THE MODERN MALADY. THE MODERN MALADY; Or, Sufferers from “Nerves.” BY CYRIL BENNETT, AUTHOR OF “THE MASSAGE CASE,” ETC. _WITH A PREFACE_ BY HERBERT TIBBITS, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., FOUNDER OF THE WEST END HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, ETC. “Absence of knowledge has for its inevitable fruit this result; that the right exercise of our faculties leads, at first, not to true, but to false conclusions. The only means whereby our progress in knowledge can be made harmonious is in frankly recognising and accepting this law of our life.”--JAMES HINTON. LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD. 1890. [_All rights reserved._] PREFACE. BY DR. TIBBITS. I have been requested to write a Preface to the “Modern Malady,” and I have pleasure in doing so, as it seems to me that the author, with whose views I am in general agreement, has adequately and successfully carried out a work, not over easy, but certainly wanted--_i.e._, an introduction to public consideration, from a non-medical point of view, of a condition of ill-health which is increasingly prevalent in all ranks of society; which is as common in the slums of the East End as in the mansions of the West; which incapacitates innumerable people (both men and women) from the efficient discharge of the duties, and from the proper enjoyment of the pleasures, of life; which undoubtedly often owes its origin to injudicious medication; which is quite capable of cure in certain ways which are not those generally adopted; and which is still more capable of prevention.