Illustrations of the Influence of the Mind Upon the Body in Health and Disease, Designed to Elucidate the Action of the Imagination, Volum 2

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J. & A. Churchill, 1884
 

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Pàgina 148 - ... but could not, by the nicest scrutiny, discover the least symptom of life in him. We reasoned a long time about this odd appearance as well as we could, and...
Pàgina 54 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Pàgina 43 - DAUGHTER to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council and her Treasury, Who lived in both unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent...
Pàgina 170 - The English Ambassador's lady, who was a woman far from superstition, told me one day she would help me away with my warts: whereupon she got a piece of lard, with the skin on, and rubbed the warts all over with the fat side...
Pàgina 196 - The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill. Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.
Pàgina 170 - The success was, that within five weeks' space all the warts went quite away : and that wart which I had so long endured, for company. But at the rest I did little marvel, because they came in a short time, and might go away in a short time again : but the going away of that which had stayed so long doth yet stick with me.
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Pàgina 170 - The success was, that within five weeks' space, all the warts went quite away : and that wart, which I had so long endured, for company ; but at the rest I did little marvel, because they came in a short time and, might go away in a short time again, but the going of that which had stayed so long doth yet stick with me.
Pàgina 231 - From this state of the most profound torpor of the organs of special sense and tonic rigidity of the muscles, they may at this stage instantly be restored to the opposite condition of extreme mobility and exalted sensibility by directing a current of air against the organ or organs we wish to excite to action, or the muscles we wish to render limber, and which had been in the cataleptiform state.
Pàgina 30 - ... iron gate. She saw that he let go the gate after opening it, and that it seemed likely to close upon him, and concluded that it would do so with such force as to crush his ankle ; however, this did not happen. 'It was impossible...

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