[Transcriber's Notes]
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A publication contemporary to this book is "Mother's Remedies" by Thomas Jefferson Ritter. It contains hundreds of suggestions that hindsight shows to be purely "mental" in their effect. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17439
One of the author's favorite terms is "over-solicitous". The patient literally "worrys themselves sick" over trivial symptoms and makes serious cases worse than necessary. Most of his use of psychotherapy consists of informing, diverting and cheering the patient so that worry and its consequences are not piled on top of real or imagined disease.
This book illustrates the general state of medicine in 1910. Psychotherapy was more important to medical care because so little was known of the complex physical mechanisms of the body. I particularly reacted to the discussion of hay fever because it plagued me for thirty years until experimental desensitization therapy successfully cured my case. Nonetheless, much of value has been lost with the decline of psychotherapy by the family physician. A personal relationship with the physician is often replaced with expensive impersonal technology that mostly tells what is not wrong.
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During the transcription of this book Dr. Michael Stewart of the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL., diagnosed me with a retinal condition that had deprived me of the ability to read with my left eye. His skilled surgery corrected the condition. I dedicate this transcription to Dr. Stewart and the skilled and thoughtful staff of Mayo.
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INCLUDING THE HISTORY OF THE USE OF MENTAL INFLUENCE, DIRECTLY ANDINDIRECTLY, IN HEALING AND THE PRINCIPLES FOR THE APPLICATION OFENERGIES DERIVED FROM THE MIND TO THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE.
BY
JAMES J. WALSH, M.D.. Ph.D.
DEAN AND PROFESSOR OF FUNCTIONAL NERVOUS DISEASE AND OF THE HISTORY OFMEDICINE AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, AND OFPHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY AT CATHEDRAL COLLEGE, NEW YORK; FELLOW OF NEWYORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE; MEMBER A.M.A., A.A.A.S., NEW YORK STATEMEDICAL SOCIETY, GERMAN SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND THEPHYSICAL SCIENCES, NEW ORLEANS PARISH MEDICAL SOCIETY, ST. LOUISMEDICAL HISTORY CLUB, ETC.
NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1912
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
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