Excerpt from Nervous Disorders of Men: The Modern Psychological Conception of Their Causes, Effects, and Rational Treatment<br><br>This book treats of the numerous nervous illnesses of men, in which the mental factor plays a large part, and which are known as functional disorders, to distinguish them from organic diseases. Until recently patients suffering from these disorders were not taken seriously, and their treatment is still left largely to men outside the profession. These are the patients who are attracted by patent medicine advertisements and by the numerous lay practitioners specialising in one form of treatment: in electricity, massage, physical exercise, diet treatment, or other specific; or who have faith in Christian Science, Higher Thought, and other cults, and seek the treat ment of mental healers.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.