Nervous exhaustion and the diseases induced by it : with observations on the origin and nature of nervous force.

  • Campbell, Hugh Joseph, 1898-
Date:
1873
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Nervous exhaustion and the diseases induced by it : with observations on the origin and nature of nervous force. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

    44/212 (page 32)
    CHAPTER V. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT. As nervous exhaustion is essentially the result of impoverishment of brain and nerve tissue, the dis- ease, when not taking on any distinct set of local symptoms, must be treated on the broad principle of improvement of general nutrition. Indeed, even where attention to local symptoms is imperatively called for, the fact that general nutrition of the whole nerve system is of paramount importance must be steadily kept in view, for until the defec- tive elements are restored to their natural balance, and the molecular and other conditions necessary for healthy performance of function duly established, no permanent benefit will accrue. In the great nervous centres and in the nerves themselves there must be at all times a fair balance between work and nourishment; where this balance has been lost its restoration can be brought about only by concentrating on the faulty tissues all the nutrient and tonic influences which can affect them beneficially. These influences are not to be con- fined to food and medicine alone; they must em- brace the wide field of hygiene, and include all the benefits which can be obtained from cheerful change, exercise without fatigue, air, light, pleasing