Metanoia : a plea for the insane / by Henry M'Cormac.

  • M'Cormac, Henry, 1800-1886.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Metanoia : a plea for the insane / by Henry M'Cormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    By the same Author, Price Os. Gd. A SPIRATIONS FROM THE INNER THE SPIRITUAL LIFE, by Henby A M'Cormac, M.D. London: Longman, Green, & Co. “There is much in the volume to instruct and delight..”—Spectator, Feb. 4, 1860. “As separate thoughts it would be hard to bestow too much praise for their humanity, religiousness, beauty, fine philosophy, and select learning.”—Patriot. “ Breathes in every page a truly catholic and pious spirit.”—Saunders's News-Letter. “ Gestiitzt auf eine reiche Literatur-kenntniss, giebt derVerfasser die innersten Ueberzeugungen seiner Seele. Lias Buch empfiehlt sich zu ernster Beschaulicbkeit und fur Stunden pbilosophischen Nachdenkens.”—Hamburger Nachricliten. “A grand and noble book, one full of great, tender thoughts.—London Freeman. “ The full fresh utterance of a catholic soul. It’s effect must be to nourish that Catholicism of heart which is our divinest condition. The volume is totally untainted by sentimentality, affectation, and cant.”—Critic, January 28,1860. “ The author pours forth his treasures with a liberal hand. Every section, is a portlet opening into the grand temple filled and illumined by the one God.”—Inquirer. “ In this work of a well-known physician, his contemplations on the spiritual and moral nature of man will possess a peculiar interest.”—John Bull, April 14, 1860. “ Awarding the meed of praise to all who have scattered seeds of paradise among their kind, the author clothes himself with a living fame. He has given us that thing of beauty, a noble book, in truth a possession for ever.”—Belfast Mercury. “Each piece is a jewel of its kind.”—Clerical Journal, April 24, 1860. “The idea of the Spiritual Life here unfolded is not ODly fresh and beautiful, but broad and catholic.”—Dunfermline Press, February 14,1861. “ Deeply religious. There is a depth of sympathy and a hopeful faith, which show that the author is one in spirit with the saints of every creed.”—Morning Star. Dr. M‘Cobmac has expressed many of the deepest, truest aspirings of men.”— Scottish Press, May 2. “ These fragments are all consistent. Their object throughout is to liberalise opinion, harmonise feeling, and exalt the spiritual above the material in man.”— Morning Post, April 7. “Full of affection for human kind, and piety to the great Author of all.”—West- minster Review. “In his attempts to combine the truths of philosophy and religion, the author is peculiarly felicitous. The work has not a tinge of cant or bigotry.”—Journal of Men- tal Science. By the same Author, Price 3s. Gd. ON THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION AND SCROFULA. “ Dr. M'Cormac’s theory is simple and ingenious, and quite consistent with the phenomena of the disease.”—Med. Times and Gaz., December 18, 1858. “ This is the very latest work on the subject in Great Britain, and we hazard little in saying that it is the best in the English language.”—Reese's American Med. Gaz. “ Ein mit grosser Gelehrsamkeit geschriebenes Werk. Die empirischen Beweise eine grosse Beachtung Verdienen.”—Virchow Archiv. XI. “ Die Kapitel ueber Aetiologie und Prophylaxie entbalten die wichtigsten Bemerkungen.”—Id., XV. “ Der Verfasser bemerkt dass er Schwindsucht und Scrofeln, ihren ganzen Wesen nach, f Ur eine Krankheit halte, so dass er jene innere, diese atissere Tuberkel nennt.” Preface to the German translation, by Dr. E. Hoffman, of Dr. M'Cormac’s Work, Natur, Bchandlung, und Verhiitung der Lungenschwindsuclit, Erlangen, 1858. “A la suite de faction impart'aite de la function respiratoire, sujet sur lequel M. M‘Cormae a fait une longue serie d’observations et d'experiences, des mati&res carbondes s’accumulent dans le sang, et transformees en substance tubereuleuse, se deposent dans les tissus.”—L'Union Medicate, 15 Mai, 1858. “ Cette doctrine donne necessairement droit a la ddcouverte de la vrai cause du tubercule, et du seul traiteraent rationnel de la maladie.”—Gazette desHdpitaux.