Psychology Applied to Medicine: Introductory StudiesF. A. Davis Company, 1907 - 141 pages |
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... accepted view , altho it was recognized that the evidence was meager in the ex- treme . But in 1889 Weismann , of Freiburg , pub- lished a strong denial , outlining a theory which in- creases the scope of natural selection . Weismann ...
... accepted view , altho it was recognized that the evidence was meager in the ex- treme . But in 1889 Weismann , of Freiburg , pub- lished a strong denial , outlining a theory which in- creases the scope of natural selection . Weismann ...
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... accepted with so little discrimination , that the child really becomes terribly scared . History is replete with mental epidemics , crusades , and financial panics , which are thoroly irrational . Undoubtedly it is safer to keep the ...
... accepted with so little discrimination , that the child really becomes terribly scared . History is replete with mental epidemics , crusades , and financial panics , which are thoroly irrational . Undoubtedly it is safer to keep the ...
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... accepted if the patient be put in a comfortable position with the head resting . The patient should be told to think only of sleep , and this idea should be repeated suf- HYPNOTISM - METHODS 77 ficiently often to secure his attention 76 ...
... accepted if the patient be put in a comfortable position with the head resting . The patient should be told to think only of sleep , and this idea should be repeated suf- HYPNOTISM - METHODS 77 ficiently often to secure his attention 76 ...
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... accepted . - Catalepsy unwise to exceed at first attempt ; sufficient for slight analge- sia ; sufficient for therapeutic suggestions . Anesthesia not practicable for general surgery , because not absolute in more than ten per cent ...
... accepted . - Catalepsy unwise to exceed at first attempt ; sufficient for slight analge- sia ; sufficient for therapeutic suggestions . Anesthesia not practicable for general surgery , because not absolute in more than ten per cent ...
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... accepted , of which the patient has no recollection on waking . When this stage is reached analgesia and anesthesia are easily effected , and the patient is sure to be en rap- port with the operator . He is oblivious to all other ...
... accepted , of which the patient has no recollection on waking . When this stage is reached analgesia and anesthesia are easily effected , and the patient is sure to be en rap- port with the operator . He is oblivious to all other ...
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A-HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION action altho Anesthesia animal magnetism auto-suggestion believe Berkeley Berkeley Bernheim BINOCULAR binocular vision Boston Braid brain Bramwell CALIFORNIA LIBRARY catalepsy cause CHAPTER Charcot claim clairvoyance conscious convergence Criminal suggestions cures diplopia disease Doctor drug estimation of distance evidence experience fact gate habit hallucinations human hypnosis hypnotism hysterical idea impulse INVERTED IMAGE irritant point latch little dog luminous point means medicine mental healing Mesmer method mind Morton Prince muscle natural nervous system normal noumenon object one's operator optic nerve organ outward reference pain parallax patient person phenomena phrenology physical physician physiology placebo Post-hypnotic suggestions practise prism Psychology psychotherapeutics Quackenboss REASON AND INSTINCT reinversion result retina retinal image Salpêtrière says Science scientific sensation Sidis sight sleep special senses stereoscope subconscious subliminal surgery symptoms tactile sense telepathy theory therapeutics thru tion to-day touch unconsciously UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vision waking warbler Wetterstrand
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Page 37 - 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 3 - ... 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 38 - Than, seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope, "I see," quoth he, "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 38 - 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 gropCj Than, seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope, "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a rope!
Page 38 - 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 21 - 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 37 - 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 iii - 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.
Page 136 - It and not the drug is probably the active agent in many medicines prescribed by qualified physicians. It is impossible to eliminate it from any form of therapeutics. The majority of humanity is so constituted that 1 Boston Med. and Surf. Journal, March 20, 1906. The Value of Drugs in Therapeutics. the " placebo " is the most feasible form of administering suggestion. There is another side, however, to the placebo question. Dr. Richard C. Cabot, instructor in medicine, Harvard Medical School, has...
Page 44 - As a matter of fact the field of vision, in one important particular, does not correspond to the field of external objects. The image is inverted. The rays of light proceeding from an object which by touch we know to be on what we call our right-hand fall on the left-hand side of the retina.