Volume 2

Primitive psycho-therapy and quackery.

  • Robert Means Lawrence
Date:
1910
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Primitive psycho-therapy and quackery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Abracadabra, 126. Amulets, 5, 6, 14, 60-62, 138. Ancient Irish physicians, 12, 13, 40. Ancient medical prescriptions, 155- 164. Angel of gold, 83, 85. Animal magnetism, 143-154. Animals, effect of music upon, 176, 177, 180. Atharva-Veda, 133. Auto-suggestion, 217, 231. Blue-glass mania, 93-96. Chaldean medical amulets, 112. Charlatans, 201-238. Charms, 6, 9, 122-123,125. Christian Science, 53-55. Correspondence between Christ and King Abgar, 35-37. Curative spells, 41, 42, 45. Demonology, the doctrine of, 209, 210. Demons of disease, 206. Devil, the, 205-211. Divination, 117. Dreams, the interpretation of, 98. Druids, the, 12,13, 75, 129. Edible letters, 50. Edible prescriptions, 51. Egyptian medicine, 117-120. Ephesian letters, 128-129. Fairy-women, 13, 109. Grigris, 45. Healing by manual stroking, 76. Healing-spells, 111-134, 138. Hydro-therapy, 97, 101. Hypnotism, 153, 154. Imagination, the curative power of, 53- 72, 145, 151. Incantations, 9, 39, 47, 109, 113, 114, 134, 205. Incubation, 101-104. Intermittent fever, remarkable cure for, 331, 132. King’s Evil, 73-92. Kneipp cure, 53. Laying on of hands, 73-92. Magical healing formulas, 10, 11, 13, 26. Mantras, 37, 60. Medical amulets, 3, 9, 15, 17. Medicine, irregular practitioners of, 243-272. Medieval physicians, 14. Mesmerism, 146-151. Metallic tractors, 139. Metallo-therapy, 139-142. Music, as a cure for tarantism, 197- 200; as a medicine, 189; at banquets, 180-184; at hospitals, 193; distaste¬ ful to some persons, 186; healing influence of, 172-200. New York City, quackery in, 237. Oracles, 88, 89.
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