THE NERVOUS CHILD

PUBLISHED BY THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF

HENRY FROWDE, HODDER & STOUGHTON

17 WARWICK SQUARE, LONDON, E.C. 4

THE

NERVOUS CHILD

BY

HECTOR CHARLES CAMERON

M.A., M.D.(Cantab.), F.R.C.P.(Lond.)

PHYSICIAN TO GUY'S HOSPITAL AND PHYSICIAN IN CHARGE OF

THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT, GUY'S HOSPITAL

LONDON

HENRY FROWDE HODDER & STOUGHTON

Oxford University Press Warwick Square, E.C.

1920

First Edition 1919

Second Impression 1930

Printed in Great Britain

By Morrison & Gibb Ltd., Edinburgh

PREFACE

To-day on all sides we hear of the extreme importance of PreventiveMedicine and the great future which lies before us in this aspect ofour work. If so, it follows that the study of infancy and childhoodmust rise into corresponding prominence. More and more a considerablepart of the Profession must busy itself in nurseries and in schools,seeking to apply there the teachings of Psychology, Physiology,Heredity, and Hygiene. To work of this kind, in some of its aspects,this book may serve as an introduction. It deals with the influenceswhich mould the mentality of the child and shape his conduct. Extremesusceptibility to these influences is the mark of the nervous child.

I have to thank the Editors of The Practitioner and of The Child,respectively, for permission to reprint the chapters which deal with"Enuresis" and "The Nervous Child in Sickness." To Dr. F.H. Dodd Ishould also like to offer thanks for helpful suggestions.

H.C.C.

March 1919.

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