A handbook of suggestive therapeutics, applied hypnotism, psychic science / by Henry S. Munro.

  • Munro, Henry S. (Henry Sumner), 1869-
Date:
1907
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Credit: A handbook of suggestive therapeutics, applied hypnotism, psychic science / by Henry S. Munro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    be well and happy, which is our highest privilege, and not before. It is often the case that our patients need education and en- couragement, knowledge and guidance—other names for sug- gestion—and not medicine or sympathy, which only fixes them deeper in the mire; but there are some who are called physicians who have not the courage to attempt to make use of these thera- peutic measures. Why let Christian Scientists, osteopaths and other species of charlatanism thrive upon a large class of cases when, if we were but equipped in this higher art in therapeutics, we could day by day infuse health and happiness, joy and sunshine, into the lives of weak, erring, miserable children of this world who are crying to us for help. Our patients are not merely chemical laboratories, but human beings with intelligent faculties to com- prehend our suggestions that act upon every part of the body through the nervous centers. If properly presented they will regulate all perverted functions in perfect accord with the physi- ological processes of the body. Man is not a machine, but a living organism. The unseen part of man, mind, spirit or soul, constitute the dynamics of this human organism and they constitute the great- est therapeutic factor at our command, ever present and ready for utilization.