How Worry Affects The Braie

Modern seience has hrouglit to liglit nothing more curiotisly interesting than the fact that worry will kil!. More renarkable still it has been able to determine, from recent discoveries, jast how worry does kill, says tlie Pharmaceütical Product. It is believed by many scieutists who lave followed most carefully the growth of the science of braiu diseases, that scores of the deaths set down to other causes are due to worry, and that alone. The theory is a simple one - so simple ;hat unyone can readily underst.ttid it. Briefly but, t amounts to tliis: Worry njures beyond repair certain cells of the jrain; and tlie brain being the nutriti ve center of the body, the other organs becowe gradually injured, and wheu some disease of these organs, or a combination of them, arises, deatli finally eusues. Thus does worry kill. Insidiously, like many another disease, it creeps upo n the braiu in the iorm of a single, constant, never lost idea; and, as the: dropping of water over a period of yeara will wear a groove in a stone, so does worry gradually, imperceptibly, but no less surely, destroy the brain cells that lead all the rest- that are, so to speak, the commaudiug offtcers of mental power, health and motion. Worry, to inake the theory still stronger, is an irritant at certain points, which produces little harm if it comes at intervals orirregularly. Occasional wording of the system the brain can cope with, but the iteration and reiteration of one idea, of a disquieting sort the cells of tlie brain are not proof against. It is as if the skull were laid bare and tlie surface of the braiu gtruck lightly with a hammer ever few seconds, with niechanical precisión, with never a sigu of a letup or the failure of a stroke. Just this way does the aunoying idea, the maddening thought that will not be done away with, strike or fall upon certain nerve cells, never ceasing, and week by week diminishing the vitality of these delicate organisms that are so minute that they can only be seen under the microscope.