HEALTH OF MIND.
Intimate Connection between the Body and Mind—Brain excited by
improper Stimulants taken into the Stomach—Mental Faculties then
affected—Causes of mental Disease—Want of oxygenized Blood—Fresh
Air absolutely necessary—Excessive Exercise of the Intellect or
Feelings—Such Attention to Religion as prevents the Performance of
other Duties wrong—Unusual Precocity in Children usually the Result
of a diseased Brain—Idiocy often the Result, or the precocious Child
sinks below the Average of Mankind—This Evil yet prevalent in Colleges
and other Seminaries—A medical Man necessary in every Seminary—Some
Pupils always needing Restraint in regard to Study—A third Cause
of mental Disease, the Want of appropriate Exercise of the various
Faculties of the Mind—Extract from Dr. Combe—Beneficial Results of
active intellectual Employments—Indications of a diseased Mind 293