On Superstitions Connected With the History And Practice of Medicine And Surgery
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Iv. , p. 100, ) and clearly proves that it remained with the operator either to produce ease or to in- flict sufiering, according to the manner he pleased to exercise with his patient, through the means of the imagination. 144 INFLUENCE OF THE MIND were unable to lift up, or to use their arms in any way, were, after the application of the sup- posed metallic tractors, speedily enabled to carry coals, and other matters of considerable weight, with comparative ease. The results attending these ca...ses were so remarkable, that nothing short of their having been publicly done and at- tested by witnesses of unimpeachable veracity could satisfy one of their truth. The cases recorded by Dr. Haygarth* go far to explain how miraculous cures are to be ascribed to empirical remedies; many of which are composed of substances most inert in their nature, ^t is the confidence of the quack and the hope of the patient which work the cure. . Disease is well known to depress the powers of the understandinof as well as the vigour of the muscular system, and will also deprave the judgment as well as the digestion, '--h- sick person is, in particular, extremely credulous about the object of his hopes and fears.
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