Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease : designed to elucidate the action of the imagination / by Daniel Hack Tuke.

  • Daniel Hack Tuke
Date:
1872
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Credit: Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease : designed to elucidate the action of the imagination / by Daniel Hack Tuke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    under a hard cushion hit. The compartment was soon seen to be sprinkled with the blood of a hapless victim whose face had come into crushing contact with it. The rest of this part of the paper was unfortunately wanting, but I leartit from other sources that, as the heading intimated, the patient was cured of his rheumatism. The remarks which this circumstance elicited from the press (general and medical) led me to think that the whole subject of the influence of the Mind upon the Body, deserves more serious and systematic consideration than it has received. In forwarding soon after to the ' Journal of Mental Science'* a paper bearing the title of the present work, I observed, It is now some time since I endea- voured to formularise the generally admitted facts of physiology and psychology so far as they bear on this question, and to collect from the sources at my command all authenticated facts illustrative of this influence. Dissatisfied with my work I laid my cases aside. Judging, however, from the remarks made, that imperfect as these cases are they may be of some service, I conclude to forward them to the Journal of the Asso- ciation. The objects of the following pages may be thus stated : 1. To collect together in one volume authentic Illustrations of the influence of the Mind upon the Body, scattered through various medical and other works, however familiar to many these cases may be, supplemented by those falling within my own knowledge. 2. To give these cases fresh interest and value by arranging them on a definite physiological basis. 3. To show the power and extent of this influence not only in health in causing Disorders of Sensation, Motion, and the * About 190 pages liave appeared in that Journal. The cliapters already pub- lished have been much extended, and Part IV, treating of the luHuence of the Mind upon Disease, is in common with several chapters, entirely new.
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