Chapter CXX: Appendix: II (1)

RELIGION AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

Religion and psychotherapy have, of late, come to have many relations to each other and many interests in common, at least in the minds of a number of clergymen, and in popular estimation. There is no doubt but that religion can do much to soothe troubled men and women, even when their troubles are entirely physical in nature and origin. It at least lessens the unfavorable effect of worry in exaggerating such pathological processes as are at work. All diseases, functional and organic, are rendered worse by solicitude, while many troublesome symptoms become quite bearable if only the patient does not dwell on them too much but takes them as they come, carefully refraining from emphasizing them by over-attention. That is the very essence of psychotherapy. Religion, in the sense of trust in divine wisdom, can do much to originate and maintain this imperturbed frame of mind. People who are without religion, that is, without the feeling that somehow all their ills are a part of the great plan of the universe, the mystery of which is insoluble, but the recognition of which is demanded by reason, and who lack the assurance that somehow, in Browning's phrase:

"God's in His Heaven-
All's right with the world!"

-- are more prone to give way to over-anxiety and consequently to make themselves suffer more in all their ills, than is necessary or even likely in the more favorable state of mind of those whose trust in Providence is thorough and efficient.

In recent years there has been in the general population a distinct loss of faith in the great religious truths that are so helpful in engendering a peaceful state of mind in suffering. Many have come, if not to doubt of the Providence of the Creator, at least to feel that we do not know enough about it to place any such supreme dependence on it in the trials of life as would make it a source of relief, or at least consolation, in suffering. This same spirit of doubt has paralyzed faith in the hereafter and in all that trust in it brings, to sufferers, of consolation to come for their ills if these are borne as becomes rational creatures whose suffering has a purpose, though we may not comprehend it. Some people are destined by their physical make-up or by accidental conditions to considerable suffering. There are many ailments that are incurable and are definitely known to be incurable. Some of these entail great suffering of body and even more suffering of mind. Such suffering becomes quite unbearable unless the patient is of a very stoic disposition, or unless the thought of a hereafter in which the sufferings of this life will have a meaning is present to console.

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Great scientists in the midst of all our advance in science--one need but mention here such men as Lord Kelvin, Clerk Maxwell, Johann Mueller, Laennec, Pasteur, Claude Bernard, though the number might easily be multiplied--have insisted that the existence of a Creator is absolutely demanded by what we know of the physical universe. "Science demonstrates the existence of a Creator," is Lord Kelvin's expression. The existence of a Creator implies, also, the existence of laws made by Him, by which His universe is regulated in every detail, nothing being left to chance. Chance is indeed only a term which indicates that we do not know the causes at work. If somehow the Creator's power has been sufficient to bring the manifold things of the universe into existence according to a plan in which there is no such interference with one another as would cause serious disturbance of the universal order around us, then He can be trusted also to care for even the minutest details of creation and of human life.

In the gradual disintegration of the religious sense which has come as a consequence of certain materialistic tendencies in nineteenth century education and science, these religious sources of consolation have been shut off from a great many people. They have come to the feeling of being portions of a machine that moves hopelessly on, somehow, on the old principle, "The mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine." The sufferings of humanity then, are, for these people, only a portion of a great universe of suffering that is constantly going on but for which they can see no reason and no purpose. Lucretius's lines which make human sufferings the butt of the jokes of the gods who look gleefully on from their Elysian happiness, would represent the feelings of these doubters better than any religious expression. We have come back in this age, when evolution has so much influenced the thought of the time, after the curious cyclic fashion in which human thought repeats itself from era to era, to the attitude of mind of the old Roman poet who almost singly among his contemporaries, had been deeply affected by the same doctrine of evolution. The pessimism he was prone to as to the significance of human life has become once more the fashion.

Such pessimistic thoughts do not come, as a rule, while people are in good health, but they assert themselves with double emphasis in moments of trial and suffering. Lucretius himself is said to have committed suicide. The result of the diffusion of this materialistic pessimism in our time has been a gradual preparation for a revulsion of feeling in many minds. One manifestation of this reaction has been seen in a form of religion which denies entirely the existence of evil. God the Creator is good and therefore there can be no evil in His world. Whatever of evil there is, is only due to man's failure to see the entirety of things. Evil is an error of mortal mind--only that and nothing more. In spite of the manifest absurdity of the underlying principle, if people can only be brought to persuade themselves that there is no such thing as evil or suffering, then many of their discomforts disappear, all of their symptoms grow less and a sense of well-being results. It is, indeed, surprising how many even physical ills will be relieved by this state of mind if sincerely accepted. It is the highest possible tribute to psychotherapy and the curative influence of mind over body.

Another phase of this revulsion of feeling has been the institution of a church movement that would make sufferers realize once more all the {778} consolations there are in religion. The sufferer is brought to a renewed lively sense of the presence of the Creator in the universe and of His care for His creatures. The great purpose of suffering in making people better and stripping them of their meanness and selfishness is brought out. Anyone who has ever had called to his attention the difference between two brothers, one of whom has been chastened by suffering above which he has risen by character development, and another who has enjoyed good health and prosperity all his life, will realize how much of good suffering means in the world. Pain is not in itself an evil, but a warning, and most of the trials of life can rather readily be shown to partake of this character. A man who can be made to submit himself, then, to the will of the Creator and be persuaded to acknowledge that somehow we must try to work out our part in the great scheme of things behind which the Creator stands, is somewhat like the soldier ready even when tired and worn out, to go in on a forlorn hope, because he has confidence that he is executing a part of the plan of his general for his country's welfare, though he does not know how, and he is quite well aware that it is going to cost him much in pain and suffering, and perhaps his life.

There is no doubt that an abiding sense of religion does much for people in the midst of their ailments and, above all, keeps them from developing those symptoms due to nervous worry and solicitude which so often are more annoying to the patient than the actual sufferings he or she may have to bear. While religion is often said to predispose to certain mental troubles, it is now well appreciated by psychiatrists that it is not religion that has the tendency to disturb the mind, but a disequilibrated mind has a tendency to exaggerate out of all reason its interests in anything that it takes up seriously. Whether the object of the attention be business, or pleasure, or sexuality, or religion, the unbalanced mind pays too much attention to it, becomes too exclusively occupied with it, and this over-indulgence helps to form a vicious circle of unfavorable influence. While many people in their insanity, then, show exaggerated interest in religion, this is only like other exaggerated interests of the disequilibrated, and religion itself is not the cause but only a coincidence in the matter.

Clouston, in his book on "Unsoundness of Mind" (Methuen, London, 1911), put this very well when he said, "It is true that religion, touching as it does, in the most intense way the emotional nature, and the spiritual instincts of mankind, sometimes appears to cause and is often mixed up with insanity. But in nearly all such cases the brain of the individual was originally unstable, specially emotional, over-sensitive, hyperconscientious, and often somewhat weak in the intellectual and inhibitory faculties and, if looked for, other causes will usually be found." He had said just before, "To talk of 'religious insanity' as if it were a definite and definable form is in my judgment a mistake."

On the contrary, there is now a growing conviction that a deep religious feeling, a sense of dependence on and trust in the Almighty, will do more than anything else to keep people from those neurotic manifestations which so often are seen in our day and are growing more and more frequent as life becomes more strenuous and more attention is paid to the material side of things, to the exclusion of the spiritual. How true this is may be judged from expressions that have been used in recent years by well-known specialists in {779} nervous diseases and in psychology. These have included men who were often not believers in religion themselves but who recognized its influence for good for others. Such expressions are to be found in the writings of men of every nationality. Not infrequently, in spite of their own religious affiliation, they acknowledge what a profound influence certain forms of religion have over people. These testimonies have been multiplying in our medical literature in recent years, because apparently physicians have come to appreciate much better by contrast the influence for good of religion over some of their patients, since so many of the sufferers from nervous diseases they see have not this source of consolation to recur to.

