INTRODUCTORY

THE PHYSICIAN

CONVALESCENCE

PAIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

THE MORAL MANAGEMENT OF SICK OR INVALID CHILDREN

NERVOUSNESS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON CHARACTER

OUT-DOOR AND CAMP-LIFE FOR WOMEN



INTRODUCTORY.


The essays which compose this volume deal chiefly with a variety of
subjects to which every physician must have given more or less thought.
Some of them touch on matters concerning the mutual relation of
physician and patient, but are meant to interest and instruct the laity
rather than the medical attendant. The larger number have from their
nature a closer relation to the needs of women than of men.

It has been my fate of late years to have in my medical care very many
women who, from one or another cause, were what is called nervous. Few
of them were so happily constituted as to need from me neither counsel