It is thought with the friction of worry which injures, and unless we can secure an absence of this, it is vain to hope for help by the method I am describing.

The man harassed by business anxieties, the woman with morbidly-developed or ungoverned maternal instincts, will only illustrate the causes of failure.

Perhaps in all dubious cases Dr.Playfair's rule is not a bad one, to consider, and to let the patient consider, this mode of treatment as a hopeful experiment, which may have to be abandoned, and which is valueless without the cordial and submissive assistance of the patient.
The muscular system in many of such patients--I mean in ever-weary, thin and thin-blooded persons--is doing its work with constant difficulty.

As a result, fatigue comes early, is extreme, and lasts long.

The demand for nutritive aid is ahead of the supply, or else the supply is incompetent as to quality, and before the tissues are rebuilded a new demand is made, so that the materials of disintegration accumulate, and do this the more easily because the eliminative organs share in the general defects.