Category: Health & Medicine
A friend, to whom I read the Introduction, criticised the quotation with which I have concluded it. She objected that I thereby gave too high a place to mere knowledge. I replied that I referred to the highest kind of knowledge. This argument, however, fails to satisfy those w...
Many minor causes of nervous exhaustion have been so often cited, and such serious warnings have been uttered against them, that it is scarcely worth while to draw attention to...
5. CHAPTER III.We are most of us so far enlightened concerning our nervous systems as to regard our nerves as a very useful means of communication between the various parts of our machinery. T...
10. CHAPTER VIII.To treat such a subject adequately in so small a space is obviously an impossibility. It must suffice to point out some of the chief causes of nerve-deterioration in present con...
11. CHAPTER IX.We mould the clay while it is soft, that it may not be chipped or pulverised when it is hard by contact with obstacles which it has not been fitted to overcome. Is the process u...
9. CHAPTER VII.All those to whose lot it has fallen to minister to the wants of sufferers from nervous disease must have come across cases which they were expected to benefit, but for whom, ma...
7. CHAPTER V.We must bear in mind the fact that all observation is difficult, not only because of our lack of perception, but because impressions already received project themselves, so to s...
6. CHAPTER IV.It will be readily conceded that in order to treat nervous disease successfully, we must have some special qualifications for our task. We need not only learning, but experience...
4. CHAPTER II.Our life and progress may be aptly compared to the passage of collections of particles through a fine sieve. The particles that will not crumble are inevitably cast out, while t...
2. CHAPTER I.Once there lived a race of men blest with very strong eyesight--so strong that they were unconscious of possessing sight at all, but accepted their marvellous endowment as a mat...
1. Part I. gives a brief history of nervous exhaustion and the modes ofA friend, to whom I read the Introduction, criticised the quotation with which I have concluded it. She objected that I thereby gave too high a place to mere knowledge. I replie...
3. ill. It is said that the second class was larger than the first, andAltogether, in spite of the well-intentioned efforts of the investigators, the state of that tribe with regard to eye-disease was very much worse than it had been while the regu...
8. CHAPTER VI.In individual cases of nerve-trouble, the illness is generally traced to some cause, serious or trivial, real or imaginary, as the case may be. Quite as much harm as good is wro...