Health and suggestion : the dialectics of the mind / by Ernst von Feudhtersleben ; translated and edited by Ludwig Lewisohn.

  • Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
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1919, ©1910
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Credit: Health and suggestion : the dialectics of the mind / by Ernst von Feudhtersleben ; translated and edited by Ludwig Lewisohn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quent as any other kind, especially in those great cities whose’ darkening atmosphere seems to consist of the passions, the anxieties, and the thoughts of their inhabitants. A figure such as Goethe’s Werther may gain from us the sympathy due to misfortune and disease, but suicidal tendencies are the inher- itance of natures too sensitive, souls too gentle, who cannot hold their own against the harshness of life’s realities. Stronger minds are not unassailed, and many an active physician has known periods during which only the most self-sacrificing devotion to his duties was able to sunder the clouds that threatened to obscure his moral and physical well-being. In such fateful days his activity saves him even from those dangers to which itself has given rise. Thus the wounds which duty inflicts upon us always hold the balm of their own healing. It is instructive to quote Goethe at this point. He did not feel the impetus that comes from the fulfillment of professional [ 34]