EPILEPSY, HYSTERIA, AND NEURASTHENIA
THEIR CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, & TREATMENT
WEBMASTER'S NOTE: This work is presented for historical interest and subject background only. Many of the conclusions, attitudes, and treatments discussed here are those of an "expert" of another era, many of which have been overturned by science or are not acceptable in today's world.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Oh! for a booke and a shadie nooke,
Eyther indoore or oute;
Where I maie reade, all atte my ease
Both of the newe and olde:
For a jollie goode booke, whereonne to looke
Is better to me than golde!"
The following books are suitable for laymen, and are most of them very readable.
EPILEPSY
We know of no book suitable for laymen,
NEURASTHENIA AND HYSTERIA
"Nervous Disorders of Men
" (Kegan Paul) Hollander.
"Nervous Disorders of Women
" (Kegan Paul) Hollander.
"National Degeneration
" (Cornish, Birmingham) D.F. Harris.
"Hysteria and Neurasthenia
" J.M. Clarke.
"The Management Of A Nerve Patient
" Schofield.
"Confessions of a Neurasthenic" (F.A. Davis Co., Philadelphia) Marrs.
"The Conquest of Nerves
" (Macmillan) Courtney.
GENERAL:
INDIGESTION
"Indigestion
" Herschell.
DIETING
"Dietetics" (Jack's People's Books) A. Bryce.
"Diet in Dyspepsia" Tibbles.
"Cookery for Common Ailments" Brown.
[pg 143]CONSTIPATION
"Constipation" Bigg.
HYGIENE
"Laws of Life and Health" A. Bryce.
"Health" M.M. Burgess.
INSOMNIA
"Sleep and Sleeplessness" H.A. Bruce.
"The Meaning of Dreams" I.H. Coriat.
IMAGINATION
"Psychology in Daily Life" Seashore.
"Hygiene of the Mind" T.S. Clouston.
SUGGESTION
"Hypnotism and Suggestion" Hollander.
"How to Treat by Suggestion" Ash.
"Hypnotism and Self-Education" (Jack's People's Books) Hutchinson.
PATENT MEDICINES
"Patent Foods and Patent Medicines" (Bale & Davidson) Hutchinson.
See Chapter XX for B.M.A. Books.
THE CHILD
"Our Baby" R.D. Clark.
"Abnormal Children" (Kegan Paul) Hollander.
"The Baby" (Jack's People's Books) Anonymous.
"Training the Child" (Jack's People's Books) Spiller.
PUBERTY
"Youth and Sex" (Jack's People's Books) Scharlieb and Sibley.
"Woman in Childhood, Wifehood, and Motherhood" M.S. Cohen.
"The Adolescent Period" Starr.
"Physiology" (Home Univ. Library) McKendrick.
"Human Physiology" Leonard Hill.
[pg 144]HEREDITY AND CHARACTER
"Evolution" (Home Univ. Library) Thomson and Geddes.
"Heredity in the Light of Recent Research" (Cam. Univ. Press) Doncaster.
"The Psychology of Insanity" (Cam. Univ. Press) Bernard Hart.
MARRIAGE
"On Conjugal Happiness" R.G.S. Krohn
"Race Culture and Race Suicide" R.R. Rentoul.
