Homo-culture, or, The improvement of offspring through wiser generation / by M.L. Holbrook.

  • Holbrook, M. L. (Martin Luther), 1831-1902
Date:
1899
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Credit: Homo-culture, or, The improvement of offspring through wiser generation / by M.L. Holbrook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    followed this precedent. Information has been furnished me by special request by Mr. James Dean, of Victoria, B. C., bearing on this j^oint. He writes: “Among the children the mortality seems to be greater with the tribes which flatten the heads of their children than in those who do not, I have long noticed that there is a very marked intellectual difference between them.” The Hidery tribes of Northern British Columbia and Southern Alaska, who never flattened their heads, have long been famous for their works of art, such as elaborate carvings in wood and stone. Suggestion as an Aid in the Training of Children. Within a few years an old subject, that of hypnotism, formerly called mesmerism, has received new attention under the name of suggestion, or, in medical language, “suggestive therapeutics.” It was used in a rude way by Mesmer in the cure of disease. Later it was employed much more effectively by Braid and others for the same purpose, and especially for the prevention of pain in sur- gical operations. Want of space forbids our going into any extended historical detail as to its application for these purposes, but a few points will be considered, which bear on the subject. It was found that when a person had contracted a bad habit, as, for instance, smoking or drinking, it could often be broken up by placing him in the mesmeric sleep, and