Editorial January 30, 1915 Issue

"In perfect peace"

Archibald McLellan

Recently we called attention to an editorial criticism by the New York World of an address delivered by a physician before a section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in which the speaker was quoted as saying that "when a man of active affairs feels an exuberance of health, and is able to accomplish a greatly increased amount of work without sense of fatigue, he is in danger and should consult a physician." More recently the New York Evening Post comments, in much the same strain of gentle ridicule as did the World, on a slightly different statement of the same medical contention, viz., "A man of active affairs is in danger when he loses the fatigue sense so that his capacity for work seems to be increased at fifty, when it ought to be the same or even less than in youth." We regret that our space will not permit us to reprint in full the Post editorial, but we quote in part as follows:—

Do you get eight hours of unbroken sleep every night? Do you rise refreshed and eager for the work of the day? Do you approach your meals with a pleasant sense of anticipation? Is your complexion clean and ruddy? Is your eye exceptionally clear? Are you capable of long stretches of hard application to your desk in time of emergency? Are you a stranger to the sense of fatigue? If any of these symptoms manifest themselves you had better see a doctor. For it is plain that one of the Subtler Ailments has got hold of you. Pitiful enough is the case of the man who must fight against pain and ill-health. Infinitely more pitiful, according to the Higher Medicine, is the victim of bouncing good health. Look about you at the men of fifty and over who work hard, sleep hard, eat well, and laugh loud and long; mark them carefully; they are sturdy, hearty, ruddy sepulchers, who have absorbed too many proteins. . . .

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