The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown.

  • Brown, Haydn, 1864-1936.
Date:
[1915]
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Credit: The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reasoning should make specialists in eye¬ sight deficiencies hesitate before blaming the eyes alone for nervous and mental disorders ; it would be more correct to consider them as only one indication of mental and physical asymmetry in practically every case. One very often studies instances of correction of eye-strain failing to cure neurasthenia ; that is simply because the eye-strain was not the only abnormality present. I have never yet found spontaneous or congenital asymmetry in eyesight without being able to detect asymmetry elsewhere. The correlation between physical feature and thought direction may be clearly studied when severe and sustained worry enters upon the scene, for this will have the effect of accentuating defects in both brain and body. Certain men returning to England after the historical Mons retreat, for instance, I found to have accentuated facial asym¬ metry, which diminished after rest and suitable treatment, but which was declared by friends to have always been present to a slighter degree. I may give another instance, in a lady who twenty-two years
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