longevity, corresponding to, and accompanied by, increase of nervousness. Mankind has grown to be at once more delicate and more enduring, more sensitive to weariness and yet more patient of toil, impressible, but capable of bearing powerful...
Seite 210 - Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such : it is an accident, not a property, of a man ; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given...
Seite 273 - Their callings admit of a wide variety of toil. — In their manifold duties their whole nature is exercised — not only brain and muscle in general, but all, or nearly all, the faculties of the brain — the religious, moral, and emotional nature, as well as the reason. Public speaking, when not carried to the extreme of exhaustion, is the best form of gymnastics that is known ; it exercises every inch of a man, from the highest regions of the brain to the smallest muscle.