Into their school life we need not follow the children. Happily the time is past when schoolmasters and schoolmistresses were incapable of understanding their charges, and confounded nervous exhaustion with stupidity or timidity with incapacity. And so we come back to the point from which we started: The nervous infant, restless, wriggling, and constantly crying! The nervous child, unstable, suggestible, passionate, and full of nameless fears! The nervous schoolboy or schoolgirl prone to self-analysis, subject-conscious, and easily exhausted! And how many and how various are the manifestations of this temperament! Refusal of food, refusal of sleep, negativism, irritability, and violent fits of temper, vomiting, diarrhoea, morbid flushing and blushing, habit spasms, phobias--all controlled not by reproof or by medicine, but by good management and a clear understanding of their nature. The hygiene of the child's mind is as important as the hygiene of his body, and both are studies proper for the doctor. Neuropathy and an unsound, nervous organisation are often enough legacies from the nervous disorders of childhood. INDEX Abdomen, prominent Abdominal symptoms of neurosis Accent, local, facility with which acquired Acetone, in breath and urine during cyclic vomiting Acidosis, accompanying cyclic vomiting Action, imitativeness of liberty of, in early childhood Activities in the nursery not to be restrained without intervention of grown-up people wonderful nature of Adenoid vegetations, night-terrors aggravated by removal of, in treatment of enuresis Adolescence, and education on sexual matters Adults, child in relation to the society of Æsthetic sense, in early childhood Affection, in the child Air hunger, in cyclic vomiting Air swallowing, habitual action of Albuminuria, associated with faulty posture cause of, in neuropaths Allimentary disturbances, symptom of Alkali, in treatment of cyclic vomiting Anæmia, of neuropaths Anorexia nervosa A case illustrating Apnoea, fatal cases of following burst of crying twitching of facial muscles in Appetite, emotional states affecting loss of, case illustrating causes and characteristics treatment means of stimulating nature of the sensation of Apprehension, causes of growth of neuroses in atmosphere of Artificial feeding Aspirin Asthma, treatment of Attention, child's love of attracting examples of Authority, delight in defying over-exercise of, by parents, results of Babies. _See_ Newborn Baby Backward development signs of "Bad form" Bad habits Bath, baby's first experience of Bed, dislike of how overcome efforts to resist preparation for Bedroom, airing and temperature of Bedtime management at Bed wetting. _See_ Enuresis Behaviour. _See_ Conduct Bladder, hydrostatic distension of, for enuresis Boarding-schools, object of