“A GOOD LAUGH.”
I believe there is authority that some will not question for saying “that a merry heart doetli good like a medicine. A good hearty langh will stir np and stimulate tlie nervous system most helpfully, promoting digestion, respiration, and all of the vital functions. The man who will laugh heartily every day will add to his length of days. lai better a smile than a sigh, which is said to be. a nail in our coffin. . . A number of years ago a physician of my acquaintance was known as the “laughing doctor,” because of Ins merry, laughing, sparkling manner and countenance, and he gave to his patients that of which he had and was very successful, giving but little medicine, and in many cases none at all, simply driving away the blues, and the disease brought with them, or that brought' them at the same time. . ' It is recorded of patients that the, visit of a genial friend who has brought sunshine and a story with a laugh in it has turned the tide towards recovery.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1612, 21 January 1903, Page 26
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