A System of physiologic therapeutics v.8, 1903, Volume 8P. Blakiston's, 1903 |
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Page 8 - A System of Physiologic Therapeutics. A practical Exposition of the Methods, Other than Drug-Giving, Useful in the Prevention of Disease and in the Treatment of the Sick. Edited by Solomon Solis Cohen, AM, MD, Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics in the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Lecturer on Clinical Medicine at Jefferson Medical College; Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, etc.
Page 316 - The daily ablutions of an infant are no more natural nor necessary than would be the process of taking a fish out of water every day and covering it with dirt in order to make it thrive more vigorously in its own element. "Cleanliness is next to godliness...
Page 315 - You say a boil is painful; but that is impossible, for matter without mind is not painful. The boil simply manifests, through inflammation and swelling, a belief in pain, and this belief is called a boil.
Page 315 - When the sick recover by the use of drugs, it is the law of a general belief, culminating in individual faith, which heals; and according to this faith will the effect be.
Page 91 - ... may, and this goes without saying, produce general ill-health, and among the symptoms present we always find some nervous symptoms, but these are never the symptoms of neurasthenia. Grave visceral disease is, of course, associated with general bodily weakness. Serious local or general disease weakens the entire organism, and with it the nervous system, and that various signs of nervous weakness should be present under such conditions is not surprising. I have applied to this state, however, the...
Page 315 - Show that it is not inherited; that inflammation, tubercles, hemorrhage, and decomposition are beliefs, images of mortal thought superimposed upon the body; that they are not the truth of man; that they should be treated as error and put out of thought. Then these ills will disappear.
Page 314 - Science, pleadmg 30 and you will find that it alleviates the symptoms of every disease. If you succeed in wholly removing the fear, , your patient is healed.
Page 104 - ... artificial teeth. Her symptoms persisting, she transferred her delusive ideas to her eyes, and then began making the round of the oculists. Glasses after glasses were prescribed, but all with a similar negative result. Next she became convinced that it was her stomach which was diseased; medicines, lavage, and diet after diet were tried without effect. When seen by me, mental degeneration had so far advanced as to necessitate commitment to an asylum. On the whole, however, it is quite infrequent...
Page 315 - To prevent disease or to cure it mentally, let Spirit destroy this dream of sense. If you wish to heal by argument, find the type of the ailment, get its name, and array your mental plea against the physical. Argue with the patient (mentally, not audibly) that he has no disease, and conform the argument to the evidence.
Page 9 - A SYSTEM OF PHYSIOLOGIC THERAPEUTICS. A Practical Exposition of the Methods, Other than Drug-Giving, Useful in the Prevention of Disease and in the Treatment of the Sick. — Edited by Solomon Solis Cohen, AM, MD, Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics in the Philadelphia Polyclinic ; Lecturer on Clinical Medicine at Jefferson Medical College ; Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, etc.