• ISBN13: 9788121263764
• Binding: Paperback
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• Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
• Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: January 1, 2022
• Pages: 150
• Original Price: INR 290.0
• Language: English
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• Item Weight: 305 grams
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In the brief articles which will make up this series my object will be to present in the shortest, plainest and most practical manner methods which in my experience and that of many others who have been more or less under my influence have seemed to be conducive to increased mental efficiency. It is said that there is no royal road to learning; and while in a sense this is true, it is also true that, in all things even in mind training, there is a right way and a wrong way or rather there is one right way and there are a thousand wrong ways. Now, after trying it seems to me most of the wrong ways, I have found what I believe to be the right way; and these I shall try to expound it to you.

William Richard Cunningham Latson (1866 –1911) was an American physician, occultist, physical culturist and vegetarian. Latson attended the Eclectic Medical College of New York City and obtained his M.D. in 1904. Latson was a skin disease specialist who authored works on diet, medicine and hygiene. His book The Attainment of Efficiency, first published in 1910 was concerned with mental health. It went through eight editions. Latson was a proponent of autointoxication, the belief that disease is the result of the body's inability to evacuate toxic matter. Latson dedicated a book to this subject, Common Disorders with Rational Methods of Treatment in 1904, which described dietary and hygienic methods to eliminate toxins from the body. He was a member of the Advisory Board for the American Bureau of Personal and Vocational Psychology. Latson was associated with the Health-Culture Company and was editor of their magazine Health Culture. Latson was married to Beatrice Cochrane Knountz, they divorced in 1906.