"Oh! for a booke and a shadie nooke, Eyther indoore or oute; Where I maie reade, all atte my ease Both of the newe and olde: For a jollie goode booke, whereonne to looke Is better to me than golde!" The following books are suitable for laymen, and are most of them very readable. EPILEPSY We know of no book suitable for laymen, NEURASTHENIA AND HYSTERIA "Nervous Disorders of Men" (Kegan Paul) Hollander. "Nervous Disorders of Women" (Kegan Paul) Hollander. "National Degeneration" (Cornish, Birmingham) D.F. Harris. "Hysteria and Neurasthenia" J.M. Clarke. "The Management of a Nerve Patient" Schofield. "Confessions of a Neurasthenic" (F.A. Davis Co., Philadelphia) Marrs. "Conquest of Nerves" (Macmillan) Courtney. GENERAL: INDIGESTION "Indigestion" Herschell. DIETING "Dietetics" (Jack's People's Books) A. Bryce. "Diet in Dyspepsia" Tibbles. "Cookery for Common Ailments" Brown. CONSTIPATION "Constipation" Bigg. HYGIENE "Laws of Life and Health" A. Bryce. "Health" M.M. Burgess. INSOMNIA "Sleep and Sleeplessness" H.A. Bruce. "The Meaning of Dreams" I.H. Coriat. IMAGINATION "Psychology in Daily Life" Seashore. "Hygiene of the Mind" T.S. Clouston. SUGGESTION "Hypnotism and Suggestion" Hollander. "How to Treat by Suggestion" Ash. "Hypnotism and Self-Education" (Jack's People's Books) Hutchinson. PATENT MEDICINES "Patent Foods and Patent Medicines" (Bale & Davidson) Hutchinson. See Chapter XX for B.M.A. Books. THE CHILD "Our Baby" R.D. Clark. "Abnormal Children" (Kegan Paul) Hollander. "The Baby" (Jack's People's Books) Anonymous. "Training the Child" (Jack's People's Books) Spiller. PUBERTY "Youth and Sex" (Jack's People's Books) Scharlieb and Sibley. "Woman in Childhood, Wifehood, and Motherhood" M.S. Cohen. "The Adolescent Period" Starr. "Physiology" (Home Univ. Library) McKendrick. "Human Physiology" Leonard Hill. HEREDITY AND CHARACTER "Evolution" (Home Univ. Library) Thomson and Geddes. "Heredity in the Light of Recent Research" (Cam. Univ. Press) Doncaster. "The Psychology of Insanity" (Cam. Univ. Press) Bernard Hart. MARRIAGE "On Conjugal Happiness" R.G.S. Krohn "Race Culture and Race Suicide" R.R. Rentoul. * * * * * INDEX ABORTIVES, Use of, as cause of epilepsy, 22 Age-incidence in epilepsy, 17, 18 Air, Fresh, Importance of, 73 Alcohol, The question of, 64 Alcoholic excess in relation to epilepsy, 16, 21-23 ---- ---- neurasthenia, 31 Amyl Nitrite, to check the aura in epilepsy, 26 Analyses of proprietary preparations for children, 13 ---- ---- purgative medicines, 62 ---- of secret remedies, British Medical Association, 13, 62, 92 Arson as manifestation of mental epilepsy, 10 Aspirin for post-epileptic headache, 29 Aura, The, 2, 3, 25 ----, ----, in Jacksonian epilepsy, 8 ----, Treatment of the, 25, 26 Auto-intoxication, 68 Auto-suggestion, Value of, 80, 83