In America we have a number of such testimonies. In his "Self Help for Nervous Women" Dr. John K. Mitchell of Philadelphia, who may be taken to represent in this matter the Philadelphia School of Neurologists, to which his father has lent such distinction, said:

It is certainly true that considering as examples two such widely
separated forms of religious belief as the Orthodox Jews and the
strict Roman Catholics, one does not see as many patients from them
as from their numbers might be expected, especially when it is
remembered that Jews as a whole are very nervous people and that the
Roman Church includes in this country among its members numbers of
the most emotional race in the world.

Of only one sect can I recall no example. It is not in my memory
that a professing Quaker ever came into my hands to be treated for
nervousness. If the opinion I have already stated so often is
correct, namely that want of control of the emotions and the
over-expression of the feelings are prime causes of nervousness,
then the fact that discipline of the emotions is a lesson early and
constantly taught by the Friends, would help to account for the
infrequency of this disorder among them and adds emphasis to the
belief in such a causation.

Prof. Muensterberg, who may be fairly taken to represent the German school, but whose long years of residence in America have made him a cosmopolitan, is quite as positive in his declaration of the place that religion may hold in making human suffering less. In his "Psychotherapy" he devotes considerable attention to the subject. The religious discipline, that is, the training of human beings from their earliest years to recognize that there is a higher law than their own feelings and that they must suppress many of their desires and take evil as it comes as a portion of human life, is of itself, he insists, an excellent preparation to enable the individual to bear up under the physical and mental trials of life and to make many symptoms that would otherwise be almost intolerable, quite bearable. It is from earliest years that this training must make itself felt, and Prof. Muensterberg insists that from early childhood the self-control has to be strong and the child has to learn from the beginning to know the limits to the gratification of his desires and to abstain from reckless self-indulgence. A good conscience, he says, a congenial home and a serious purpose, are, after all, the safest conditions for a healthy man, and the community does effective work in preventive psychotherapy whenever it facilitates the securing of these factors.

Self-denial has always been one of the main elements of religious training, and indeed was declared a chief source of merit for the hereafter. The modern psychotherapeutist, however, preaches self-denial almost as strenuously as the religious minister of the olden time, only now not for any religious {780} merit or reward, but because it makes life more pleasant and by that much happier. When men and women have learned to deny themselves in their younger years, it is not hard to stand even pain when they grow older, and pain is inevitable in every human life and the training to stand it is therefore worth while. Pain borne with equanimity is lessened by one-half if not in its intensity then at least in its power to disturb, and since religion will do this it possesses an important remedial value. Here is where religion is particularly valuable and the passing of it from many minds has thrown them back on themselves and left them without profound interests, so that they occupy themselves overmuch with the trivial incidents of life within them and disturb the course of many of their functions by giving exaggerated thought to them. Religion adds a great purpose to life and such a purpose keeps men and women to a great extent from being disturbed about trifles.

Of course, it would be too bad if religion should do no more than this. This, however, is the only phase of it with which we are concerned here. We may think very strongly with Prof. Muensterberg, that it would be quite wrong to assign to it only this place in life. He says: "The meaning of religion in life is entirely too deep that it should be employed merely for the purpose of lessening the pains and aches of humanity and the dreads that are so often more imaginary than real." He insists that "It cheapens religion by putting the accent of its meaning in life on personal comfort and absence of pain." He adds, "If there is one power in life which ought to develop in us a conviction that pleasure is not the highest goal and that pain is not the worst evil, then it ought to be philosophy and religion." Present-day movements, however, tend to subordinate religion to this-worldliness rather than to other-worldliness, and by just that much they take out of religion its real significance. We are here on trial for another world is the thought that in the past strengthened men to bear all manner of ills, if not with equanimity, at least without exaggerated reaction. It has still the power to do so for all those who accept it simply and sincerely.

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INDEX.

Abdominal discomfort, 302; from coffee, 306; from tea, 30; from tone factors, 306. Abdominal viscera, 176. Abernethy, 268. Abortion, frequent, 457. Abracadabra, 61. Absence of occupation, 219. Absent treatment, 141. Abstraction, 129. Academy, French, telepathy and, 147. Accidents, telepathy and, 144. Aches, filing, 397; occupation, 390; sawing, 397; sweeping, 397; writing, 396. Acid, lactic, as a bactericide, 247. Acquirements not transmitted, 628. Action, integrative, 123. Addictions, drug, 707. _Adiposus panniculus_, 299. Adjuvants, 163. Advertising, psychology of, 690. Aerophobia, 612. AEsculapius, 7. Affairs, knowledge of, 177. "After dinner sit awhile," 180, 182. Afternoon fever, 180. After-treatment, of alcoholism, 705; of tuberculosis, drug habits, 705. Agassiz's dream, 137. Agate, 62. Age, fasting and, 298. Agoraphobia, 612. Agrippa, Cornelius, 15. Aichmophobia, 581, 612. Ailurophobia, 612. Air, appetite and, 268; fresh, comfort and, 356; in dyspepsia, 262; in intestinal rumbling, 284; in intestinal troubles, 284; rather than exercise, 203; swallowing, 284. Alchemy, 40, 41, 56. Alcohol, 3;

in pneumonia, 31;
in tuberculosis, 30;
in vague affections, 31;
milk and, 30;
night workers and, 175;
suggestive influence and, 31.

