Nerve Control and How to Gain It

by H. Addington Bruce

Excerpt from Nerve Control and How to Gain It

Selection, expansion, and rearrangement have been made with reference particularly to the prevention, as well as the cure, of the functional nervous troubles so common to day. No book, it should be clearly under stood, can be of more than incidental help to the victim of an organic nervous disease. His chief reliance must always be on the skill of his physician. So, too, as is repeat edly insisted in subsequent -pages, many functionally nervous patients are so condi tioned that expert treatment of a special kind is imperatively needed by them. But of functional nervousness in general it may be said with assurance that much can be done in the way' of self-cure. It is mainly a question of learning to think healthfully and learning to live healthfully. The nervous dyspeptic, the nervous insomniac, all the great army of the nervously run down, are essentially victims of wrong modes of thinking and living. If they can be induced to think and live aright, their ills fall from them.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1918

About the author

Henry Addington Bayley Bruce (1874–1959) was an American journalist and author, born in Toronto, Canada, and educated at Upper Canada College and Trinity College, Toronto. He was for a time on the Toronto Week, then came to the United States, was employed by the American Press Association between 1897 and 1903, and afterward contributed to many periodicals, notably The Outlook. In 1916 he resigned as staff contributor to The Outlook. In 1915 he became psychological adviser to the Associated Newspapers. Addington Bruce also wrote books. His most successful work was in American history and in popularizing modern psychology and psychical research.
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