The hygiene of mind / by T.S. Clouston.

  • Clouston, T. S. (Thomas Smith), 1840-1915.
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: The hygiene of mind / by T.S. Clouston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PACK teaching the care of children—Seventh Characteristic is a Com¬ bination of Frankness and Reserve—Kipling’s opinion—Certain matters are vague, awful, and not to be spoken about—Eighth Characteristic is its peculiar Humour—Pleasure and joy longed for—Ninth Characteristic, Imitation—A most educative instinct —Importance of teaching to use the senses rightly—Observation —Social Instincts in Children—Enormous importance of their right cultivation—Cruelty of boys—unevolved barbarism—Feed¬ ing—Air—Home v. Boarding School—Rate of growth from 7 to 15—Greater tenderness of girls’ constitutions among educated and city classes—Discipline—Restriction—Work—Punctuality— Rule—Order—Obedience—All should be formed into habits of life—Religion—Its place during the school age—Modes of developing it—Manners—This is the time for their teaching— Should be a part of school education—Risks of the period— Overpressure—“ Hammered till he was nearly an idiot.” Backwardness, what it means—How to treat it—Is it postpone¬ ment of faculty or incurable incapacity of brain ?—It imitates laziness and moral perversity—Special schools for backward children—Physical signs—“ Stigmata of degeneration.” Games: Their use and abuse. Beer for boys to be utterly condemned—Animal foods, moder¬ ation in use of—Sleep at the school age, 9J hours. CHAPTER XII Adolescence. Between 15 and 25 . . . .154 Adolescence the most important age of life in its relation to hygiene of mind—Differences in brain and mental life at different periods—Prevailing activities different—A new chapter is opened in life, physiologically and mentally—Sex differences accompanied by differences in every organ and function especially in the brain—Difference in mental directions in man and woman—Heredity then most marked in its higher effects— Especially important in the woman—Principles of woman's education hitherto largely unphysiological—Duty of the medical profession as priests of the body—Nature’s energies strictly limited—To press one function is to steal from another—Health and ignorance v. delicacy and learning—Former American ideals of young women—Penalties to be paid—Later years of adolescence the most important—Childish things then put away —Literature appreciated, life serious—Poetry a passion—Authors read by the different ages—University first v. fifth year’s man— Demeanour of 15 and 24 with women—Emotional nature and love—Character formed—Female adolescence and the novelists