How to Conquer Your Handicaps

by Marie Beynon Ray

A handicap is part of the impedimenta of every human being. It may be anything from the wrong shade of hair to two legs off at the hip, from an embarrassing habit of blushing to a full-blown neurosis. Whatever it is, our first effort should be to get rid of it, our second to adjust to it. Never was there such a time for getting rid of a disability, physical or psychological, as today. Not for nothing are we the most scientifically gifted generation who has ever inhabited the earth. We have invented many sciences for the preservation of man -- which is fortunate, considering the number we've invented for his destruction. Today we are able to cure, to save and to repair the bodies and minds of men beyond belief. ... It is the purpose of this book to bring these recent scientific discoveries out into the open, to dig them out of the medical journals and put them before the public in simple, nontechnical language, to beard the scientist in his laboratory, the surgeon in his operating room, the doctor in his hospital, the psychologist in this office, and persuade them to tell us what is new in their world, what they can do to rid us of our handicaps and, failing that, how we can use them as springboards to success

336 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1948