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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    ical condition, and perhaps too confident of his own mental balance. But, after all, my dictum does not refer to invalids alone; it applies to everybody; to us physicians equally as to our patients, to edu- cators of all kinds as well as to their pupils. When one considers the life of the mind, it becomes no longer possible to divide human- ity into two classes, the sick and the well. Neurasthenia, of which one hears so much nowadays, is not a disease that attacks us like rheumatism or tuberculosis; it is the psychic form of human weakness that we owe to our natural and hereditary defects, to our badly directed education, to the vicious influences which act upon us during our entire physical and mental development. It is not a weak- ness of nerves such as the word neuras- thenia' ' implies; it is, above all, mental de- bility, and psychasthenia is the word to express it. When hereditary and constitutional in- fluences seem to predominate, the debility is accounted illness; it appears essentially phys- ical because it manifests itself by functional troubles, by intellectual blemishes—the fore- [4]