Letters are left unopened partly from want of will, partly from a senseless dread lest they contain bad news.

At night the patient tosses on his bed possessed by all the cares which blacken with darkness.

Headache is common, loss of memory is distressing, and in severe cases it is wider and deeper than mere inattention can explain.

There is often the torture of acute hearing, or an inability to suppress attention; the hater of clocks and crowing cocks is a neurasthenic." The disease is especially common in the women players of the social game, and its unhappy victims too often seek relief from the nervous irritability which is a common early symptom in still greater nervous excitement.
It is a sad commentary on our civilization that one of the means of treatment for these persons which has been found efficacious is to supply them with some restful household occupation such as knitting or plain sewing, and there are institutions which combine refuge from social activities, often called duties, with simple occupation.
FOOTNOTE: [1] By structure as used in this wide sense, there must be understood not merely the anatomical structure, which is revealed by the dissecting knife and microscope, but molecular structure, or the manner in which elements are arranged to form the molecule, as well..