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Excerpt from The Herald of Health, and Journal of Physical Culture, 1872: Advocates a Higher Type of Manhood-Moral, Physical and Intellectual; Vols. 53, 54
The first enact of violent grief or trouble of mind, is deprivation of the powers of digestion. A man in the best health, the highest good humor and spirits, as well as good stomach, sit ting down to dinner with his friends. Receives suddenly some very amicting news. Instantly his appetite is gone, and he can not swallow a morsel. Let them thing happen after he has made a hearty, cheerful meal; as suddenly the action of his stomach ceases. The whole power of digestion is cut of? Totally, as if it were become paralytic, and what he has eaten lies a most oppressive load. N ow, what connection is there between a piece of bad news and a man's stomach, full or empty? It is, says Cadogan, hecause the animal spirits, or action of the nerves, whatever he the secret cause of their power, are called o?' to supply and support the tumultuous agitation oi the brain, and the stomach, with all its appendages and secretions, is left powerless and paralytic. In this case, the lungs, which always sympathise with the distresses of the stomach, endeavor to relieve their oppression by a deep sigh.
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