Alcoholism,
after-treatment in, 705, 706;
beginning of, 704;
confidence in, 704;
contagion in, 697;
cures of, moral, 395;
cures of, old and new, 694;
frequent treatment in, 704;
heredity in, 698;
inherited resistance to, 698;
mental influence in, 696;
moral influences in, 704;
national, 698;
occupation pains and, 398;
prophylaxis in, 701;
real cures of, 395;
religion and, 706;
sanitarium question in, 702;
supposed inheritance of, 697;
"sure cures" of, 696;
treatment of, 702;
tuberculosis and, 703;
warnings as suggestions in, 700;
youth and, 701.
Alexander of Hohenlohe, Prince, 75.
Alexander of Tralles, 13, 61.
Alexandria, 11.
Alteratives, 100.
Ambrosia, 59.
Amenorrhea,
ductless glands and, 439;
dread and, 439;
fright and, 437;
home sickness and, 437;
inanition and, 439;
mental causes of, 437;
mode of living and, 437;
reputed remedies for, 440;
suggestion in, 440;
tuberculosis and, 437.
Amethyst, 60.
Amputation stump, pain in, 86.
Amulets, 15, 60.
Amusements,
diversified, 9 182;
mind and, 227.
Anatomy of melancholy, 61.
Anemia in Porto Rico, 106.
Anesthesia, 111;
clasped hands in, 757;
deep breathing in, 757;
fright in, 757;
from fixed attention, 755;
game for children, 757;
hearing during, 758;
hypnotic, 754;
local, 758;
mental diversion in, 757;
mind and, 733;
occupation and, 754;
rapid breathing: in, 755;
suggestive, 756;
vomiting after, 758.
Anesthetist,
familiarity with, 756;
personality of the, 756.
Anger, brief madness and, 741.
_Angina pectoris_, 27, 334;
Broadbent on, 339;
Charcot on, 337;
coffee and, 336;
false, 338;
in woman, 339;
neurotic, 338;
psychotherapy and, 337;
reflected pains in, 335;
spurious, 336;
tea and, 336;
tobacco and, 336;
true and false, 336, 339.
Anicetum, 59.
Animal emanations, 375;
horse and dog, 244.
Animal hypnosis, 161.
Animal magnetism, 142;
malicious, 142.
Animal risibile, 105.
Anise seed in lichen, 251.
Anthropology, criminal, 744.
Anodynes, useless, 219.
Antidotes, suggestion and, 33.
Antimony, 3;
suggestions and, 26.
Antiochos, 12.
Antipathies, gastric, 245.
Apartment hotels, 183.
Apoplectic habitus, 518.
Apoplectics,
examples encouraging, 521;
new associations for, 521;
new interests for, 521.
Apoplexy,
Bacchus and, 517;
cerebral, 513;
change of occupation in, 519;
complications in, 523;
daughter as nurse in, 520;
exciting occupation and, 517;
heredity and, 517;
hypochondriac, 514;
lack of air and exercise in, 519;
life-direction in, 519;
mind before and after, 514;
misplaced sympathy in, 522;
neuroses and, 522;
nurse, choice of, in, 520;
outings and human interests and, 522;
precocious, 510;
preliminary motor symptoms in, 516;
premonitory symptoms in, 514;
prognosis in, 520;
prophylaxis in, 517;
pyramidal tracts and, 524;
sympathetic cure of, 520;
strokes, number of, in, 523;
thinking and, 517;
trained nurse in, 520;
treatment of, 513;
Venus and, 517;
Vulcan and, 517.
Apparatus, brain,
insulating, 123;
switching, 123.
Apparitions, explanation of, 607.
Appearances, wraith-like, 608.
Appendicitis,
chronic, 252;
recurrent attacks of, 282;
simulant, 587.
Appetite, 262, 592;
air and, 268;
emotion and, 264;
feeling of, 264;
food preparation and, 266;
habit and, 265;
increase in, 263;
increasing, 301;
indoor life and, 264;
instinct and, 264;
in the morning, 266;
nervous loss of, 267;
will and, 263, 592.
Appetizer, frequent eating as an, 267.
Appetizers, 264.
Application of psychotherapeutic principles, 104.
Arabian mental medicine, 13.
Arabian Nights, 12, 46.
Arch of the foot, yielding of the, 415, 417.
Areas of pain transfer, 252.
Argyria, 36.
Aristides, ancient hypochondriac, 73.
Aristotle, 10.
Arm,
pitcher's, 397;
motorman's, 397.
Armless men's foot powers, 419.
Arnold, Matthew, and number 13, 639.
Arrhythmia, 322;
gastro-cardiac, 329;
longevity and, 323.
Arterial sclerosis, diagnosis of, 514.
Arteries,
calcification of, 512;
longitudinal degeneration of, 515;
premature degeneration of, 518;
tortuous, 515.
Arterio-sclerosis, 512;
dizziness in, 515;
dread of, 516;
over-eating and, 518;
stimulants in, 518;
tobacco and, 518;
vertigo in, 515.
Artery of cerebral cortex, 125.
Arthritis,
acute, 379;
acute progressive, 423;
"acute rheumatoid," 422;
chronic, course of, 425.
Arthritis deformans, 421;
climate and, 428;
chronic, 424;
diet and, 427;
electricity and, 427;
exercise and, 427;
in old persons, 426;
knitting and, 427;
mechano-therapy and, 427;
mental attitude and, 426;
muscle disturbances in, 424;
nerves and, 422;
neurotic additions in, 425;
occupation of mind in, 428;
symmetrical, 422;
treatment of, 426;
usefulness in, 426;
weather and, 428.
Arthritises, hysterical, 429.
Arthropathy, nervous, 422.
Asafetida, 69.
Association fibers, diversion of, 601.
Association of ideas, 123.
Astasia-abasia, 86.
Asthma,
brothers and, 377;
cardiac, 364;
cat, 374;
cigarettes and, 366;
climatotherapy and suggestion in, 368;
cubebs and, 366;
cures for, 366;
cyanosis in, 365;
drugs and suggestion in, 368;
dust and, 369;
emphysema in, 365;
essential, 364;
eye strain and, 367;
horse, 376;
horse serum and, 377;
horse sensitization and, 377;
human emanations and, 377;
lavage and, 367;
mental influence and, 365;
mental shock and, 366;
mouth breathing and, 367;
neurotic, 364;
picture of hayfield and, 375;
renal, 364;
saltpeter paper and, 366;
suggestion in, 366;
symptomatic, 364;
varied cures for, 367.
Astrology,
Hippocrates on, 38;
in surgery, 746;
reassurance and, 40;
suggestion and, 38;
venesection and, 746.
Ataxia,
accessory symptoms of, 526;
back knee, 524;
depression in, 525;
emotional, 572;
flat-foot and, 524;
from emotion, 572;
in talking, walking, etc., 571;
locomotor, 524;
loose joints and, 524;
suggestions, favorable and unfavorable, in, 525.
Athens, psychotherapy in, 8.
Athletes,
pneumonia and, 202;
typhoid and, 202.
Attacks, auto-hypnotic, 541.
Attention,
concentration of, 755;
conscious, 129;
memory and, 679;
process of, 127;
power of, 124;
Ramon y Cajal's theory of, 126.
Attitude, mental, 100.
Attitudes,
influence of, 100;
of mind, 103.
Augustine, St., on warnings, 611.
Authorities on tuberculosis, American, 359.
Auto-hypnotism, 161.
Auto-intoxication,
intestinal, 172, 270;
supposed, 270.
Automatism, inhibition of, 601.
Auto-suggestion and the will, 148.
Avalanche in nerves, law of. 111.
Avalanche, law of, 585.
Aversion
to cats, 617;
to dead bodies, 617.
Avicenna on mental influence, 14.
Awake, lying, 667.
Awaking, mode of, 165.
Axis cylinders, 112.
Axon hillock, 114.

B

Babies, fat, 292. Bacchae, 688. Back ache, 174. Bacon, as food, 249. Bacteria, lactic, 247. Ball for constipation, 278. Balneo-therapy, 5. Barometer, pains and, 382. Baseball interest, 228. Basedow's disease, 500. Basil, Valentine, 9, 26. Basophobia, 613. Bath, cold, 166; hot, 166; morning, 166. Bathing, abuse of, 166; overfrequent, 167. Berkeley, Bishop, 57. Bernard, St., 74. Bernheim, hypnotism and, 159. Biliary colic, pseudo, 588. Billiards, 180, 182. Binet, 153. Biographic Clinics, 258. Bishop, the mind-reader, 147, 194. Bismarck's second eighty years, 724. Bismuth, milk of, 285. Bladder, emptying the, 470; evacuation of the, position in, 212. Blanched fingers, 63. Blanching, 190. Bleeding, old-time, 381. Blind and deaf training, 215. Blind, color recognition in the, 214; training of feeling in the, 213. Blood, child's not mother's, 462; turning of the, 64. Blood letting, patient's mind and, 14. Bloodstone, 60. Blue glass, 44. Blue light, 44. "Blues, the," 641. "Bluidy Jock," 357. Blush, intestinal and vesical, 282. Blushing, 190; obsession, 613. Body, influence of, on mind, 100. Boerhaave, 17, 71. Bonaparte, 85. Bouchard, 270. Bovary, Madame, 243. Bowels, over-attention to, 287. Bowling, 182. Boyle, Sir Robert, 35. Bradycardia, 342; case of, 343. Brain, anatomy of, 18; capillaries in the, 125; cells of, vital energy of, 131; cells of, number of, 132; cortex of, 109, 117; complexity of the, 109; intellect and, 549; machine, 132; number of cells in the, 110. Brain workers, 601. Brains, as food, 244. Bramwell, Dr. Byron, 374. Bramwell, Dr. J. Milne, 160. Bread pills, 88. Breakfast, a full, 299; before, 168; company at, 170; habits, 169; mail before, 170; newspaper at, 170. Bridgeman, Laura, 214. Bright's disease, insidious, 558; latent, 558; neurotic symptoms of, 558. Bringer of Peace, 7. Broadbent, Sir Wm., 319, 326; on angina, 339. Brodie, Sir Benjamin, and hysterical joints, 386, 589, 749. Bronchi, dilatation of, relief in, 210. Bronchiectasis, position in, 210. Brontophobia, 612. Brown-Sequard, 48, 67. Bunion, formation of, 417; gout and, 416. Bunions and flatfoot, 416. Bursa, housemaids', 399; miners', 399; organ grinders', 399; sitters', 399. Bursae, discomforts of, 399. Business, anxieties in, 184; habits of, 178; knowledge of, 177; light, air, and position in, 177; walk to, 171; worries in, 185. Butter, microbes in, 95. Buxom, etymology of, 297.

