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

  • Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
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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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    El te rae stan and Siti gis titOn is it less a cure than one effected by iron or quinine? Is not this faith a real power? May it not, without quackery, serve in place of a physical method? ‘This power of self- delusion, capable of such wonderful effects, should one not rather desire to awaken it and to possess it for one’s own welfare? To point out how far that be possible, how faith can be learned — that is the purpose to which this book is to contribute. My expressions are tentative. For the larger part of the as- similation of any doctrine that is to be trans- lated into the actual practice of life, must be left with the individual himself. I have sought to be, in the best sense of the word, popular. A genuine appeal of this kind does not degrade the writer to a vulgar level; it exalts the general understanding to his own. The purpose of my frequent quotations of the words of eminent men is to exhibit the unanimity of sentiment which the subject of this treatise has always enjoyed among minds [18 ]