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ing for some time, as though he feared that some fever
or other ailment might result from the over-exertion,
excitement, and fasting; for the farmer had told him
how far I had come, and how I staggered into the house,
and sat down greedily to eat, but failed to swallow
a mouthful. I was somewhat uneasy myself before
going to sleep, not so much on account of the amount
of fatigue undergone — for I had done many foolish
things of the like kind before, under the intoxicating
influence of the mountain air—but my alarm was
suggested by the peculiar symptoms, the utter absence of
any sensation of muscular fatigue, and the existence of
an odd desire to keep on walking or half running. This,
of course, was unnatural, and a symptom of nervous
derangement; fatigue being the monitor appointed to
warn us from destroying our bodies by excess of labour,
and anything deranging that sense is a serious mischief.
I always have protested, and always will protest, most
urgently, against the insane folly, so prevalent among all
classes, educated and uneducated—medical men included
— of using stimulants as a remedy for fatigue, as means of
“refreshment” after labour, and as a whip to drive the
brain or body on to further exertion. Whatever may
be argued in favour of the use of such things at other
times, there cannot be a doubt that this most common
use is necessarily pernicious, for there is no other
remedy for fatigue than rest. That feeling, reverently
regarded — as it should be — is the voice of our Creator
calling upon us to stop: to cease in a course of action
that will damage the wondrous mechanism He has
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