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189").] Docr.MEXT No. IT). 9
in the permanent i-eliof of the in.snno. Activity, so e.ssen-tial
to the health of the sane, is equally iisoful in restoring
functional impairment in tlic insane. It promotes good
appetite and digestion: it has a quieting and soothing in-fluence
upon the brain and nervous system, promoting
sound and refreshing sleep, and thus contributes to the
mental, moral and [ihysical health of the ))atient.
"In in.sanitv," savs one authoritv, "we have an abnor-mal
state of nervous tension and pent up nerve force, which
must expend itself in some direction and generate an equiva-lent
manifestation of force, either in feeling, thought or
bodily action. If, then, we cau.se the nervous excitement
or pent up nerve force to be expended in bodily or muscu-iai-
action by means of emj)loyment, we correspondingly
decrease the morbid thoughts and feelings whieh are caused
by the intensity of the cerel)ral excitement. If we allow
our i)atients to remain idle, the whole pent up nerve force
is expended and concentrated upon thoughts and feelings
whicli become morbidly intensified and perverted and at
last produce incurable and organic changes in tlie brain."
In this institution patients are not forced to work, but
every one who has any mental capacity left and has suffi-cient
physical strength is encouraged to do something.
Kven the demented are often greatly benefited by some
light labor, and by this means vicious hal)its and ind(>cent
l»ractices are very much modified or entirely liroken up,
and the sufi'erers made much more comfortable and less
care to those who have tlieni in clmrgc. Idleness is a con-stant
sin, emj)loynii'nt a duty. Sji- Andrew Clai-k, tlie
great English physician, .said: " Employment and exercise
mean health, idleness means death."
In this institution we ni-e able to give our male patients
employment to a far greater extent than the females, as
the latter cannot work on the faini. and the beneficial
effects ai'e vei'y aj»i»arent in tlie nioi-e rapid and frequent
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| Full Text | 189").] Docr.MEXT No. IT). 9 in the permanent i-eliof of the in.snno. Activity, so e.ssen-tial to the health of the sane, is equally iisoful in restoring functional impairment in tlic insane. It promotes good appetite and digestion: it has a quieting and soothing in-fluence upon the brain and nervous system, promoting sound and refreshing sleep, and thus contributes to the mental, moral and [ihysical health of the ))atient. "In in.sanitv," savs one authoritv, "we have an abnor-mal state of nervous tension and pent up nerve force, which must expend itself in some direction and generate an equiva-lent manifestation of force, either in feeling, thought or bodily action. If, then, we cau.se the nervous excitement or pent up nerve force to be expended in bodily or muscu-iai- action by means of emj)loyment, we correspondingly decrease the morbid thoughts and feelings whieh are caused by the intensity of the cerel)ral excitement. If we allow our i)atients to remain idle, the whole pent up nerve force is expended and concentrated upon thoughts and feelings whicli become morbidly intensified and perverted and at last produce incurable and organic changes in tlie brain." In this institution patients are not forced to work, but every one who has any mental capacity left and has suffi-cient physical strength is encouraged to do something. Kven the demented are often greatly benefited by some light labor, and by this means vicious hal)its and ind(>cent l»ractices are very much modified or entirely liroken up, and the sufi'erers made much more comfortable and less care to those who have tlieni in clmrgc. Idleness is a con-stant sin, emj)loynii'nt a duty. Sji- Andrew Clai-k, tlie great English physician, .said: " Employment and exercise mean health, idleness means death." In this institution we ni-e able to give our male patients employment to a far greater extent than the females, as the latter cannot work on the faini. and the beneficial effects ai'e vei'y aj»i»arent in tlie nioi-e rapid and frequent |
