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adjuvant administered affection alcohol alcoholic dementia already anesthesia anuria application of rest atony bath becomes Bernheim bromid catalepsy catarrh chloral chronic cocain condition course cure delirium dementia depression diet digestive disturbances drug electricity employed especially excessive excitement exercise experience fact fatigue followed frequently function given gradually grain hallucinations headache hyoscin hyperesthesia hypnosis hypnotism hypochondria hysteria hysterical importance increased indicated induced infrequently insanity insomnia instance instituted large number later less limbs lycetol marked massage measures melancholia ment milk mind morphin muscles necessary nervous system neurasthenia neuropathic normal nurse Occasionally pain paraldehyde paralysis paraplegia patient period persistent persons phenomena physical physician physiologic methods possible present prolonged pronounced psychic quantity readily regard rest in bed rest methods rest treatment result rule sciatica scopolamin sensations simple sleep slight small doses stimulants strychnin stupor suffering suggestion sulphonal symptoms thenia tion tism tonic treatment of neurasthenia trional usually various visceral withdrawal
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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 - 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 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 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 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 310 - Way-Shower (Christ). 5. We acknowledge the way of salvation demonstrated by Jesus to be the power of truth over all error, sin, sickness and death, and the resurrection of, human faith and understanding to seize the great possibilities and living energies of divine life.
Page 312 - Always begin your treatment by allaying the fear of patients. Silently reassure them as to their exemption from disease and danger. Watch the result of this simple rule of Christian Science, 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 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 theNervous State in its Acute...
Page 92 - ... exceedingly limited. It is true that there are present pelvic pain, pain referred to the back, to the hips, to the thighs, together with more or less marked indications of general ill-health, but certainly these symptoms cannot be grouped together and considered as a separate nervous disorder. They are a part of the pelvic disease itself, and are directly symptomatic of it. Again, the doctrine of reflex nervous disorders, which two or three decades ago had such an exceedingly strong hold upon...