C

Cabanis, 84.
Cagliostro, 47.
_Calamus scriptorius_, 12.
Calculi, preputial, 485.
Calculus, biliary, simulation of, 282.
Calmady, Sir Richard, case of maternal impression in fiction, 221.
Calomel, 3;
in pneumonia, 22;
suggestion and, 27.
Campbell Thompson and cuneiform inscriptions, 38.
Canals, semi-circular, 97.
Cancer,
abdominal, 303;
heredity in, 631;
latent indigestion and, 255;
mind and, 750;
nursing tonic in, 222.
Capillaries, congestion of, 126.
Card playing, 182.
Cardiac conditions, diagnosis of, 316.
Cardiac exercise, 325.
Cardiac inhibition, 313.
Cardiac neurosis and prognosis, 321, 322.
Cardiac palpitation, the intellectual life and, 323.
Cardiac stomach disturbance, 333.
Carlsbad, 278.
Carlyle's Miscellanies, 47, 685.
Carminatives, 285.
Carnelian, 62.
Cassius, lean and hungry, 297.
Casts, intestinal and tubular, 286.
Catalepsy, hypnotic, 159.
Catarrh, 39, 59;
seasonal, 368.
"Catarrh spring," 369.
Cathay, cycle of, 517.
Catherine of Siena, 74.
Cato learning Greek, 680.
Cats,
conjunctivitis and, 375;
consciousness of presence of, 618;
coryza and, 374;
digestion disturbed by presence of, 254;
dread of, 374, 617;
dread from memory of killing, 375;
fear of, and furs, 618;
intolerance of, 374;
odor of, 619;
smell of, 374;
urticaria and, 374.
Cautery,
actual, 68;
psychotherapeutics and, 408.
Cells,
complexity of brain, 131;
Golgi, 131;
of the ventral horn, 133;
perivascular, 121;
pigment, 121;
rest, 652;
spindle, 112.
Cerebral artery, control of, 125.
Cerebration, unconscious, 128, 132, 134.
Cervical ribs, 400.
Chair, comfortable, 210.
Chamois garments, 168.
Champneys, on painful menstruation, 445.
Chance, 776.
Character,
and suffering, 222;
in therapeutics, 358;
upbuilding of, 222.
Charcot, Dr., 71;
on menstrual mental states, 434.
Charcot crystals, 364.
Charms for erysipelas, 22, 60.
Charmides (Plato), 11.
Cheese, habituation to, 246.
Chest protectors, 167.
Chesterfield, Lord, 225.
Chesterton, on suicide, 722.
Chestnuts, horse, for rheumatism, 385.
Chewing in tuberculosis, 355.
Cheyne, Dr., 314.
Child,
diversion of the, 228;
first years of the, 230;
recreation of the, 228.
Childbirth,
dangers of, 458;
natural, 458;
over-zeal to help in, 458.
Children,
care of, 221;
fat, 267;
increase of suicide among, 721.
Chilliness, 773.
Chloral in hypnotism, 156.
Chorea,
anemia and, 562;
endocarditis and, 562;
etiology of, 561;
expectant treatment of, 563;
colds and, 562;
consciousness in, 562;
cures of, 562;
fright in, 562;
growing pains and, 562;
pathology of, 562;
prophylaxis in, 563;
pure neurosis and, 561;
simple life and, 564;
subsequent habit after, 563;
treatment of, 562.
Cicero, 189.
Circle, vicious, 51, 251.
Circulation, favoring return of, 208.
Cirrhosis, alcoholic, 175.
Civil War, Reports of, 286.
Clairvoyant, 147.
Claude, Bernard, 20, 313.
Claudication, intermittent, 512.
Claustrophobia, 612, 616.
Clavus _hystericus_, 547.
Clergyman's knee, 411;
sore throat, 411.
Clinics, biographic, 601.
Clitoris, removal of, 488.
Clothing, 167;
warm, 356.
Clouston, 191;
on religion, 777.
Coccydynia, 428.
Coccygodynia, 68;
causes of, 428;
hysterical, 429;
labor and, 428;
neurotic, 429;
over-attention to, 429.
Coffee and abdominal distress, 307.
Cohnheim, 251.
Coincidences, 144;
telepathy and, 146.
Colds,
fat and, 298;
fresh, 350;
fresh air and, 350;
more sleep and, 350;
night air and, 350;
quinine and whiskey for, 349;
rational treatment of, 349;
settled on lungs, 358;
taking, 167.
Colitis,
cures for, 288;
excess of salt in, 284;
in Civil War, 286;
increase of, 287;
muco-membranous, 286, 288;
resorts, 289;
suggestion in, 288;
surgery for, 288.
Colles' Law, 630.
Color blindness, 771.
Columbus, 42.
Comedy, musical, 227.
Comfort, mental and physical, 761.
Compensation, 213.
Concussion of the brain, 118.
Conditions, mechanical, in pains, 174.
Confession in sex habits, 486.
Confidence, 15;
of the patient, 14;
of the physician, 4.
Conjunctivitis, cat, 375.
Constipation, 268;
exercise in, 276;
fats and sugars in, 276;
in obesity, 296;
in the stout, 278;
oriental, 271;
position in, 276;
prophylaxis in, 269;
reassurance in, 271;
tolerance in, 272.
Contagion,
coughing and, 688;
expectoration and, 688;
fashion and, 691;
favorable mental, 692;
giggling, 688;
health, 692;
laughing, 688;
moving pictures and, 693;
murder, 691;
not heredity, 298;
psychic, 688;
sighing, 688;
suicide, 691;
yawning, 688.
Contagious trifles, 688.
Co-ordination in the organism, 132.
Copenhagen, Perkins in, 49.
Copremia, supposed, 270.
Cornelius Agrippa, 15.
Corns, soft, 418.
Corpulency, 290.
Cortex,
diagram of, 113;
pyramidal cell in the, 122;
visual, 110.
Coryza,
cat, 375;
vaso-motoria periodica, 369;
yearly, 372.
Cough,
as tic, 348;
habit, 347;
hemorrhage and, 346;
intestinal, 348;
in tuberculosis, 348;
irrational, 349;
mental control of, 361;
ordinary, 345;
ovarian, 348;
reflex, 347;
remedies for, 345, 349;
stomach, 348;
stopping a, 210;
suggestion and, 345;
unproductive, 345;
uterine, 348.
Coughing, control of, 361.
Counter irritation in nervous disease, 511.
Courting and telepathy, 143.
Coventry Patmore, Mrs., 144.
Coxalgia, hysterical, 429.
Cramp rings, 61, 80.
Cranberries in erysipelas, 22.
Creator, existence of, 776.
Crises,
gastric, 526;
intestinal, 526;
tabetic, 526.
Critias, 11.
Cromwell, 81.
Crooke's theory of telepathy, 142.
Croup, nervous, 669.
Cure-alls, 3.
Cure
houses, 10;
magnetic, 55;
relieve, console, 186;
smiling and laughing, 104.
Cured cases as evidence, 52, 60.
Cures, 50;
faith, 78;
for colitis, 288;
for tuberculosis, 351;
hayfever, 373;
supposed, 51, 387.
Curschmann's spirals, 364.
Cutten, on faith cures, 81.
Czermak, Prof., on inhibition, 313.

