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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    endured, in the order in which the science of each was taught, fever and inflammation and nervous weakness, he finally gave up a course of study that had brought him to the brink of the grave. Again: In September, 1824, an English waiter read in a newspaper an ac- count of a certain John Drew who, having been bitten by a mad dog, fell a victim to hydrophobia. In the very act of reading, the unhappy fellow was overtaken by the same dread disorder and scarcely saved by the phy- sicians at Guy’s hospital. Very striking is the frequent instance presented by those un- happy persons who are troubled by remorse for a youth spent in debauchery and by a fear of the lagging but as they imagine cer- tain consequences of their errors. In the truest sense do they create the bodily evils that they fear, and induce disease and debility through mere worry. Every practicing physician must have ob- served analogous phenomena in others and in himself. Many a medical student, specializ- [55]