The temple : concerning diseases of the brain and nerves; with full directions for their treatment and cure / by Andrew Jackson Davis.

  • Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910.
Date:
1871
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The temple : concerning diseases of the brain and nerves; with full directions for their treatment and cure / by Andrew Jackson Davis. 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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    sences and vitalic forces, which, taken altogether, con- stitute what 1 have defined under the title of Soul. Herein we discover the sources of all possible physi- cal pain, the seat of all imaginable, diseases, the foun- tain of all inherited evils and propensities, and the very root and branch of every and all known forms of insanity. The vital forces, composed of ethers and essences—which are the constituents of the spiritual body that is to be—are the source of all mental and material derangements; and the fluids and solids—■ which are the constituents of the physical body that now is—are the passive recipients of these same mental and material perturbations; and thus, upon the recog- nized principle that life within and without is a con- nected chain of countless sympathetic links, the supe- rior parts of the brain and its divine guest simulta- neously realize the prevailing special or constitutional disturbance. '' We are not ourselves when nature, being oppressed, Commands the mind to suffer with the body. The master-poet of the mother country uttered many words of inspiration true to the Infinite Heart. Did he not recognize our Harmonial Philosophy of insanity in the foregoing? And into the mouth of King Leai