INFLUENCE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PREVENTING DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. BY ROBERT BRUDENELL CARTER, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, AND "Education, in the most extensive sense of the word, may comprehend every preparation that is made in our youth for the sequel of our lives: and in this sense I use it." J. E. ADLARD, PRINTER, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE. PALEY. PREFACE. THE composition of a treatise of design similar to the present has long been a cherished idea with the Author; and was suggested to him by his opportunities of observing the frequent connection between faulty education and nervous or mental disorders. In these days of anxiety and competition, such disorders are greatly upon the increase; and it is the chief object of the following pages to show the existence, and the application, of certain moral and intellectual sanitary laws, which cannot be transgressed with impunity. These are, perhaps, even more important than the physical sanitary laws, towards which, of late years, the attention of the public has been so earnestly directed. As originally planned, the volume was intended to contain, though in a more expanded form, only the third or concluding part of the present treatise; but it has |