D

Dalton, color blind, 772.
Dangers of hypnotism, 161;
Dr. J. K. Mitchell on, 161.
Darkness,
dread of, 620, 668;
Romilly and, 621;
Rousseau and, 620.
Dawdling, 182.
Dead bodies, aversion to, 617.
Deaf, training of the, 215.
Death,
AEschylus on, 622;
After, What? 88;
attitude toward, 730;
captain of, 350;
dread of, 621;
fear of early, 622;
impending, 336;
life and, 89;
mind and, 90;
moment of, 147;
premonition of, 636;
put off, 91;
socially, 731;
Sophocles on, 622.
Defectives, sexual, 474.
Deformities,
coincidences and, 464;
etiology of, 466;
falls and, 467;
missteps and, 467.
Degeneration, stigmata of, 744.
Delusions, 603.
_Dementia praecox_ and paresis, 532.
Dendrites, 112.
Dentist's limp, 398.
Depression and disease, 641;
and diversion, 643;
and dyspepsia, 233;
and hobbies, 646;
and indigestion, 233;
an incident, 650;
benefits of, 650;
care of ailing a cure for, 645;
care of animals a cure for, 645:
care of plants a cure for, 645;
feminine, and children, 644;
frequency of, 647;
garden cures for, 646;
heart disease and, 642;
historical examples of, 647;
insomnia and, 644;
Lord Lytton and, 648
Lowell, James Russell, and, 648
nephritis and, 642;
periodical, 641
reading in, 646.
De Puysegur's instruction in hypnotism, 154.
Dermatotherapy, the mind in, 495.
Descartes, 41.
Desks, comfortable, standing, 176.
Determinism, 744.
Deterrent materials and suggestions, 34.
Deterrent taste and smell, 68.
Deterrent therapeutics, 63.
Diabetes
acidosis, 500;
air and exercise in, 499;
causes of, 496;
danger of over-treatment in, 497;
eczema in, 496;
frequent in obese, 294;
general condition in, 497;
incurable, 496;
interval treatment of, 498;
oatmeal and, 498;
over-treatment of, 497;
pancreatic changes in, 496;
physician and patient's, 497;
potatoes and, 498;
rigid diet and solicitude in, 499;
secondary symptoms of, 497;
individual, the, and, 498;
unfavorable suggestion, 496.
Diagnosis, announcing the, 354.
Diancecht, Irish physician, 58.
Diaphragm,
excursions of the, 362;
movements of the, 362.
Diarrhea,
emotional, 283;
fright and, 279;
habitual, 280;
nervous, 558;
nervous, and urticaria, 281;
neurotic, 279;
worry and, 280.
Diathesis, uric acid, 380.
Diet,
_do not_, 257;
dyspepsia and, 256;
fads, 171;
limitation of, 275;
mixed, 275;
restrained, 298;
rules, harmful, in, 256;
tinkering, 380.
Diffusion, laws of, 132.
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 56.
Digestion,
brain workers and, 258;
chemistry and, 242;
contrary suggestions and, 251;
disgust and, 243;
influence of mind upon, 242;
mental changes and, 247;
of cat, disturbed, 254;
prejudices and, 242;
study and, 253;
worries and, 253.
Digitalis and mental influence, 313.
Directions to physicians, suggestion and, 197.
Disappearances, 608.
Disappointments, mental states of, 643.
Discipline, of mind, 196; of self, 223.
Discomfort,
digestion and, 253;
with eating, 301.
Discontinuity of the nervous system, 118.
Discoveries, scientific, 46.
Discovery, supposedly wonderful, 192.
Disease,
American, 380;
incurable, 186;
individual, 224;
patients and, 163;
suggestion of, 94; thinking, 99.
Disease suggestions, 250.
Diseases of ductless glands, 496.
Dislocations, after-effects of, 388.
Disposition,
suggestion and, 101;
dual, 150.
Distension, 332.
Disuse, atrophy and pain, 394.
Diversion, 182;
children's, 228;
from pain, 225;
of mind, 9;
true, 224.
Divinity, medical, 7.
Doctor, "conjure," 64.
Dog and hog, 243.
Dominant ideas, 750.
Donne, Dr., 37.
Doubting, 732;
daily review in, 738;
habit, 733;
marriage and, 735;
opening letters and, 735;
ordination and, 735;
outdoor air and, 738;
prophylaxis in, 737.
Doubts,
Hamlet's, 735;
program for day in, 738.
Dread, 2, 612, 613;
habit of control of, 615;
mental discipline in, 615:
of arterio-sclerosis, 515;
of death, 621;
of dirt, 615;
of heights, 614;
of indigestion, 306;
of insanity, 623;
of small heights, 615;
of the dark. 620;
of water, 621;
physical basis of, 614;
subconscious, 625.
Dreads,
heredity and, 626;
men of genius and, 623.
Dreaming,
"all the night long," 673;
by day, 671;
constant, Hazlitt, Mitchell and Owen, 672;
Laughing, Blushing and, 607, 672.
Dreams, 8, 78, 669;
and children, 678;
and digestion, 100;
and fright, 677;
and reading, 678;
and sensations, 575;
art in, 136;
children's, 677;
erotic, 479;
frequency of, 671;
insufficient clothing in, 671;
life and, 136;
mathematical, 136;
mercy's, 136;
of falling, 670;
out of breath, 671;
poems and, 136;
prophecy fails, 676;
prophetic, 675;
rearrangement in, 635;
short duration of, 673;
significance of, 674;
suggestions and, 678;
telepathic, 674;
therapy and, 669.
Drug addictions, 707.
Drug habit,
after-cures for, 712;
confidence in, 711;
cures for, 709;
curiosity and, 708;
early treatment in, 710;
forming, 290;
heredity and, 712;
individual, 707;
over-confidence in, 709;
pleasant, 708;
prophylaxis in, 708;
relapses in, 709;
sanitarium question and, 710.
Drugs, 8;
effects of, imaginary, 88;
in sufficient doses, 4.
Drunkenness, 117.
Dualism of disposition, 151.
Dumas, 47.
Dumb-bell, a parody of exercise, 204.
Dundrearyisms, 464.
Dupre, Giovanni, 136.
Dupuytren's slap for anesthesia, 754.
Dust and disease, 172.
Duval and neurons, 114.
Dwarf of French king, 314.
Dysmenorrhea,
constipation in, 442
cystic ovaries in, 446;
extragenital 445;
extrapelvic organs in, 442
fisherwomen and, 444;
individual 446;
lack of occupation in, 443
membranous, 445;
minor lesions in, 446;
moral fiber and, 443;
operation idea and, 443;
running down and, 442;
spasmodic, 445;
suggestion and, 445.
Dyspepsia, 301;
abdominal muscles and, 261;
air and, 262;
American, 179;
depression and, 233;
from diet regulation, 256;
mental work and, 253;
sleep and, 262;
state of mind in, 250.
Dyspeptics,
exercise for, 261;
longevity of, 259.

