It is almost needless to add that I am oppressed with a sense of my own incapacity for the task which I have here undertaken. But the most ignorant may teach something to the most learned, if he go through life by a different path. My only hope is that, in dealing with a subject about which so little is known, even my observations—conscientious as they are, however faulty—may be of some slight use to the community to which I owe so much.
In preparing this work for the press, I have had the advantage of Mr. Horace Hutchinson’s kind and generous assistance.
C. B.
CONTENTS.
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| [PART I.] Our Nerves and their Ill-Treatment. | ||
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| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| [I.] | INTRODUCTION | [23] |
| [II.] | A THIEF IN THE NIGHT | [37] |
| [III.] | INEFFECTUAL TREATMENT | [47] |
| [IV.] | ERRONEOUS NOTIONS | [70] |
| [V.] | OBSERVATION | [85] |
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| [PART II.] The Causes of Neurasthenia. | ||
| [VI.] | INTRODUCTION | [101] |
| [VII.] | HEREDITY | [104] |
| [VIII.] | IMPERFECTIONS OF OUR SOCIAL SYSTEM | [121] |
| [IX.] | AN IMPERFECT SYSTEM OF EDUCATION | [142] |
| [X.] | SECONDARY CAUSES OF NERVE-DETERIORATION | [161] |