The Intimate Causes of Old Age. 237 



All of us who have had a normal childhood and youth, 

 can recall the time when we were wont to wake in the 

 morning feeling rested, with a willingness to rise and 

 resume the business and pleasures of living ; when we 

 wakened with a happy sense of having been soundly 

 asleep, so soundly that the world looks almost strange for 

 the moment in its newness. That is the normal time, 

 when the neurons are properly refreshed and renovated ; 

 it is that ideal condition which we should strive to 

 maintain through life. 



How properly to cultivate, nourish, and guard the 

 brain neurons, in order that they may form a strong per- 

 sonality and generate a protective aura of health — that 

 priceless vis medicatrix naturce — is a most important 

 inquiry, so important, indeed, so pertinent to our quest 

 after longer, happier life, that the culture and husbandry 

 of the brain and nervous system will be the subject of our 

 next paper, in the edition for 1907. 



