TAILIEUCHUNG - Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery

Certain historic modes of healing, including the use of medical amulets and charms, which have been regarded from early times as magical remedies, belong properly to the domain of Psychical Medicine. For the therapeutic virtues of medical amulets are not inherent in these objects, but are due to the influence exerted by them upon the imaginative faculties of the individuals who employ them. They afford powerful suggestions of healing. In this volume the writer has sought to emphasize the fact that the efficiency of many primitive therapeutic methods, and the success of charlatanry, are to be attributed to mental influence | Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by 1 PRIMITIVE PSYCHO-THERAPY AND QUACKERY ROBERT MEANS LAWRENCE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Author Robert Means Lawrence 2 Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Release Date November 2 2007 EBook 23293 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PSYCHO-THERAPY AND QUACKERY Produced by Chris Curnow Fox in the Stars Michael Zeug Lisa Reigel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Transcriber s Notes Rx in this text represents the symbol used today to designate a prescription. ounce represents a symbol for ounce a symbol that looks like a short 7 on top of a 3. Words in Greek in the original are transliterated and placed between plus signs . Words italicized in the original are surrounded by underscores. A complete list of corrections follows the text. PRIMITIVE PSYCHO-THERAPY AND QUACKERY BY ROBERT MEANS LAWRENCE . AUTHOR OF THE MAGIC OF THE HORSE-SHOE ETC. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1910 COPYRIGHT 1910 BY ROBERT MEANS LAWRENCE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published October 1910 They have observed but little who have not remarked how much Imagination contributes to give success to the curative power of a medicine. VICESIMUS KNOX . Winter Evenings I p. 154. The mind has the same command over the body as the master over the slave. ARISTOTLE. PREFACE Certain historic modes of .

• Y học thường thức
• MEDICAL AMULETS
• TALISMANS
• ANIMAL MAGNETISM
• STYPTIC CHARMS
• PHYLACTERIES
• THE ROYAL TOUCH