Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Prevention of Disease, Vol. 2 of 2: Translated From the German
The prevention of diseases of the nervous system is the more important because of the ever increasing number of cases of nervous disease at the present day. Unfortunately our ability to prevent these diseases is very slight when compared with their importance. The physician in treat ing a nervous disease needs to know more than in treating any other disease about the patient's social position, his occupation and his life, if benefit is to follow. To prevent a nervous disease the physician must be in a position which enables him to alter or modify all these conditions; but to what mortal man is it granted to do this! The physician's task of curing a nervous disease is often a very difficult and thankless one, because the best will itself is often frustrated by existing circumstances, and this 1s true even in a greater measure in connexion with the preven tion of nervous disease.
I am conscious of the difficulty. Of the task before me, of attempting to describe the way in which nervous diseases may be prevented, this difficulty, which arises partly from the fact which I stated above, and partly because to write about the real prophylaxis of nervous disease would compel me to write a history of the present day and that no one desires me to do.
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