Self-control and how to secure it = (L'éducation de soi-même) / by Paul Dubois ; Authorized translation by Harry Hutcheson Boyd.

  • Paul Charles Dubois
Date:
1909
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Credit: Self-control and how to secure it = (L'éducation de soi-même) / by Paul Dubois ; Authorized translation by Harry Hutcheson Boyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    '' Man is the only animal who does not know how to live, I said one day after listening to the grievances of my patients. It was not their suffering that called forth this irrev- erent dictum—irony would have been hateful —it was the frequent assurance that they were the authors of their own misfortunes; and not always they alone, but their relatives and their fellow men. Far be it from me to reproach those who suffer; by what right shall we judge others? But, on examining the circumstances sur- rounding these unfortunates, I have often said to myself: '' All this need not have been and should no longer be possible.'' A col- league to whom I submitted these reflections ■—commonplace by reason of being old and true—subscribed to my opinion, but immedi- ately hinted that my ideas applied only to those nervous patients who since the discov- ery of neurasthenia crowd the physician's office. There was a shade of disdain in the smile of my interlocutor, himself in fine phys- [3]