A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: Rest mental, therapeutics suggestionSolomon Solis-Cohen P. Blakiston's, 1904 - Massage therapy |
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Page 314 - 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 313 - 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 313 - 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 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 313 - If the case to be mentally treated is consumption, take up the leading points included (according to belief) in this disease. 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 235 - The same remarks apply to the use of alcohol. Many of our cases, indeed, are instances of the 'triple' habit, namely, morphin, cocain, and alcohol. The reason for withdrawing the drug in the gradual manner I have described, is not only to diminish the sufferings of the patient, but also to prevent the onset of serious symptoms. Every now and then, if the drug be abruptly withdrawn, signs of collapse — diarrhea, sweating, cardiac weakness, and dyspnea, with excessive prostration — may set in.
Page 313 - 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 8 - MD, with special chapters on Orthopedic Apparatus, by James K. Young, MD, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery in the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Assistant Orthopedic Surgeon to the Hospital of the University of Penn., etc.
Page 77 - The complaints of the first of the above classes may be called simply nervous; those of the second, in compliance with custom, may be said to be hysteric, and those of the third hypochondriac." Notwithstanding this lucid statement, and despite the great number of subsequent publications, little further progress was made until the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century, when there appeared the writings of Bouchut. This author in 1857 published a paper "On the Nervous State in its Acute...
Page 269 - Indeed, by opening one eye and closing the other, the same subject becomes hemi-cataleptic or hemi-lethargic. In lethargy, the knee-jerks are said to be exaggerated and there is also present a condition of hyperexcitability of the nerves and muscles. The latter phenomena have, however, been much disputed. The term somnambulism, Charcot applied to a state which he induced in subjects already lethargic or cataleptic, by slightly rubbing the top of the head with the tips of the fingers or the palm of...