Editorial October 2, 1902 Issue

Human sense is much more successful in self-analysis...

Editor

Human sense is much more successful in self-analysis than in self-correction, and a careful and correct diagnosis of disease is often made when there is a most pitiful and discouraging absence of any suggestion respecting an adequate and available remedy. We were reminded of this recently in reading the following lines in the columns of one of our exchanges.

"Thousands of people actually think themselves to death every year by allowing their minds to dwell on morbid subjects.

"The idea that one has some incipient disease in one's system, the thought of financial ruin, that one is getting on in life without improving prospects—any of them or a thousand similar thoughts may carry a healthy man to a premature grave. A melancholy thought that fixes itself upon one's mind needs as much 'doctoring' as physical disease.

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