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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    ing on the diseases of the eye, sees the mouches volanies floating before his retina and so really impairs his sight; or even, in extreme cases, lives in constant fear of a cataract. During the frightful epidemic that raged in Europe some years ago one often heard the members of a social gathering, so soon as the conversation struck that fatal sub- ject, complain of and really exhibit symptoms of the evil that terrorized their imaginations. I have purposely taken instances from the living facts of contemporary life. Much that is more wonderful could be cited from books. But the point I desire to make must now be clear. If the imagination can make man sick, can it not make him well? If I can grow ill because I imagine myself to be so, must I not be able to preserve my health by the aid of the same faculty? Let us consider now such cases as answer this question in the affirmative. I do not care to repeat here all that is said and can be said of the influence of confidence, music, [ 56]