E

Eat, the will to, 263.
Eating,
dread of, 264;
enough, 299;
more, 301;
slow, 231;
uncomfortable feelings after, 263.
Eddyism, 60, 386.
Edema, angio-neurotic, 283.
Education and discipline, 196.
Efficiency experts, 179.
Eggs,
biliousness and, 246;
idiosyncrasy for, 245;
persuasion as to, 248;
repugnance to, 246.
Egypt, psychotherapy in, 8.
Electric belts, 62.
Electric insoles, 63.
Electrical contrivances, 43.
Electricity, 5.
Electro-therapy, 5;
suggestion and, 42, 43.
Elijah returned, 82.
Elixir of life, 44.
Embryo-complexity, 466.
Emissions,
seminal, alcohol and, 478;
constipation and, 478;
full bladder and, 478;
nocturnal, 477;
prophylaxis in, 478;
spices and, 478.
Emotion, heart and, 311.
Emotions as remedies, 17.
Encyclopedia Brittanica on mummifies, 64.
Energy, reserve, 108;
law of, 92.
English, Dr. Thomas Dunn, on life, 724.
Environment, favorable, 188.
Epidaurus, 8.
Epidemic, suicidal, 691.
Epilepsy, 15;
anise seed for, 25;
attitude of mind in, 537;
Byron and, 536;
Caesar and, 536;
colony system and, 535;
cures for, 537;
dread of insanity in, 535;
emotion and, 535;
fright and, 535;
individual in, 536;
influence of suggestion in, 535;
mental "cures" of, 541;
Mohamed, 536;
Napoleon, 536;
neurotic simulation of, 536;
occupation in, 537;
operations for, 505, 535;
quiet life and, 537;
rings in, 61;
royal touch and, 79;
suggestion in, 25.
Equilibrium,
training in, 215;
unstable intestinal, 286.
Erasistratos, 11.
Erotic, 480.
Erysipelas, 3, 21.
Erythrophobia, 613.
Esophageal stricture, 676;
neurotic, 574.
Esophagus, constriction of the, 575.
Esquirol, on child suicide, 721.
Ether in telepathy, 142.
Euripides, 688.
Evacuation,
habitual, 273;
simulated, 285.
Evil, denial of, 776.
Evolution, Lucretius and, 776.
Excrement, goose and chicken, 34.
Excretions as remedies, 66.
Exercise, 198;
air and, 203;
for heart irregularity, 327;
for sake of exercise, 204-7;
fun and, 203;
graduated, for heart, 328;
in dyspepsia, 261;
in early years--English and German customs, 199;
interest and, 203;
mental diversion and, 207;
regulation of, 202;
sport and, 203;
sufficient, 199;
treatment for heart and, 328.
Exhaustion, mental, 138.
Exhibitionism, 490.
Exosmosis, 132.
Expectancy, mental, 46.
Expectoration, difficulty in, 210.
Expert in health, 179.
Expression and feeling, 101.
Extensors and hate, 194.
Extra-systole,
big beat and, 333;
conscious, 333;
long-pause, 333;
prognosis in, 333.
Eye,
oblique muscles of, 102;
superior recti of, 102.

F

Fabricius Hildanus, 54.
Facial expression and feeling, 101.
Faddists, fruit, milk-product and nut, 258.
Fads,
bathing, 167;
harmful, 166;
health and, 689.
Faith, 14, 15;
cures by, 61;
healing and, 196;
power of, 196.
Familiarity with drugs, 4.
_Fascia dentata neuroglia_, 120.
Fashion contagion, 690.
Fasting ages, 298.
Fat,
anemic, 298;
in sick hogs, 303;
lack of, 298;
useless, 201.
Father John of Cronstadt, 75.
Fats in constipation, 276.
Fatty vicious circle, 292.
Fearing the worst, 98.
Feeling, expression and, 101;
occupation and, 129.
Feelings, transferred, 251.
Feet above heart, 173.
Femero-coxalgia, 68.
Fere, 153.
Ferrier, Chancellor, 323.
Fever, afternoon, 180;
typhoid, 3.
Filaments, terminal, 117.
Fish, coloration practice in, 494.
Fissure, calcarine, 110.
Flammarion, 607.
Flashes of heat, 773.
Flatfoot, 174, 383;
circulation in, 419;
prevention of, 419;
relief for, 209;
runs in families, 390;
secondary consequences of, 420;
sprains and, 420.
Flatulence, 332.
Flaubert, 243.
Fletcher, 231.
Flexors and liking, 194.
Flourens, 543.
Fluid,
daily, 274;
ingestion of, 274;
in obesity, 296.
Folin, 231.
Food,
amount of, 273;
angle worms as, 244;
brains, liver and spleen as, 244;
caprice and, 266;
chewing, 260;
craving for, after operation, 763;
custom and, 244;
dislikes for, 245;
dyspepsia and, 301;
elimination of, 250;
idiosyncrasies and, 282, 301;
increase in, 273, 301;
natural residue of, 275;
preparation of, appetite and, 266;
reduction of, 296;
sleep and, 207;
temptations to, 293;
values and habits, 263.
Food faddists, 258.
Foot,
exercise for the, 420;
noises with the, 419.
Foot troubles,
deformities in all classes, 413;
mechanical factors in, 413;
rarer, 418;
significance of, 421;
unfavorable suggestions and, 415.
Force, vital, 133.
Ford Robertson, 110.
Forel, Prof., 190, 706.
Foreskin, long, 484.
Forgetfulness, limits of normal, 683.
Formulas, word, 566.
Fox hunting, 205.
Fractures,
after-effects of, 388;
immobilized, 388;
manipulation of, 388;
massage of, 388;
mind and, 751;
of the clavicle, 89.
Francis of Assisi, St., 74.
Francis Xavier, St., 74.
Frankenstein, 626.
Free will, 148, 152, 739;
argument for, 739;
individual, 741.
Frenkel's method for tabes, 528.
Frenkel's treatment, origin of, 528.
Frere, Robert 36.
Freud, 595.
Friedlaender on quackery at Rome, 58.
Fright,
epilepsy and, 535;
heart and, 315;
in chorea, 562;
in Graves' disease, 500;
in paralysis agitans, 542;
loss of bowel control and, 279;
tremors from, 581;
white hair and, 494.
Frights, forgotten, 625.
Fumigation, 60.
Fun and health, 203.

G

Galen, 12;
on proprietaries, 59.
Galen's theriac, 20, 46, 51, 59, 71.
Gallstones, 80.
Galton, Sir Francis, 36, 601, 606.
Galvani, 43.
Gambling, 182.
Garments, chamois, 168.
Gas, 15.
Gassner, 15, 153.
Gastralgia, tabetic, 526.
Gastric crisis, 526, 586.
Gastric dilatation, 330.
Gastric fauna, 462.
Gastric motility, 176, 307.
Gastric muscular tone, 262.
Gastric reflexes, 251.
Gastric secretion neuroses, 586.
Gastric self digestion, 303.
Gastric sensations, 306.
Generalization of visceral pain, 252.
Genitalia, over-attention to the, 430.
Genius, De Musset, 624;
Goethe, 624;
idiosyncrasies and, 245;
investigating, 130;
Kingsley, 624;
Montaigne, 624.
George Eliot, 135, 141.
Gerhardt, Prof., 317.
Ghosts, 605.
Gilbert, 42.
Gilles de la Tourette on tics, 564.
Ginseng, 35.
Giving up, 93.
Gladstone, 225.
Gladstone's chewing, 231.
Glands, intestinal, over-action of, 288.
Glycosuria,
alimentary, 496;
psychological, 291;
neurotic, 496.
Goclenius, 55.
Gold, chloride of, 61.
Goldsmith, 223.
Golgi, 110, 131.
Gordon Holmes, 151.
Gordy, Prof. J. P., 230.
Gould, Dr. George, 258, 601.
Gout and flatfoot, 415, 416;
rheumatic, 421.
Gowers, Sir William, 556.
Gowers' rule in writing, 396.
Grahamism, 256.
Grass scorpion, 35.
Grasset, 597.
Graves' disease,
cures of, 504;
diagnosis of, 502;
diarrhea and, 501;
diet and, 506;
diversion and, 506;
emaciation and, 501;
emotion and, 500;
etiology of, 500;
_formes frustes_ 500, 502;
fright and, 500;
genital incidents and, 501;
larval forms of, 341;
menopause and, 502;
mummy and, 504;
operations for, 505;
parathyroid and, 504;
prognosis in, 502;
responsibility and, 500;
serums and, 504;
sex incidents and, 501;
sleep and, 506;
snake skin and, 504;
suggestion and, 504;
sympathetic, 502;
symptomatology of, 501;
thyroid in, 469, 504;
thymus in, 469, 503;
touch of hanged in, 504;
women and, 501.
Gravitation, 41.
Greatrakes, 81, 153, 386.
Greece, decadence in, 107.
Grief,
Astley Cooper and, 731;
consolation in, 729;
Lord Lytton and, 731;
melancholia and, 727;
motives of consolation in, 728;
pathological, 727;
physical conditions in, 726;
prophylaxis in, 728;
Rossetti and, 732.
Grouch, perennial, 233.
Gymnasium director, 206.
Gymnastics, 181, 203.
Gynecology,
dominant ideas in, 432;
functional diseases in, 456;
mental factors in, 433;
mental healing in, 430;
reputed remedies in, 431;
self-control and, 433;
suggested factors in, 431.

