Nerves / by David Fraser-Harris.

  • David Fraser Fraser-Harris
Date:
[1928]
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Credit: Nerves / by David Fraser-Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I HOW THE NERVES WORK Possibly no terms are more frequently used in ordinary conversation than 44 nerves ” and 44 nervousness.” Even the nervous system is alluded to with a degree of familiarity which would betoken a knowledge of its workings very much greater than we have reason to believe the speaker possesses. Owing to the prevailing ignorance about the nervous system, the quack and the charlatan have made much gain out of nerves and nervousness. Before we can understand what nervous¬ ness means, what a nervous person is, and in what an attack of nerves consists, we shall have to ponder a little on what the healthy nervous system is and how it works under normal conditions. The detailed study of the nervous system needs, perhaps, greater skill and patience than that of any other of
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