This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...mother or both who have been subject to excessive tension or unnatural gratification or use of sexual powers, who present a history of mal-nutrition, or who have led a life of exhausting luxury and social dissipation, or, on the other hand, of mental or physical self-denial to a point of starvation of their best ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...mother or both who have been subject to excessive tension or unnatural gratification or use of sexual powers, who present a history of mal-nutrition, or who have led a life of exhausting luxury and social dissipation, or, on the other hand, of mental or physical self-denial to a point of starvation of their best possibilities of physical or mental development, and the child of such a union develops a case of dementia praecox, I believe it may be a case of inheritance, i. e., it is acquired because of a lack of inherited power to resist the strains and storms of life. These strains and storms of life may consist of too great demands in school life or in business life, of sexual irregularities, either of self-denial or excess, of the exhaustion left from disease or from insufficient care, clothing or nutriment, and even perchance some mortification, disappointment or grief. I remember one case resultant from scarlet fever, another from mortification, another from disappointment, another from fear, another from dissipation, and another from inheritance and scare. This brings us back to the hypothesis at the beginning of this paper that the recognition of the cause of the disease and an early diagnosis offers the sole hope for a successful staying of the malady. Unquestionably the beginning of the trouble is functional to be followed by degeneration unless speedily checked. The history of these cases shows that from the incipiency of life the whole course has been one to develop and foster a non-resistant being, hence the first thing necessary is to remove the patient from the past surroundings and under new environment and hygienic conditions bend every effort to a restoration of mental and physical powers. If the case is in its very incipiency a possible cure...
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