H

Habit, 125;
appetite and, 265;
business occupation and, 178;
following chorea, 563;
formation of, 229;
in constipation, 273;
is second nature, 229;
non-inheritance of, 632;
saves reflection, 235.
Habits,
air and exercise, change of, 232;
bolting, 231;
law of, 230;
mental, 233;
physical, 231;
sexual, 482.
Hack Tuke, Dr., 190;
on warts, 493.
"Hacks," 361.
Hahnemann, 41.
Haldane, Prof., 132.
Hallucinations, 78, 141, 603, 773;
auditory, 609, 773;
cocaine, 773;
disturbing, 611;
dreams and, 606;
explanation of, 607;
frequency of, 604;
insanity and, 609;
significance of, 604;
statistics of, 605;
telepathic, 605;
touch, 773;
visual, 604.
Head,
discomfort in, local, 552;
over-attention to the, 547;
raising the, 210.
Headache, 59;
air and, 554;
anemic, 553;
at Epidaurus, 554;
attention, 547;
coffee and, 553;
congestion, 549, 551;
cures for, 546;
direct mental treatment of, 553;
distraction and, 548;
drugs and, 553;
exercise and, 554;
extraneous, 550;
eye strain and, 550;
fear of brain lesion and, 549;
frequency of, 546;
lack of distraction and, 548;
local conditions and, 550;
loss of meal and, 551;
mental treatment for, place of, 554;
mental work and, 550;
occipital, 552;
occupation of mind and, 546;
sense of pressure in, 547;
source of pain in, 549;
spirits and, 553;
tea and, 553;
tenderness and, 552;
weight and, 553.
Head's studies in sensation, 252.
Healers of the nineteenth century, 81.
Healing, irregular mental, 209.
Health,
central nervous system and, 191;
good, and happiness, 234;
muscle development and, 200;
thinking, 99.
Health resort, 184.
Hearing, training of the, 686.
Heart,
action of, after dancing, 324;
action of, after Marathon, 324;
action of, irregularity of, 322, 323;
anxiety about the, 311;
arrhythmia of the, 322;
athletes', 324;
coffee and the, 329;
crowding of the, 323;
cures, faith, and the, 312;
defects of the, and quiet lives, 316;
difficulties of the, 319;
emotion and old physiology of, 311;
fatty, and exercise, 326;
fright and the, 315;
functional affections of the, 321;
gastric influence on the, 334;
general condition and the, 318;
German and Irish schools on the, 318;
Indian fakirs and the, 311;
in difficulties, 322;
individual and the, 317;
inhibition of action of the, 313;
introspection and the, 327;
irregularity of, not to be treated, 327;
irritable, 324;
limitation of diet and the, 335;
listening to the, 317;
meat-eating and the, 335;
mental influence on the, 310;
missed beats of the, 322;
muscular, 322;
nervous, Morgagni and Lancisi on, 331;
nervous system and the, 311;
occupation of mind and the, 320;
palpitation of the, 322;
physiological work for the, 326;
reassurance and the, 334;
remedies and suggestion and the, 312;
shock and the, 314;
sorrow and the, 315;
sounds, impure, in the, 324;
stimulants and the, 326;
stomach distension upward, effect of, upon the, 330;
stomach gas and the, 329;
suffering and the, 332;
surveillance over the, 322;
sympathetic, 319;
taking, 312;
tea and the, 329;
therapy of the, psychic factors in, 315;
tobacco and the, 329;
training, 216, 326;
trouble of the, consciousness of, 312;
vaso-motors and the, 319;
voluntary inhibition of action of the, 314.
Heart disease,
consumption and, 321;
declaration of, 321;
diagnosis in latent, 316;
exaggeration of seriousness in, 317;
mental influence and, 311;
prognosis in, 315, 316, 332;
prophylaxis in, 315;
symptoms of, in the young, 321;
symptoms of, neglect of, 320;
symptoms of, simulated, 319;
symptoms of, subjective, 321.
Heart failure, 334, 341.
Heart murmurs,
significance of, 317;
uncertainty of, 318.

Heberden's nodes,
causes of, 422;
longevity and, 423;
progress of, 423;
solicitude over, 423.
Heels, high, 410.
Hell, Father, mental influence practised by, 153.
Hemorrhage,
cough and, 346;
mind and, 360.
Hen hypnotization, 160.
Herbal medicine and mental influence, 140.
Hereditary resistance, 712.
Hereditary syphilis, 629.
Hereditary tuberculosis, 629.
Heredity, alcoholism and, 629;
disease and, 628;
drug habits and, 712;
false impressions concerning, 627;
habits and, 632;
Hapsburg lip, instance of, 632;
mystery of, 633;
resistance and, 352;
principles of, 699;
suggestion and, 251;
tuberculosis and, 628;
variation and, 633.
Hermaphrodites, partial, 489.
Hermaphroditism, mental, 490.
Herophilus, 11.
Herpes and mind, 492.
Hertz, Arthur, 270.
_Hexenschuss_, 391.
Hildanus, 54.
Hilprecht's sleep vision, 137.
Hilton on Rest and Pain, 52, 188.
Hippocrates, 10, 71;
on astrology, 38.
Hives and diarrhea, 281.
Hobbies, 224;
Virchow on, 226.
Hobby, 601.
Hog's meat, 243.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 4, 48, 50, 54, 56, 311.
Home work, 182.
Homo-sexuality, 490.
Hook-worm,
in Egypt, 107;
in Porto Rico, 107;
in the South, 107.
Hope, renewal of, 91.
Horace, 223.
Horseback riding, 204.
Horse, outside of a, the, 204.
Hospitals,
mind and, 747;
psychic conditions of, 760.
Hours of diversion, 182.
Hudson, 251.
Humor, 105.
Hunger and sleep, 665.
Hunter, John, 17.
Hunyadi Janos, 278.
Hydrophobia, 613.
Hydrotherapy, 5.
Hygiene, personal, 178.
_Hyperemesis gravidarum_, 457;
postanesthetic, 758.
Hypersecretion, gastric, 586.
Hypnoidal state, 198, 626.
Hypnosis, anesthetic, 755;
animal, 160;
of self, 161.
Hypnotism,
accessories in, 155;
Danger and Uses of, 162;
drugs in, 156;
effects of, 152;
essence of, 152;
explanation of, 118;
for exhibitions, 162;
influence of, 76, 111;
in obstetrics, 458;
lights in, 155;
miracles of, 152;
mystery of, 151;
not mysterious, 158;
practice of, 156;
sensations of, 156;
sound in, 156;
stroking in, 156;
susceptibility to, 159;
three stages of, 158;
valuation of, 152;
uses of, 162.
Hypnotizers,
Bernheim, 154;
Braid, 154;
De Puysegur, 154;
Liebault, 154;
Mesmer, 154.
Hypochondria, 287.
Hypochondriac, 94;
sympathy with the, 335.
Hypochondriac organs, 335.
Hypochondriorum, _ex consensu_, 331.
Hypothesis,
Duval's, for brain mechanism, 123;
Ramon y Cajal's, for brain mechanism, 127;
for sympathetic system, 127.
Hysteria, 80, 585, 590;
dual personality and, 149;
organic change and, 190;
secondary personality and, 149.
Hysterical cutaneous conditions, 495.
Hystero-epilepsy, 538, 626.

