Nerve Waste

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Excerpt from Nerve Waste: Practical Information Concerning Nervous Impairment and Nervous Exhaustion The true scope as well as the powers and the limitations of the medical man are often imperfectly understood; the various functions of the physician - cure, alleviation, prevention, teaching - are better defined by the Latin cura, care, than by its derivative, cure, in its modern sense. To care for the health of the whole community is a far wider field of usefulness than to cure the sick individuals in it. In his work of curing the physician is too often viewed as a kind of sorcerer, and he is invoked to use the mysterious chemical substances which he is supposed to have, or which he ought to have; many persons imagine that if they could get hold of the doctor's prescription-book, they could do without the doctor. There are drugs whose action is so sure, and surgical and other procedures whose results are so radical, that they appear almost magical, but, in the large proportion of cases, the physician is far from being a magician, and has no absolute power over disease. He is simply one learned in the science, and experienced in the management of sickness; he is one factor, the chief of all the forces operating for life and against death; the patient, his surroundings, his friends - sometimes his ancestors - influence the result for good or for evil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.