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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 10.

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MENTAL OVERWORK.

MENTAL and bodily overwork is the most general and least regarded form of illness in this age. Its treatment requires that due attention be paid to the two great essentials of timely rest and wholesome diet.
A man may work on a liberal scale, provided he interrupts its continuity by timely and adequate intervals of rest, and will eat heartily of plain food. So long as appetite and sleep are unimpaired, there is little danger of overwork, but the failure of either is nature’s warning signal that the strain must be relieved.
—London Lancet.
Every man should lay this warning to heart. The wretchedness, too terrible for expression, that the victim of overwork endures when the sleeplessness and indigestion attendant upon it have taken firm hold upon him, only those who have experienced can have the faintest conception of. Let that man take warning who is not sleeping well; but if to this, gradually increasing indigestion is added, he may rest assured he is rapidly approaching the whirlpool of destruction, from which nothing can save him but an immediate and radical change of life.
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