Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank.
- Francis Graham Crookshank
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![added was, very frequently, a demon, lo-day, this ‘something added’ is often something no less elusive and fictitious . a toxin that no chemist can identify : a filter-passer that no micioscopist can see. Rut, when a patient is constipated, a dose of castor oil or calomel is as efficacious, whether we give it with the intention to expel a demon or to eliminate a poison. Now, although we no longer believe in demons, official views in England con¬ cerning disease are still of a peculiar ordei : they are partly materialistic, and partly derived from the discarded metaphysics of scholastic realists. ‘ A ’ disease is officially something real, something to be studied as an objec¬ tive entity : different diseases are said to be different kinds of natural objects, that can be studied in the same way as lions and tigers, postage stamps and coins, Conservatives and Socialists. 1 his sort of talk, once current in Science, when Laws were supposed to govern the universe, and Forces like gravity to keep the heavenly bodies [20 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
