THE" LAUGHTER CURE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 101, 30 April 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE LAUGHTER CURE.

There is, says a doctor, not the' remotest corner or -little inlet of the minute blood vessels of the human, body that does not feel some wavelet from the convulsions occasioned .by good, hearty laughter. The life principle, or the.central man, 'is shaken to the 'innermost depths, sending new types of life and, strength to the surface, thus materially tending to insure good health to the persons who indulge therein. The blood moves I more rapidly and conveys a different I impression to all theorgans of the body as it visits them on that -".particular journey when the man is..laughing" from what it does at other times. For this reason every good hearty laugh in which, a »person indulges lengthens his life; conveying ■as,:, it does,new and distinct stimulus to the vital forces. Doubtless the time will come when physicians, concediiig^

more importance than they do now to the influence of the mind upon the vital foices of the 'body, will .make .up their prescriptions more with reference to the mind and less to drugs, and will in so doing find the best and niost effective -method .of producing the effect upon the patient.—'London Paper.'1.- •. ■■•. ■ ; ■.■'• :. ■-.'■ ''. . ... [ ;.