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forms is a living issue which every physician has to meet. The proposition that "all disease is mental" seems so absurd to the medically trained man, that he is apt to ignore the fact that some disease is mental.

It is admitted that the profession has been engrossed with the physical side, discovering the principles of hygiene, aseptic surgery, antitoxin, scientific medicine, etc. It has not given attention to the psychic side, but there is evident an increased interest, and a few medical schools have established chairs in psychotherapeutics.

COPLEY SQUARE, BOSTON, January, 1907.

D. W. W.

Contents

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CHAPTER I

REASON AND INSTINCT

Books recommended: James," Psychology," Henry Holt;
Donaldson, "Growth of Brain," Scribners; Sandford,
"Experimental Psychology," Heath; Waldstein, “The
Subconscious Self," Scribners; Bramwell, "Hypnotism,"
Lippincott; Sidis, "Psychology of Suggestion," Apple-
ton; Sidis, “Multiple Personalities," Appleton. — Mod-
ern psychology is becoming an important branch of
medicine, because it is recognized that "no mental
modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or
followed by bodily change."- Cerebration is accompa-
nied by a temporary association and grouping of nerve
cells, but thought is not a physical matter. - Develop-
ment of nervous system a part of organic evolution.—
Psychic missing links. - Instincts, common to man and
beast. Man alone possesses reason.
-"No action but
such as shows a choice of means can be called indu-
bitable expression of mind."— Recepts and concepts. —
Man has three sets of impulses: (1) Congenital reflexes,
(2) acquired reflexes, (3) reason

Habit.

CHAPTER II

HABIT

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Human instincts are transient unless developed into habits. "As the twig is bent the tree inclines." Habits are reflex arcs, which like electric currents follow

the path of least resistance.

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- The development of habThe moral significance. "Man is a mere bundle

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-The concatenated impulse; economic value. Professional habits. Intelligent reading is wise skipping. The conscious and subconscious; relationship. — The "Moment Consciousness." Sleep a dissociation of

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- Dreams are sleeping hallucinations; duration short. - Caused by some centripetal - Infinite resources of the

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stimulus, somatic or external.

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subconscious. - Wonderful memory; how to utilize it. · A possible explanation of genius. — Geniuses not well balanced. Mental epidemics. - Concentration in the crowd but not of it

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CHAPTER III

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Sensation. Evolution of the special senses. - Doctrine of relativity: noumenon, phenomenon. Limitations of sense perception. - The threshold. The greatness and littleness of human intellect. - Special senses, a refinement of tactile sense. - The outward reference of sensation. The correlation of the senses. Visual perceptions. The inverted retinal image, current explanation of erect vision: tactile experience reinverts visual sensation; incorrect, because not analogous to other special - First sight of congenitally blind is always erect. - Mr. Hanna's experience. Man ignorant of retinal image. Each mathematical point of object is referred back to its proper place, and we see not the retinal image, but the object itself in space

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The blind spots; the two optic discs.- Retinal shadows: erect, because cast by objects too near the eye to form image on retina; outward projection of, produces inverted image. Outward reference of tactile sense; flexible

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Law of corresponding points. — Each ganglion cell two neurons, divide for both retina. — Orientation, with prism. — Diplopia: -physiological at distances farther or nearer than point fixed. Analogy of digital tactile sense.. - Binocular estimation of distance. – Fusing successive double images. — Coördination of convergence and accommodation. - Stereoscopic perspective. - Pictures correspond to right and left retinal images. Convergence required to fuse, determines distance; convergence excessive, nearness; convergence slight, distance.- May overcome mathematical perspective. - Binocular vision an acquired faculty.-Fusion training. The amblyoscope.

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CHAPTER V

HYPNOSIS-HISTORICAL

Hypnotism. Historical. Neuro - hypnotism.

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sleep, so called by Braid, 1843. — Phenomena are as old
as civilization.—- Early religions show many instances. -
Evident in religious fanaticism of to-day.— Mesmer.
"De Planetarium Influxa," 1776. The action and virtue
of animal magnetism. - The Paris establishment; mys-
tery. Investigation by Academy of Sciences: "Not
worthy of further scientific investigation."— Second in-
vestigation of mesmerism.—Eliotson, 1837, University
Hosp., London. - Resignation and publication of journal.
- Esdaile, 1845, India. - Painless surgery. - Braid, 1843,
Neurypnology." - Rechristened "
Hypnotism." Re-
sult of subjective causes. Liébeault, 1864, Nancy, so-
called "school."- Charcot, 1878, Salpêtrière school. -
Society for Psychic Research, 1882, International.
Bramwell, England, best living exponent. - Quacken-
boss, New York, moral reformation. — Morton Prince,
Boston, multiple personalities. — Petersen, Boston, trans-
lator of Wetterstrand. - Sidis, Brookline, “Psychology

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