Twenty dialogues between patient and doctor explore nervosity and its symptoms as well as proposed treatments. In the preface Scholz, a neurologist who at the time also served as the director of a provincial lunatic asylum, states his belief that "the psychological has a significantly bigger part than the physical in the illness and thus also in the recovery from it". The psychological treatment in his opinion is tantamount to "informing the mind, relieving the soul and developing the will", in an early psychosomatic approach. (A Karger "Publishing Highlights 1890–2015" title)