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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![when a laparotomy is performed success¬ fully on a hysterical patient. When employing physical means we can never exclude a psychical effect, and, con¬ versely, we can never exclude a “ physi¬ cal effect ” when employing “ psychi¬ cal ” means. If we give an enema, we are working on a low physical level ; but we admit a psychical effect, as possible. If I say Abracadabra three times over, most people would say that I am only employing psychical means, and can therefore only hope for a psychical effect. Yet I am physically stimulating the auditory tract and its connections, just as definitely as does my friend who gives an enema so stimulate the rectum and its sympa¬ thetic and spinal connections. Merit, as between the materialists and the spiritualists, then, so far as pragmatic values are concerned, seems to be almost six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. This is perhaps why, in medicine, the third metaphysical school is so popular. This is the school of the dualists who find two substances, mind [27 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
