Health and suggestion : the dialectics of the mind / by Ernst von Feudhtersleben ; translated and edited by Ludwig Lewisohn.

  • Feuchtersleben, Ernst, Freiherr von, 1806-1849.
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1919, ©1910
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Credit: Health and suggestion : the dialectics of the mind / by Ernst von Feudhtersleben ; translated and edited by Ludwig Lewisohn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ples are adduced in which similar results were gained by the physician’s wise forethought. Nor is this all. I ventured to attribute to the spirit power even over life and death. And I can quote at least one authenticated case where that power was exercised. It is given in the Austrian Medical Year-books (XIV.4.) according to the relation of the British physi- cian, Dr. Cheyne. The case is that of a certain Colonel Townshend who, at will, lay down and suspended all signs of life. His pulse ceased beating; a mirror held be- fore his face recorded no respiration. Half an hour later his heart would begin to beat, his pulse to throb, his breath to come and go. Ina short while he would converse with the attendant physicians.— But we desire, at this point, not to multiply proof, but to re- capitulate. The belief in the healing power of the soul once thoroughly established, the next step for the individual must be to learn to regard him- self objectively. A difficult problem! For Lis7.]