e application of these methods of preventive discipline.

I was recently consulted by a patient whose nervous system was in a
deplorable state, who had lost almost complete mental control of
herself, and who really presented a pathetic spectacle as she told of
the fears and worries that enthralled her. In an effort to get to the
bottom of this patient's heredity I had a conference with her father,
and I learned that this woman, in her childhood days, had been
constantly humored--allowed to have everything she wanted. She was a
delicate and sensitive little thing and the parents could not bear to
hear her cry, it made her sick, it gave her convulsions, it produced
sleepless nights, it destroyed her appetite, and so she grew up in
this pampered way. The father recognized the greatness of his mistake
and he told me with tears in his eyes how, when the ringing of the
school bell disturbed his little girl baby, he saw the school
directors and had them stop ringing the bell, and he even stopped the
ringing of the church bells. He was an influential citizen and could
even stop the blowing of the whistles if it disturbed his precious
little daughter.

And so this woman has grown up with this nervous system naturally
weakened by heredity and further weakened by "spoiling"; and fortunate
indeed she will be if off and on the most of her life she is not
seeking the advice of a physician in her efforts to gain that
self-control which her parents could have so easily put in her
possession at the time she was three or four years of age, if they had
only spent a few hours then, instead of the many months and years that
subsequently have been devoted to medical attention.

METHODS OF DISCIPLINE

We run into many snags when we undertake to discipline the nervous
baby. The first is that it will sometimes cry so hard that it will get
black in the face and may even have a convulsion; occasionally a small
blood vessel may be ruptured on some part of the body, usually the
face. When you see the little one approaching this point, turn it over
and administer a sound spanking and it will instantly catch its
breath. This will not have to be repeated many times until that
particular difficulty will be largely under control.

It will be discovered when you undertake to break a bad habit in the
case of a spoiled child who is of a nervous temperament, that your
discipline interferes with the child's appetite and nutrition. The
delicate little