LAUGHTER: A HEALTH PRESERVATIVE.
Tiiere is not (sajs a recent writer) the remotest corner or Utile inlet of the minute blood vessels of the human body that does not feel some wavelet, from the convulsions occasioned by a good hearty laugh. The life principle,' or the cential man. is shaken to the innermost depths, sending new tides of life and strength to the surface, thus materially tending to ensure good health to persons who indulge therein. The blood moves more rapidly, and conveys a different/ impression to all the organs of the body as it visits them on that particular jwirney 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 s!;imulous to the vital forces, Doubtless the time when physicains, conceding more importance than they now do to the influence of the mind upon the vital forces of the body, will makeup their prescriptions more' with reference to the mind and less tu drugs for them, and will in so doing find the best and most affective method of producing the effect upon the patient.
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Waikato Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 3501, 1 December 1894, Page 12
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