Not only are the muscles and glands involved in digestion impaired by fear, but the muscles and glands of the whole body are impaired. Human beings, due to their more highly organized nervous systems, are more quickly and more profoundly affected by emotions than are cats or other animals, and the results are more far reaching.

Children are often made sick through over-wrought emotions. Many are made nervous through fear. The old ignorant plan of teaching children to fear the dark, the bogy man, the devil, etc., caused much unnecessary sickness. Sudden fear often throws a child into convulsions. Fear and excitement cannot do less than cause nervousness and weaken the child's digestive function.

When fear inhibits secretion and excretion the subject becomes autotoxemic, resistance gives way and he becomes sick. Those who pass through epidemics without coming down with "disease" are not badly toxemic and are devoid of fear. Add fear to the epidemic influence and down goes another victim. There is no necessity for health boards to stir up fear; "indeed, the periodic epidemics of fright emanating from health boards should be recognized as disease-producing ; and the boards should be fined to the extent of the law, and their fright-generators taken from them."

Tilden truly says, "True enlightenment is one of the most potent remedial influences. An enlightenment that teaches man to believe in disease being inevitable is disease-provoking. Fear is a child of ignorance. Intelligence banishes fear: hence intelligence is one of the greatest conservators of nerve-energy."

Worry is a baby fear, impairing secretion and excretion and depressing all the functions of the body. It "spoils" the appetite, depresses digestion, alters the secretions, produces constipation and causes sufficient disturbance of metabolism that sugar appears in the urine. Everytime there is a panic in the stock-market, the stockbrokers rash to their physicians to be "cured" of constipation or a functional glycosusia (sugar in the urine). Worry causes an increase of sugar in the urine in diabetes. It is a frequent cause of indigestion and loss of weight. Apprehension, which is akin to worry and fear, has similar effects to worry.

Grief exerts a most profound, far-reaching and powerful effect upon the body. It instantly takes away appetite and often kills outright. It instantly impairs excretion and secretion and lowers function generally. Sorrow, as in disappointed love, produces a wasted state of the body resembling consumption. Blighted love constitutes one of the most fruitful sources of indisposition.

Violent fits of anger often arrest, alter or impair the functions of the body as quickly as an electric shock. Anger rapidly dissipates nerve energy. Cariolanus says:-"Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,

And so shall starve with feeding."

Self-pity has been called mental consumption--it is the dry-rot of the soul. Those whinning, complaining individuals who feel that life has not given them a square deal, who feel sorry for themselves, are in a constant state of depression. Such a mental and emotional state depresses every function in the body, impairs digestion and builds pathology. Those without self-control; those who look for entertainment outside of self-- those who are immoderate in everything; the unpoised, the selfish, the envious, the egotistical, are wretched. These people find that everything they eat disagrees with them, their bowels do not function properly, their heads ache and their bodies are weak. They are victims of constant introspection and are continually discovering new symptoms, new pains, new worries to add to their miseries, and, since they are always troubling others with their woes, to add to the troubles of others. These people never get well until they are educated out of their self-pity.

Jealousy is a curious combination of fear, worry, anger, self-pity and wounded vanity. It consumes nerve energy at a rapid rate and. hardens the features as few things will. When it dethrones reason it is a devastating pestilence. Hatred, envy, and fault-finding are equally wasteful of energy.

Domestic worries, marital infelicities, business cares, professional anxieties, competitive antagonisms, political feuds, friendly rivalries, social aspirations, driving ambitions are only some of the things that are continually wearing out a large number of our race. They have a thousand and one things to stimulate, to enervate, to excite, to depress. Everywhere we go we find them fretting, fighting, fuming and fussing until they absolutely wear themselves down to a mere frazzle.

There are the many heavy blows that paralyze your guard and render you defenseless. Financial losses, fire losses, "acts of God," unjust accusations, domestic infelicities, shattered ambitions, disappointed hopes, brain storms, law suits, quarrels and strife. "These are collisions that wreck and destroy." It has been seriously contended that few men die of old age, for the reason that almost everyone is the victim of disappointment, bodily toil, or of accident. Nervous unrest due to such "psychic shock" is labeled neurosis.

A woman who is tormented with a husband who drinks lives in a state of anxiety; if she is married to a husband who is unfaithful, jealousy, anger and rage are probably added to anxiety and sorrow. The husband who is married to an unfaithful wife finds himself in the same emotional predicament.

Children brought up in the uncertainty and cyclonic atmosphere of marital infidelity and domestic fighting live in a state of anxiety and apprehension. Parents of wayward children are equally anxious and troubled.

Discontent is very enervating. The discontented and unhappy fail to realize that their tomorrows are made up of todays. They waste their energy in the cultivation of discontent and weaken and die prematurely. The undisciplined and unpoised who chafe under restrictions and restraint waste energy rapidly. Radicals, who allow their emotions to dominate their efforts to correct evils, become neurotic and die prematurely. Only the poised radical can escape this. Discontent becomes a "disease," that can be "cured," only by removing the cause. Discontent and insomnia are the penalties we pay for overstimulation, overworked pleasure, premature success and the desire for unearned advancement. Those who seek effortless achievement, who want to do something and be something without being and doing it, are especially prone to discontent.

There is, of course, a wholesome discontent that all men should have; for it is the soul of ambition. It is the driving force behind ambition. Contentment without ambition is not desirable for it leads to stagnation, inertia, retrogression. The discontent of a purposeless life is physiologically as well as psychologically demoralizing. "There are thousands of sick women who are being doctored and operated upon to cure them of the consequences of objectless lives."