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named by specialists as Afrosexia, and has reference to the 
peculiar want of attention, and loss of memory, and the early 
onset of fatigue caused by the presence of adenoids in the nostrils 
and throat. It is thought to be due to the interference of the 
lymph current through the brain. In some schools the morning’s 
work is too long. Studies from 9.30 to 1.30, with only fifteen 
minutes’ break, will inevitably produce fatigue in both boys and 
girls who are not strong. Mothers have described to me the 
condition in which their girls have reached home after an 
especially fatiguing morning’s work. Pale, irritable, passionate, 
or silent and morose, with hardly energy enough to take food, 
and with certainly not sufficient digestive power to assimilate it. 
A good master will adapt the time and subject of the lessons 
_ SO as not to overtax and exhaust the brain. He will also see that 
the pupils have a proper period for relaxation and sleep. The 
boy or man who studies much, sleeps little, and plays less, is 
riding for a fall) When Cervantes wished to make Don Quixote 
mad he made him read much and sleep little , thus his brain be- 
came enfeebled, and then it was good-bye to sound judgment. 
A word about Examinations. Unless they have been greatly 
modified from what they were formerly I feel sure they tend to 
cause unnecessary fatigue. I remember three young men going 
up for a surgical examination. Part of the examination was a 
paper in Anatomy and Surgical Anatomy lasting four hours. 
They started to write at eleven, and continued as though the rest 
of their lives depended on it, until three o’clock: At that time 
you may be sure they were all thoroughly fatigued, for the time 
being, at any rate. They found it difficult to recall the names of 
drugs or diseases. As this work had to be followed by a viva voce 
at five they were somewhat exercised as to the best way of spending 
the intervening two hours. Two of their number decided for a 
good meal and an hour’s reading ; the other took a sponge cake 
and a cup of coffee ; a short walk and a rest on the couch. The 
coffee, cakes and rest beat the square meal and the hard hour’s 
reading. A short time ago I happened to be in the precincts of 
the London University as the would be matriculants were streaming 
out of the examination hall after the three hours’ morning 
mathematical paper. This was at one o’clock. In many of them 
I noticed very evident signs of fatigue, and when I thought that 
in an hour these same students would be back at the same desks, 
with their brains concentrated on work very much like the 
morning work, I said to myself ‘‘ Surely this is a very unfair, and 
a very unscientific way of testing knowledge and judgment.” The 
mornirg paper was on Arithmetic and Algebra; the afternoon 
three hours was spent at geometrical work. In an examination 
test of that kind physical endurance counts. as well as mental 
ability. I would suggest that fatigue would be. much less_likely 
