Article March 16, 1899 Issue

Bread-Pill Treatment

Dr. Newcomb says in the Sunday Post-Dispatch that many cases of neurasthenia are treated at the public dispensaries. "The usual treatment is bread pills and strong talk." This seems another way of saying that there is nothing the matter with them; that the malady is in the imagination, or, slangily put, "it's all in your eye." If this is true of neurasthenia, may it not be of other terrors? What do the doctors say?

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