wreck the youth of mind and spirit, transforming a woman from an active, intelligent, cheerful lady into a feeble, gloomy, despairing one.
We should like to list the chief physiological disturbances that accompany a fit of anger or a state of grief and fear.
First: the digestive apparatus stops its movement.
Second: the secretion of the digestive juices is cut off.
Third: the blood pressure rises.
Fourth: the heartbeats quicken.
Fifth: the spleen contracts and releases its store of red corpuscles into the blood.
Sixth: the two adrenal (or suprarenal) glands secrete the substance adrenaline.
Seventh: the amount of sugar in the blood rises.
Eighth: the skin streams with sweat.
Ninth: the bladder and the bowels sometimes empty themselves.
Anger in particular is a matter of importance in man, because it awakens the sympathetic nerve so as to put the muscular and organic forces under its control on the alert to defend the body; yet it is accompanied by a host of violent disturbances — some connected with the blood vessels, such as fainting and the paling and flushing of the face; some with the heart, such as palpitation and tightness of the chest; some with breathing, such as asthma; some with the stomach and bowels, such as loss of appetite and intestinal colic; and some with the distribution of water and salts in the tissues, such as headache and disturbance of the urine.
People's occupations and worries have multiplied with the multiplying of the burdens and costs of living, and the proportion of nervous and mental illnesses in this age has become greater than it was in past ages, when life was easy and lenient, with no hardship in it and no exhaustion. Yet however toilsome and exhausting life may seem to people, and however little rest its daily incidents may
leave the nervous system, most of these incidents and events can be avoided, or their weight lightened, with a measure of forbearance, patience, and breadth of understanding.
It is certain that the cheerful and hopeful, who look upon life with the eye of hope and optimism, who do not allow their emotions to swerve them from the path of moderation
and good sense, and who do not cower before misfortunes, are sounder of body, longer of life, and fresher in youth and beauty than the complainers and mourners, who magnify petty worries until they fancy them a mountain of griefs.
So be, madam, ever cheerful and hopeful, that your youth — and its dominion over hearts — may endure.
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