Three thousand years of mental healing / by George Barton Cutten.

  • George Barton Cutten
Date:
1910
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Credit: Three thousand years of mental healing / by George Barton Cutten. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    among the vulgar that it is a certain cure for such a disorder. The executioner, having untied the Doctor’s hand, stroked the part affected several times therewith.” At the execution of Crowley, a murderer of War- wick, in 1845, a similar scene is described in the newspapers: ^^At least five thousand persons of the lowest of the low were mustered on this occasion to witness the dying moments of the unhappy culprit. ... As is usual in such cases (to their shame be it spoken) a number of females were present, and scarcely had the soul of the deceased taken its fare- well fiight from its earthly tabernacle, than the scaffold was crowded with members of the ^gentler sex’ afflicted with wens in the neck, with white swellings in the knees, &c., upon whose afflictions the cold clammy hand of the sufferer was passed to and fro for the benefit of his executioner.” ^ Whooping-Cough,—It was a common belief in Devonshire, Cornwall, and some other parts of England, that if one inquired of any one riding on a piebald horse of a remedy for this complaint, what- ever he named was regarded as an infallible cure. In Suffolk and Norfolk, a favorite remedy was to put the head of a suffering child for a few minutes into a hole made in a meadow. It must be done in the evening with only the father and mother to witness it.
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