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The Project Gutenberg E-text of Nerves and Common Sense

The Project Gutenberg E-text of Nerves and Common Sense

by Annie Payson Call

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Author
Call, Annie Payson, 1853-1940
Title
Nerves and Common Sense
Credits
Produced by Steve Solomon. HTML version by Al Haines.
Language
English
LoC Class
RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
Subject
Mental health
Category
Text
eBook-No.
4339
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4339
Release Date
August 1, 2003
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.NERVES AND COMMON SENSE — BY
  2. 2.ANNIE PAYSON CALL — Author of "Power Through Repose," "As a Matter of Course," "The Freedom of Life," etc.
  3. 3.CONTENTS — CHAPTER I — Habit and Nervous Strain — CHAPTER II — How Women can keep from being Nervous — CHAPTER III — "You Have no Idea how I am Rushed" — CHAPTER IV — Why does Mrs. Smith get on My Nerves? — CHAPTER V — The Trying Member of the Family — CHAPTER VI — Irritable Husbands — CHAPTER VII — Quiet vs. Chronic Excitement — CHAPTER VIII — The Tired Emphasis — CHAPTER IX — How to be Ill and get Well — CHAPTER X — Is Physical Culture good for Girls? — CHAPTER XI — Working Restfully — CHAPTER XII — Imaginary Vacations — CHAPTER XIII — The Woman at the Next Desk — CHAPTER XIV — Telephones and Telephoning — CHAPTER XV — Don't Talk — CHAPTER XVI — "Why Fuss so Much About What I Eat?" — CHAPTER XVII — Take Care of Your Stomach — CHAPTER XVIII — About Faces — CHAPTER XIX — About Voices — CHAPTER XX — About Frights — CHAPTER XXI — Contrariness — CHAPTER XXII — How to Sew Easily — CHAPTER XXIII — Do not Hurry — CHAPTER XXIV — The Care of an Invalid — CHAPTER XXV — The Habit of Illness — CHAPTER XXVI — What is It that Makes Me so Nervous? — CHAPTER XXVII — Positive and Negative Effort — CHAPTER XXVIII — Human Dust — CHAPTER XXIX — Plain Every-day Common Sense — CHAPTER XXX — A Summing Up

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