Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tbavellinq—Change of Living—Tbopical Diseases. But if overwork of the mental powers is one cause of disturbed digestion, it is most curious, but equally true, that entire freedom from anxiety may be productive of precisely the same effects. Thus we often find that persons who have been perfectly well as long as they were occupied with their ordinary daily work, as soon as they take a hohday become completely knocked up. Now, why is this ? The cause is not the same in all cases ; in some it is owing, perhaps, to an amount of extra strain which preceded the hohday, only manifesting its effects in what is known as reaction ; in others, it is that the busy worker, deprived of his occupation, in the x^ursuit of which he enjoys general good health, is injuriously affected by the condition of things to which he is unaccus-