STUDY AND THE STOMACH.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 233, 2 October 1925, Page 7

STUDY AND THE STOMACH.

MUSCLE USER'S FOOD. NOT RIGHT FOR THE BRAIN "WORKER. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. Sir Arthur Keith, thp famous anatomist, lecturing at King's College, gave an interesting analysis of the character of the student habit. He was of opinion that the energy in an ounce of sugar would be enough to produce any of .Shakespeare's plays if it found its way to the brain of an equally gifted poet. The ordinary man's appetite was not that of the brain' worker, but of the muscle user. Sooner or later the stomach of the professional student had to pay the price as Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley and Spencer did, who were : m tfifferers from students' disease. The more students gave their stomachs the higher the price the have to pay

The majority of eminent scholars had no scholarly lineage. They came from the Highland glens, the Welsh hills, and the English villages. There were vast virgin fields of untapped talent. It was possible to damage the body by overstudy, but not to damage the brain. No man ever used his brain up to its full capacity.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)