Emotional Excitement in Children

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 24, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 24.

Emotional Excitement in Children

Dr. Taylor says: "In my large practice among children I am certain that scores are literally killed by the excessive amount of emotional excitement which they are forced to endure. All this hugging and kissing and talking to them is to excite responses of the same emotional nature in the child for the pleasure and gratification of the parents and friends." And again he says: "I believe that three-fifths of the spinal diseases which occur in children are directly traceable to mental overaction. And this because a large proportion of these cases get well without other treatment than a withdrawal from the exciting cause of emotional disturbance."