Hypnotism as a therapeutic agent : a paper read by request at the twenty-third session of the Virginia State Medical Society, September 13th, 14th and 15th, 1892 / by William Lee Howard.

  • Howard, William Lee, 1860-1918
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1893
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Credit: Hypnotism as a therapeutic agent : a paper read by request at the twenty-third session of the Virginia State Medical Society, September 13th, 14th and 15th, 1892 / by William Lee Howard. 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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    would cover over a period of several more years study, I have made this tentative effort, hoping that the interest aroused would re- dound to the future knowledge and benefit of both reader and author. Great gaps in conclusive facts will be noticed, because the writer does not feel justified in going beyond his own deductions derived from experience. If the reception of these few pages is such as to attract the attention of our progressive profession, the author will feel justified in placing a more pretentious paper before the public. In the following pages I have given Prof. Gower's, P. R. C. S.. explanation of the phe- nomena of hypnotism. It is but just to give another explanation here. Prof. Rudolf Haidenhain, of the University of Breslau, attempts to explain most of the phenomena by the physiological doctrine of inhibitory nerve action. While I admit that most of the phenomena can be explained physiologically, there remains a mass of facts which cannot be explained with our present uncertain knowledge of physiology. In view of this admission I will give a few of Haidenhain's
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