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Idea,
single, 195;
tends to action, 194.
Ideas,
dominant, 97, 239;
body and, 195.
Idiosyncrasies,
food, 282;
genuine food, 245;
individual and heat, 329;
intestinal, 282;
physiological, 231.
I-Em-Hetep, 7, 71.
Ignatius Loyola, St., 102.
Ills,
imaginary, 191;
not fancied, 191.
Illusions, 603, 764;
delusions, hallucinations and, 773;
in connection with dots, 776;
in connection with a tube, 764;
of distance, 769;
of size, 769, 770;
of the sun and moon, 768;
optical, 770;
universal, 764.
Image, wax, and distant effects, 141.
Imaginary ills, 191.
Imagination, 14, 15.
Immunity,
acquired, 358;
inborn, 358;
lack of, 108;
maternal, in syphilis, 629;
of nursling, 461.
Impedimenta, 201.
Impotence,
organic, 476;
psychic, 475.
Impotency obsession, 476.
Impressions, mental, 346.
Incisions and suggestion, 752.
Incubation, 554, 669.
Incurable, care of the, 223.
Incurable disease, relieving, 510.
Incurability, so-called, 48.
Indigestion,
above the neck, 257;
auto-suggestive, 250;
cancer, latent, and, 255;
correction of, 259;
depression and, 233;
differentiation of, 254;
diversion of mind and, 258;
dread of, 305, 306;
early tuberculosis and, 255;
lack of sleep and, 254;
neurotic, 169;
prevention of, 259;
unfavorable states of mind and, 250.
Individuality, 133.
Individuals, human, 224.
Infections, mental, 753.
Influence,
malign, 141;
of the mind, 2, 84;
of the stars, 39;
telepathic, 141.
Inheritance of defects, 632.
Inhibition, 46;
cardiac, 313;
menstrual, lack of, 434;
nervous, 87.
Injuries,
old and painful, 387;
unconscious, 85.
Insane, cunning of the, 743.
Insanity,
dread of, 623;
genius and, 536;
hallucinations in, 609;
Perkinean, 49;
plea of, 742;
religious, 777;
self abuse and, 484.
Insomnia, 125;
coffee and, 659;
cold and, 656;
cold bath and, 658;
cold feet and, 656;
diet and, 659;
direct suggestions and, 660;
dread of, 651;
drugs and, 654;
encyclopedia reading and, 662;
evening hours and, 660;
food before retiring and, 659;
hot foot bath and, 657;
Jacinth and, 37;
lack of air and, 657;
lack of occupation and, 644;
not serious, 651;
persuasion of, 651;
pillow and, 655, 656;
sea voyage and, 658;
solicitude about, 654;
suggestion and, 654;
tea and, 659.
Inspiration, 135.
Instinct,
appetite and, 264;
disturbed, 267;
not theory, 256.
Interest,
human, 206;
in others, 221.
Intestinal control, 280.
Intestinal tolerance, 271.
Intestinal unrest, 255.
Intestine, 269.
Introspection, morbid, 302.
Invalids by profession, 184.
Irish school on heart, 318.
Irregularity,
functional, of the heart, 327;
myocardial, 327.
Irresponsibility, 744.

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Jacinth for sleep, 37. James, Prof., 16, 92. Janet, 597. Jew's ear, 35. John of Cronstadt, 75. Johnson, Samuel, 80. Joint affections, position in, 212. Joint conditions, differentiation of, 381; hysterical, 239; hysterical, frequency of, 387; neurotic, frequency of, 386; old, injured, and dampness, 387; painful, 379. Joy and pleasure, 104.

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Ka (Egyptian soul), 9. Kaltenbach, 456. Keller, Helen, 214, 234. Kepler and astrology, 39, 41. Khou (Egyptian mind), 9. Kidney, abnormal fixity of, 307; backache and, 308; calculus of, 80; floating, operation for, 308; loose, 302; movable, 307; movable, mechanical treatment for, 308; movable, weight, and, 297, 308; of pregnancy, 307; position of calculus in, 209. Kidneywort, 35. King, Prof., on natural obstetrics, 459. King's evil, 79, 81. King's touch, 748. Kircher, S. J., Father, 42, 160. Knee, after loose cartilage, 412; foot troubles and the, 410; high heels and the, 410; hip and the, 410; housemaid's, 39; lumbar discomfort and the, 411; muscle disuse and the, 412; unusual occupations affecting the, 410. Knee jerk, 556. Kneipp, Father, on hydrotherapy and psychotherapy, 72. Kneipp societies, 73. Know, I do not, 466. Kocher, 505. Korsakoff's psychosis, 687. Krafft-Ebing, 631. Kronecker, 269. Kronig, 456.

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Labor, at the ninth month, 454; delayed, suggestion and, 454; natural, 459; patient helps, 459; postures after, 459. Labouchere, 147. Lachesis, snake venom, 66. Laennec pearls in asthma, 364. Lancisi, 17, 331. Lapax, Indian chorea, 688. Larrey, Baron, 68. Lauder Brunton, on inhibition, 313. Laugh and grow fat, 297. Laughing, diaphragm and, 105. Laughing cure, 104. Laughter, hearty, effect of, 297. Law of avalanche, 111. Laxatives, abuse of, 287. Layer, plexiform cerebral, 126. Lead in muscle aches, 398; poisoning from, 172. Learn, by heart, 223; failure to, 129. Leg exercises in constipation, 277. Legs, inequality of, 410 Leisure, use of, 181. Leisure classes, 184. Letters, cross, 140. Leyden jar, 42; "cures" by the, 42; effects of the, 42; suggestion and the, 42. Lichen, anise seed in, 25; snakes in, 25. Liebault on hypnotism, 407. Life, aimless, 220; and death, 89; dangerous, 512; intellectual, 125, 134, 302; interests in, 169; natural, 267; out-of-door, 358; persuasion of short, 636; principle of, 191; regulation of, 220; worth living, 722. Light, and psychotherapy, 44; in hypnotism, 155; lack of, 173. Lightning, fear of, 612. Lincoln's steamboat, 253. Liniments, suggestion with, 29, 393. Liquor problem, scientific solution of the, 701. Literature and life, 648. Lithemia, 380. Litton's diaphragm phenomenon, 361. Liver, business and the, 253; gastric symptoms from the, 177. Liverwort, 35. Lloyd Tuckey on mental influence, 156. Lobe, occipital, 116. Local anaesthesia, personality of operator and, 758. Locomotor ataxia, 524. Lombroso, 88, 130. Longevity and delicate health, 202. Looking forward, 183. Looking up, 102. Lord Bacon, 54. Lord Kelvin on the Creator, 730. Louis', grief, 732. Love, Greek, 482. Lowell, James Russell, 649. Lucas Malet on maternal impressions, 221. Lucian on warts, 493. Lucretius' pessimism, 776; evolution and, 776. Lumbago, 402; adhesive plaster for, 407; cautery and, 408; electric equilibrium in, 408; etiology of, 404; hypnotism in, 407; paper on loins and, 407; piles and, 403; seminal vesicles and, 403. Lunar caustic, 36. Lunch, hurried, 171; women's, 180. Luncheon, in Vienna, 179. Luncheon clubs, 180. Lung at rest, 361. Lungs not laboratories, 132. Lytton, Sir Robert Bulwer, 648; grief and, 731.

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