Superficiality of thought is easily inclined to object to such a physiological interpretation and perhaps to denounce it pathetically as a crude materialism which lowers the dignity of mental work.
We may be guided by the psychological experiments which have been made in the interest of testing the fatigue induced by mental work.
She brought me out of the coma of the chloral after three hours of mental work, and the next day I felt decidedly calmer and less afraid of the coming of night, should I live to meet it, which seemed doubtful.
The demand for privacy and solitude becomes acute among people who do a great deal of mental work.
The study of the conditions of mental work seems to reveal, in brief, that the conditions of fatigue are essentially physical in character.
There may have been very little mental work, but somehow the fatigue of the general physical system is reflected through our central nervous system on the mind as well as the body.
Under these conditions the re-creation that is so important does not take place quite as well as it should, and even sleep does not relieve us from the burden of mental work.
We know from delicate experiments made in physiological laboratories that at times of mental work there is an appreciably larger amount of blood in the head.
I have seen a man suffering from excruciating biliary colic get almost immediate relief when put standing on his head alongside of a lounge.
When I saw her the patient had already coughed up a cup full of purulent fluid and, altogether, about a quart of pus was thus evacuated.
Position is also often of very great importance for the relief of the symptoms of patients suffering from heart affections.
Most of the natural demands have a definite reason and are prophylactic rather than merely a symptom of aimless discomfort.
Your work, therefore, should be mental work, with a fair amount of light physical activity mingled with it, instead of purely physical work.
But the time comes when the work to be done by brain becomes so important that many men of this type give up physical activity entirely and devote all of their time to mental work.
Economy in Memorizing Memorizing is a form of mental workthat is susceptible of management, and several principles of scientific management have been worked out that may greatly assist in the learning of a long and difficult lesson.
Now as to the relation in which both stand to mental work.
I do not think they ever assisted or retarded my mental work.
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