Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1877 — Mind and Health. [ARTICLE]

Mind and Health.

The Science of Health says on this subject: “The mental condition has more influence upon the bodily health than is generally supposed. It is no doubt true that ailments of the body cause a depressing and morbid condition of the mind, but it is no less true that sorrowful and disagreeable emotions produce disease in persons who, uninfluenced by them, would be in sound health—or, if disease is not produced, the functions are disordered. Not even physicians always consider the importance of this fact. Agreeable emotions set in motion nervous currents, which stimulate blood, brain, and every part of the system into healthful activity; while grief, disappointment of feeling, and brooding over present sorrows or past mistakes depress all the vital forces. To be physically well one must, in general, bo happy. The reverse is not always true; one may be happy and cheerful, and yet be a constant sufferer in body. ” In the kingdom of Prussia, among 6,000,000 births, there were seventy-nine cases of four at a birth, and one case of five at a birth.