On certain conditions of nervous derangement : somnambulism--hypnotism--hysteria--hysteriod affections, etc / by William A. Hammond.

  • Hammond, William A. (William Alexander), 1828-1900.
Date:
1883
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Credit: On certain conditions of nervous derangement : somnambulism--hypnotism--hysteria--hysteriod affections, etc / by William A. Hammond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. A book,* published in 1876, having for the last two years been out of print, I have taken the opportunity afforded by the demand for a new edition—which would long ago have been complied with but for the stress of other engagements—to thoroughly revise the work, and while adding largely to the subjects now con- sidered, to make it more homogeneous by omitting everything specially relating to spiritualism. The interesting conditions of which the present vol- ume treats are being very attentively studied both in this country and in Europe, and ought to be brought to the knowledge of the general reader. They are the fields upon which the miracle-worker expends his most energetic labor, for he knows something of the forms under which they are manifested, and he also knows that by making adroit use of them he can deceive thousands of innocent but ignorant people to his own advantage, and that of any system which requires miracles for its establishment or aggrandizement. As a knowledge of the conditions in question be- comes more diffused, the ability to work miracles will be correspondingly diminished, and in the hope of con- tributing to these ends this little book is written. New York, yan. r, 1881. * Spiritualism and Other Causes and Conditions of Nervous Derange- ment. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1876.