To sum up, the physician may confidently prescribe work when, by investigating the history of any particular case, he has satisfied himself that such occupation will be likely successfully and profitably to distract the patient’s mind from his worries. But the prescription of work for the patient must be regarded as a sequel to, not as a substitute for, the performance of work by the doctor. FOOTNOTES: [24] Such, for example, as those set forth in the series of articles in Vol. VIII, of Sir Clifford Allbutt’s _System of Medicine_, 1899, pp. 88-233. [25] The part played by bodily disease in the causation of mental disturbance has been concisely summarised by Sir G. H. Savage in the introductory chapter on Mental Disease in Vol. VIII, of Allbutt’s _System of Medicine_, pp. 191-195. [26] Or in some mild cases, to encourage him to wish to remain an invalid under such pleasant conditions. [27] In his careful studies of these conditions, C. S. Myers has called attention to the mistaken notion of regarding these troubles as “fundamentally due to disordered volition,” _Lancet_, Sept. 9th, 1916, p. 467. [28] This explanation of the reasons for the use of isolation is taken from Mohr’s article in Lewandowsky’s _Handbuch der Neurologie_. [29] As Sir Clifford Allbutt has pointed out (_op. cit._, p. 158). [30] _The Psychoneuroses and their Treatment by Psychotherapy_, translated from the French by Jelliffe, 2nd Edition, 1913, p. 311. [31] _Op. cit._, p. 315. [32] Feb. 13th, 1915 (p. 316); Jan. 8th, 1916 (p. 65); Mar. 18th, 1916 (p. 608); and Sept. 9th, 1916 (p. 461). [33] _Op. cit._, p. 69. [34] _Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift_, June 15th, 1915, p. 335. [35] Déjerine and Gauckler, _op. cit._, p. 283. [36] _Op. cit._, pp. 302-3. CHAPTER III. Psychological Analysis and Re-education.