Nerves in disorder : a plea for rational treatment / by Alfred T. Schofield.

  • Schofield, A. T. (Alfred Taylor), 1846-1929
Date:
[1927?]
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Credit: Nerves in disorder : a plea for rational treatment / by Alfred T. Schofield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sickness and Death from Mind Action Dr. Dureaud reports a certain unjustifiable experiment on a hundred hospital patients, to whom sugar-and-water was given; and it was afterwards pretended that it was an emetic administered in mistake. No less than eighty out of the hundred became sick. A gentleman, led to believe (by a lie) that he had slept in a bed where a man had died of cholera, developed through fear symptoms of the disease, and died. Perhaps these cases will be sufficient to indicate to the reader something of the power the mind can exercise over the body, and to help him to understand the great part it must play in the cure of diseases of functional nervous origin, which are so closely connected with it. Before leaving this subject let me give a warning against the modern Psycho¬ analysis. This, which has an honourable origin, has been so largely degraded by practitioners, more or less incompetent, as to acquire a very doubtful reputation, and cannot be recommended as a safe form, in any respect, of mental therapeutics.