Psychology Applied to Medicine: Introductory StudiesF. A. Davis Company, 1907 - 141 pages |
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... practise . Three chapters have been devoted to hypnotism in an attempt to sum up the essentials of the history , phenomena , and theories . Every physician should have a working knowledge of this subject , whatever his opinion may be as ...
... practise . Three chapters have been devoted to hypnotism in an attempt to sum up the essentials of the history , phenomena , and theories . Every physician should have a working knowledge of this subject , whatever his opinion may be as ...
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... practise. Three chapters have been devoted to hypnotism in an attempt to sum up the essentials of the history ... practising it. The great subject of mental healing in its various x PREFACE vu forms is a living issue which every ...
... practise. Three chapters have been devoted to hypnotism in an attempt to sum up the essentials of the history ... practising it. The great subject of mental healing in its various x PREFACE vu forms is a living issue which every ...
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... practise of medicine . — The personality of the physician . - Genuine good - will . - Healthful suggestions . Suggestions adverse to health . Diet . Suggestion present in all forms of therapeu- tics : in surgery , in refraction , in ...
... practise of medicine . — The personality of the physician . - Genuine good - will . - Healthful suggestions . Suggestions adverse to health . Diet . Suggestion present in all forms of therapeu- tics : in surgery , in refraction , in ...
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... practise one can manipulate his eyes so as to combine these pictures without a stereoscope . It requires dissociation of accommodation and convergence , and as the normal relation of these two functions is association , it is much ...
... practise one can manipulate his eyes so as to combine these pictures without a stereoscope . It requires dissociation of accommodation and convergence , and as the normal relation of these two functions is association , it is much ...
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... practised by the Chaldeans , Babylo- nians , Persians , and Egyptians . Aristides , a Grecian who lived about 120 A. D. , has left a description of a disordered mental state , which possessed him for thirteen years , which was probably ...
... practised by the Chaldeans , Babylo- nians , Persians , and Egyptians . Aristides , a Grecian who lived about 120 A. D. , has left a description of a disordered mental state , which possessed him for thirteen years , which was probably ...
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Page 40 - Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree!" The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said: "E'en the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can, This marvel of an Elephant Is very like a fan!" The Sixth no sooner had begun About the beast to grope, Than, seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope, "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a rope!
Page 40 - the Elephant Is very like a rope!" And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong...
Page 40 - God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!" The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, "Ho! what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear!
Page 5 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass by a process of...
Page 39 - IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: "God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!
Page 23 - THERE IS A TIME in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.
Page 133 - It is this principle of post hoc ergo proptcr hoc which has established ( ?) so many misconcqjtions and false theories as truths. Most Christian Scientists whom I have met are sure of their science because they have been cured. The theory has been accepted because "it cured me." Some one has facetiously remarked that there are "three kinds of lies: white lies, black lies and statistics"; and to a certain extent this is undoubtedly true.
Page 113 - ... continued, with similar testimony to its efficacy. On a certain Easter Sunday, that pious king, Louis XIV, touched about sixteen hundred persons at Versailles. This curative power was, then, acknowledged far and wide, by Catholics and Protestants alike, upon the Continent, in Great Britain, and in America ; and it descended not only in spite of the transition of the English kings from Catholicism to Protestantism, but in spite of the transition from the legitimate sovereignty of the Stuarts to...
Page 42 - ... unknowable. He learns at once the greatness and the littleness of human intellect — its power in dealing with all that comes within the range of experience ; its impotence in dealing with all that transcends experience.
Page v - PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO MEDICINE. — Introductory studies by David W. Wells, MD, lecturer on Mental Physiology, and Assistant in Ophthalmology, Boston University Medical School; Ophthalmic Surgeon, Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, Boston; Oculist, Newton (Mass.) Hospital.