Produced by Don Kostuch [Transcriber's Notes] Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred in the original book. This book is derived from a copy on the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924012175505 Obvious spelling or typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling of names and inventive and alternative spelling is left as printed. Extended quotations and citations are indented such as reports, letters and interviews. [End Transcriber's Notes] HEALTH THROUGH WILL POWER BY JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., Etc. MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY; PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY AT CATHEDRAL COLLEGE; LECTURER ON PSYCHOLOGY, MARYWOOD COLLEGE, ETC. BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1919 _Copyright, 1919,_ By Little, Brown, and Company. _All rights reserve_ Published, November, 1919 _Norwood Press_ Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. _To_ J. H. W. EX ANIMO ET CORDE J. J. W. {vii} PREFACE A French surgeon to whom the remark was made in the third year of the War that France was losing an immense number of men replied: "Yes, we are losing enormously, but for every man that we lose we are making two men." What he meant, of course, was that the War was bringing out the latent powers of men to such an extent that every one of those who were left now counted for two. The expression is much more than a mere figure of speech. It is quite literally true that a man who has had the profound experience of a war like this becomes capable of doing ever so much more than he could before. He has discovered his own power. He has tapped layers of energy that he did not know he possessed. Above all, he has learned that his will is capable of enabling him to do things that he would have hesitated about and probably thought quite impossible before this revelation of himself to himself had been made. {viii} In a word, the War has proved a revival of appreciation of the place of the human will in life. Marshal Foch, the greatest character of the War, did not hesitate even to declare that "A battle is the struggle of two wills. It is never lost until defeat is accepted. They only are vanquished who confess themselves to be."