Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1878 — Edison’s Illness. [ARTICLE]

Edison’s Illness.

Thomas A. Edison is seriously ill at his residence at Menlo Park. He will have thousands of wishes for his recovery ; and if he lHes it ought to suggest to him Avliat his friends have long seen, that his career Avill be as brief as it is brilliant unless he condescends to take better care of his health. During the last ten years Edison’s life has been like a military campaign, and he has been as exposed as a soldier. The laAvs of health are inexorable, and.the human body Avill not be trifled Avith. If a man neglects to take regular meals, and eats whatever is put before him wherever and whenever he can catch it; if he subjects himself to extreme alternation (u of heat and cold, and, above all, if Tie turns night into day, and refuses to go to bed till sunrise for tlie frivolous reason that he “has got an idea,” he will have to pay for his imprudence in neuralgia, brain diseases, fevers and early death. Edison’s engine runs at too high pressure, and apparently without any safety-valve. He must go slower if he wishes to enjoy any of the fruits of his marvelous ingenuity.—New York Graphic.