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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    ‘Rarely or almost never,” says Bulwer, “will disease fasten itself upon us in youth unless we ourselves dwell upon it and invite it. One sees men of the most delicate con- stitutions who, amid the imperious claims of their calling, have no time to be ill. Let them be idle, let them begin to brood, and they die. Rust corrodes only the unused steel. And even if that were not so; if activ- ity and sloth were subject to the same evils, yet the former can more readily escape them or at least offer a nobler consolation.”’ But I must not let the agreement of an admirable writer persuade me to promise more than I can perform. My concern so far has been merely an empirical corroboration of the fact that the spirit has power to ward off the in- fluences of disease. In the pursuit of that end I have said too much rather than too little. [37]