Suggestion, Its Law and Application; Or, The Principle and Practice of Psycho-therapeutics |
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Page 158 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Page 57 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 127 - a." She said it and the aphonia disappeared. A Catholic woman went to Dr. Hammond to consult with him about her sickness. He considered that she had an incurable disorder and he told her so. She turned away with a sigh. ' ' Ah, ' ' she said, "if I only had some of the water of Lourdes, then I should be cured.
Page 432 - When the cramps came on again, a powder containing four grains of ground biscuit was administered every seven minutes, while the greatest anxiety was expressed (within the hearing of the party) lest too much should be given. Half-drachm doses of bismuth had never procured the same relief in less than three hours. For four successive times did the same kind of attack recur, and four times was it met by the same remedy, and with like success.
Page 424 - The system makes an effort to eliminate the metabolic products of tissue-waste, and it is therefore not surprising that during acute grief tears are copiously excreted; that during sudden fear the bowels and the kidneys are caused to act, that during prolonged fear, the body is covered with a cold perspiration; and, that during anger, the mouth tastes bitter, due largely to the increased elimination of sulpho-cyanates. The perspiration during fear is chemically different, and even smells different...
Page 375 - ... course). If I want any pattern more complex I have to shout my orders in the din of the factory, where only two or three inferior workmen hear me, and shift their looms in a small and scattered way. Such are the confused and capricious results of the first, the more familiar stages of hypnotic suggestion. At certain intervals, indeed, the foreman stops most of the looms, and uses the freed power to stoke the engine and to oil the machinery. This, in my metaphor, is sleep, and it will be effective...
Page 329 - Let there but be a habit of nightly communion, not as a mendicant or repeater of words more adapted to the tongue of a sage, but as a humble individual who submerges or asserts his individuality as an integral part of a greater whole. Such a habit does more to calm the spirit and strengthen the soul to overcome incidental emotionalism than any other therapeutic agent known to me.
Page 96 - A young man, twenty years of age, not a habitual somnambulist, but a sufferer from nightmare, produced by chronic dyspepsia, on one occasion while spending the night in a hotel, dreamed that he was confined in a dungeon from which he must escape. He probably, in this dream passed into a somnambulistic state, for under that influence he broke his iron bedstead—a feat of strength, which, waking, he assuredly could not have accomplished— and tore up his bed-clothes.
Page 109 - When, on a certain occasion, he was expected home from New York, after attending medical lectures there during the winter of 1814-15, Mrs. Wayland, his mother, who was sitting with her husband, suddenly walked the room in great agitation, saying, "Pray for my son ; Francis is in danger.
Page 424 - The perspiration during fear is chemically different, and even smells different from that which exudes during a happy mood. . . . Now if it can be shown in many ways that the elimination of waste products is retarded by sad and painful emotions ; nay, worse than that, these depressing emotions directly augment the amount of these poisons. Conversely, the pleasurable and happy emotions, during the time they are active, inhibit the poisonous effects of the depressing moods, and cause the bodily cells...