Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1868 — Advantages of Crying. [ARTICLE]

Advantages of Crying.

A French physician is out with a long dissertation <g) the advantage of groaning and crying in general, and especially during operations. Jle contends that groaning and crying are two grand operations by which nature aliaya anguish; that those patients who give away to their natural feelings more speedily recover irom accident operations than those wha suppose It unworthy a man to betray such symptoms of cowardice Its to either groan or cry. He tells of a man who reduced his pulse trom one hundred and twentysix to sixty in course of two hours by giving full vent to his emotions. If people are nt all unhappy about any thing, let them go into their rooms and comfort themselves with a loud boo-boo, and they will feel a hundred per cent, better afterward. In accordance with the above, the crying of children should not be too greatly discouraged. If it is systematically repressed, the results may be St. V tlus dance, epcliptic fits, or some other disease of the nervous system. "What is natural is nearly always usciul, and nothing is more natural than the crying of children when anything occurs to give them either mental or physioaf^iain. ■————*-**-*- —*■ *tork Herald (tolls TUtouthe molasses of journalism, audFhillips the vinegar. Mixed with the? brimstone of lien-net,-the compound would be good y for the itch