There is a disturbance of the circulation which results in very marked swelling and redness of the affected part.  This is known as angio-neurotic edema, or nervous swelling.  I do not have to go farther than my own person for an example of this phenomenon.  When I was a young woman I taught school and went home every day for luncheon.  One day at luncheon, some one of the family criticized me severely.  I went back to school very angry.  Before I entered the school-room, the principal handed me some books which she had ordered for me.  They were not at all the books I wanted, and that upset me still more.  As I went into the schoolroom, I found that my face was swollen until my eyes were almost shut; it was a bright red and covered with purplish blotches.  My fingers were swollen so that I could not bend the joints in the slightest degree.  It was a day or two before the disturbance disappeared, and the whole of it was the result of anger.

We hear much to-day about high blood pressure.  They say that a man is as old as his arteries, and now it is known that the health of the arteries depends largely on blood pressure.  Since this is a matter that can be definitely measured at any minute, we have an easy way of noting the remarkable effect of shifting emotions.  Sadler tells of an ex-convict with a blood pressure of 190 millimeters.  It seems that he was worrying over possible rearrest.  On being reassured on this point, his blood pressure began to drop within a few minutes, falling 20 mm. in three hours, and 35 mm. by the following day.

=Muscular Tone.= A force that affects circulation, blood pressure, respiration, nutrition of cells, secretion, and digestion, can hardly fail to have a marked effect on the tone of the muscles, internal as well as external.  When we remember that heart, stomach, and intestines are made of muscular tissue, to say nothing of the skeletal muscles, we begin to realize how important is muscular tone for bodily health.  Over and over again have I demonstrated that a courageous mind is the best tonic.  Perhaps an example from my “flat-footed” patients will be to the point.  One woman, the young mother of a family, came to me for a nervous trouble.  Besides this, she had suffered for seven or eight years from severe pains in her feet and had been compelled to wear specially made shoes prescribed by a Chicago orthopedist.  The shoes, however, did not seem to lessen the pain.  After an ordinary day’s occupation, she could not even walk across the floor at dinner-time.  A walk of two blocks would incapacitate her for many days.  She was convinced that her feet could never be cured and came to me only on account of nervous trouble.  On the day of her arrival she flung herself down on the couch, saying that she would like to go away from everybody, where the children would never bother her again.  She was sure nobody loved her and she wanted to die.  Within three weeks, in ordinary shoes, this woman tramped nine miles up