Psychology Applied to Medicine: Introductory StudiesF. A. Davis Company, 1907 - 141 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 15
Page vi
... 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 ...
Page xiv
... 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 ...
Page 62
... 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 ...
Page 67
... 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 ...
Page 71
... practise of mesmerism or animal magnet- ism . " This naturally caused his resignation . But Eliotson's influence was made greater than ever by the publication of a journal " for the collection and diffusion of information connected with ...
... practise of mesmerism or animal magnet- ism . " This naturally caused his resignation . But Eliotson's influence was made greater than ever by the publication of a journal " for the collection and diffusion of information connected with ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
a-hypnotic action altho analgesia Anesthesia animal magnetism auto-suggestion believe Bernheim Binocular body Boston Braid brain Bramwell catalepsy cause Charcot claim conscious convergence convergence excessive cures diplopia disease Dissociation Doctor drug elephant estimation of distance evidence experience fact follows gate habit hallucinations human hypnosis hypnotism hysterical idea impulse instinct inverted irritant point James Braid latch little dog luminous point matter means medicine mental healing Mesmer method mind moral Morton Prince muscle natural normal noumenon object one's operator optic nerve organ outward reference pain parallax patient phenomena phrenology physical physician physiology placebo Post-hypnotic suggestions practise prism Professor psychic Psychology psychotherapeutics Quackenboss reason reflexes reinversion result retina retinal image Salpêtrière says Science scientific seen sensation Sidis sight sleep stereoscope subconscious subliminal success surgery symptoms tactile telepathy theory therapeutics thing thru tion to-day touch unconsciously universal vision waking warbler Wetterstrand yellow warbler York
Popular passages
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 38 - 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 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 Elephant Is very like a snake!" The Fourth reached out his eager hand, And felt about the knee. "What most this wondrous beast is like Is mighty plain," quoth he; "Tis clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree.
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 131 - 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 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!
Page 111 - ... 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 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.