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6. Mental habits as unifiers 



Purposes and ambitions 



Ideals (examples) 



Thoroughness Concentration ReliabiHty 



Orderhness Perseverance Integrity 



QUESTIONS 



1. In what ways can physical conditions influence mental processes? 



2. In what ways can mental conditions influence physical processes ? 



3. What physical processes in the body have no influence whatever 

 upon the mind ? How can we tell ? 



4. What mental processes have no connection whatever with physical 

 changes ? How can we tell ? 



5. Is it possible to be happy without health ? Is it possible to be of 

 great use without health? What is the evidence? 



6. What is the advantage of patent medicines over special prescrip- 

 tions by a physician ? W'hat are the disadvantages ? 



7. How can we tell that some ideas keep people in better health than 

 others ? 



8. How is it that several persons suffering from different ailments 

 sometimes get help from the same specialist or the same treatment ? 



9. How is it that several people who have the same ailments are 

 sometimes helped by different treatments ? 



10. What kinds of physical habits help to keep one well ? What kinds 

 of mental habits help to keep one well? What kinds of emotional 

 habits help to keep one well? 



11. What kinds of habits can prevent disease altogether? 



12. How can education promote people's health ? 



REFERENCE READINGS 



Williams, J. F. Personal Hygiene Applied, chap, i. The Meaning of 



Health. 

 Hough and Sedgwick. The Human Mechanism, chap, xvi, Introductory 



to Hygiene ; chap, xviii, Hygiene of the Nervous System. 

 Pubhc Health Reprint 164, Mental Hygiene. 



