PHYSICIAN WARNS DRIVERS TO RELAX.

NZ Truth, Issue 1017, 23 May 1925, Page 15

PHYSICIAN WARNS DRIVERS TO RELAX.

Don't grip your steering wheel too tightly "when you drive a. car, or you may get neuritis m your shoulders warns Riley I>. Moore, osteopathic physician, writing m "American Motorist." . "The prolonged tension and undue jarring transmitted to' the shoulders may develop neuritis," he says. "Do not lean with your elbows on the I wheel, for long at a time, for like reasons." Dr. Moore says also: "The driver of a car should be alert but not tense, rigid. If you cannot relax, begin at once to learn how. If you are tense from nervousness and fear when driving, and cannot overcome it m a reasonable length of time, you'd better stop driving. Jf you do not. you will wreck your nervous system and m emergency likely wreck your car and a life as well." . It is cheaper to have the brakes re-lined than to wear the lining down to a point where the bands have to be replaced as well.