e sane mind
the disease-accepting attitude. It will do all that common sense and
applied medical science can do to strengthen the body; then it will take
what life brings in the way of unavoidable disease and weakness and
inability, with an uncringing mind. It will hold the mind's attitude to
serenity and poise and accomplishment within the necessary limits of its
disordered body. It will be master of its dwelling and make the most of
the little the body can give, and force all bearable weakness and pain
to be stepping-stones to endurance and will-strength and cheer. It will
not accept physical limitations as final things. If life must be lived
in a prison-house it will be its own jailer, and fill the rooms with
flowers, music, friends, and happiness.

No nurse is competent to help her patient to overcome any curable
physical weakness, and keep the mind serene in the face of the
incurable, until she herself has learned that the will to health is
capable of transforming disease of body, from disaster, into health of
mind and soul.

The nurse of the future will know the laws of mind as she knows the
course of disease; she will be dedicated to such wise care of existing
disease as will lead to prevention of future disease; and she will be a
sworn, trained ally of the health-accepting mind.

INDEX

Absent-mindedness, 64

Absolutes, 54

Abstract concept, 52
object concepts, 53
quality concepts, 53

Accuracy of perception, 141

Action cannot be separated from feeling, 68

Acts, compulsive, 106

Adaptability, 79
necessity of, 80

Amnesia, 103

Anesthesia, 101

Aphasia, 103

Apperception, 54

Association of ideas, 143

Attention, 79
of interest, 112
of reason and will, 118
root of disease or health attitude, 112

Autosuggestion, 84

Awareness, 15

Bad habits, 91

Beginning of reason, 69

Body and mind, relation of, 40

Borderland disorders, 107

Brain, 33
hind, 43

Censor, 31

Central and peripheral nervous systems in action, 35

Cerebellum, 43

Cerebrum, 43
functions of, 45

Clear thinking, steps to, 140

Compulsive acts, 106
ideas, 103

Concentration, 146

Concepts, 52
abstract, 52
object, 53
quality, 53
concrete, 52

Concrete concepts, 52

Consciousness, 15, 20, 21
definition, 15
flow of, 47
in delirium, 32
in sleep, 31