1 88 ANSWERS TO PRACTICAL QUESTIONS 



health of a man is not that of an ox or a horse." The 

 proper exercise of the brain is an essential element of 

 real life. 



33. State the close relation which exists between physical 

 and mental health and disease. 



" A partial cultivation of the mental faculties is incom- 

 patible not only with the highest order of thought, but 

 with the highest degree of health and efficiency. The 

 result of professional experience fairly warrants the 

 statement that in persons of a high grade of intellec- 

 tual endowment and cultivation, other things being equal, 

 the force of moral shocks is more easily broken, tedious 

 and harassing exercise of particular powers more safely 

 borne, than in those of an opposite description, and dis- 

 ease, when it comes, is more readily controlled and cured. 

 The kind of management which consists in awakening a 

 new order of emotion, in exciting new trains of thought, 

 in turning attention to some new matter of study or 

 speculation, must be far less efficacious, because less 

 applicable, in one whose mind has always had a limited 

 range than in one of larger resources and capacities. In 

 endeavoring to restore the disordered mind of the clod- 

 hopper who has scarcely an idea beyond that of his 

 manual employment, the great difficulty is to find some 

 available point from which conservative influences may 

 be projected. He dislikes reading, he never learned 

 amusements, he feels no interest in the affairs of the 

 world ; and unless the circumstances allow of some kind 

 of bodily labor, his mind must remain in a state of soli- 

 tary isolation, brooding over its morbid fancies, and 

 utterly incompetent to initiate any recuperative move 

 ment" Dr. RAY. 



