PROGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

Abstract

protection and support. There seems to be a family tendency chiefly on the maternal side and the possibility of imitative derivation should not be lost sight of. In the opinion of the authors the physical symptoms and the disturbance of physiological processes are secondary to and precipitated by an emotional discharge. This probably accounts for the fact that a large number of remeclies may be successful tor a time, but cure is alleged only to result if and when the patient ever grows up on his emotional side.