'Hurried to death', or, A few words of advice on the danger of hurry and excitement : especially addressed to railway travellers / by Alfred Haviland.

  • Haviland, Alfred, -1903.
Date:
1868
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Credit: 'Hurried to death', or, A few words of advice on the danger of hurry and excitement : especially addressed to railway travellers / by Alfred Haviland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. The diseases and structural changes existing in the body, and rendering its life liable to collapse in a moment under the influence of violent exertion, strong emotion, or exhaustive unrest, are to a great extent removed from man’s control, and in the case of the heart and brain not necessarily the result of an abuse of their powers. When I say abuse, I mean immoral abuse ; for man really wastes these keystones of his life’s arch when he overstrains them in the race of ambition or wealth, or even in the long continuous struggle in the rugged and dangerous passes through which poverty, trouble, and disease drive him. Whence, or howsoever, these diseases and these changes arise, it is enough for our present purpose to know the inevitable fact that thousands amongst us carry about with them some flaw, which renders them at any moment prone to sudden death. These flaws are disease-marks, remaining to tell the tale of former hard struggles and dearly-bought victories, which health has had to engage in, and achieve against a foe too often invited by ourselves to attack our citadel during the