Christian science, medicine, and occultismRebman, 1902 - 47 pages |
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Page 17 - These cases are divided into two groups. To the first group belong those cases in which anatomical changes are actually present but escape detection.
Page 16 - This is due to the fact that under the influence of the strong electric field the air becomes a conductor (ionized) and hence a part of the charge is led off.
Page 23 - All the cases where a cure or improvement was claimed, and which I had the opportunity of seeing and testing personally, were only disorders of a functional character, such as hysteria, nervous debility, etc.
Page 17 - ... than the direct influence of the organic lesion justifies." Hufeland points out that " even in cases of real sickness we must carefully distinguish between the illness and the feeling of being ill." And Moll says again, " I am convinced that every neurologist — nay, every experienced physician — has had in his own practice to deal with patients who, after having been treated locally, or even operated on by some specialist, for this or that other complaint without success, showed at once favourable...
Page 28 - My researches were made both in America and in Berlin, and my information is gained not only from persons who have been treated by Christian Scientists, but also from Christian Science healers themselves, who, I must admit, gave it ungrudgingly.
Page 24 - But these cases of hysteria, of general nervous debility, and of rheumatic affections, offer a remunerative field for the exploits of psychical treatment. Undoubtedly in the treatment of many of these ailments Christian Science can boast of unqualified success.
Page 33 - I have never come across a single phenomenon which was not open to explanation by those forces known to reputable science.
Page 20 - Christ, it is said that neither he nor his parents were guilty of sin ; in fact, ' he was born blind that the works of God be made manifest in him.