Word: lancet
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...Lancet considers cigarettes more hurtful than pipes or cigars, and thinks that all men in training should be forbidden to smoke them...
According to the Lancet, "brain tension is not a proof of strength but of weakness. The knit brow, straining eyes, and fixed attention of the scholar are not tokens of power, but of effort. The intellectual man with a strong mind does his brain work easily. Tension is friction, and the moment the toil of a growing brain becomes laborious it should cease. We are, unfortunately, so accustomed to see brain work done with effort that we have come to associate effort with work, and to regard tension as something tolerable, if not natural. As a matter of fact...