Temper and Nerves.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10777, 27 May 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

Temper and Nerves.

- v' At the Nursing and Midwifery Conference in London recently, Dr Edwin Ash dealt with the subject of the care of '"•-the nervous. He said that unhealthy .nervous, irritability was responsible for many of the squabbles whicn disturbed domestic and ended so frequent- . ly in the police courts for a certain class, and in the divorce courts for some . other folk. There were thousands of

cases of this" kind, the proper place for which was the consulting-room of the nerve specialist rather than the public courts. In many instances "bad temper" was really a disease, as also •ivere such conditions as sulkiness, sudden rudeness, abruptness of manner, land so forth. If this were more generally. understood people would be more "inclined to settle their differences amicably than they often were. If a husband was persistently unreasonable, or i.wife irritable beyond endurance, the aggrieved party might certainly advise the offending one to see someone about his or her "nerves" before to more drastic measures.