CEREBRAL HYPERÆMIA: the Result of Mental Strainor Emotional Disturbances. 16mo, cloth ... $1 00
"Under the disguise of these hard words, Dr. Hammond presents a varietyof admirable counsels, with regard to an excess of blood in the head, pointingout its causes, its symptoms, the mode of its medical treatment, and themeans of its prevention."—N. Y. Tribune.
"The work is not only of interest to the medical man, but also is one easilyunderstood and to be read with profit by brain-workers of all classes, whetherin profession, in literature or business. It treats of the cause of headaches, thewakefulness, the illusions or delusions, and feelings of tightness in the head,which so many of our American writers and thinkers experience, and it givesvaluable information available by laymen as to the prevention and remedy forthis affection, which later on leads to insanity or death."—Boston Traveller.
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, Publishers, NEW YORK.
BY
PROFESSOR OF DISEASES OF THE MIND AND NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF
NEW YORK, AND IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. ETC.
"There is no new thing under the Sun."
—Eccl. I, 9.
"Nil spernat auris, nec tamen credat statim."
—Phædrus.
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
182 FIFTH AVENUE
1879
Copyright by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS.
1879.
Transcriber's Note:Hyphenation and punctuation have been standardised.Variant spellings have been retained.Greek text appears with a mouse-hover transliteration, e.g., Βιβλος.
In issuing this little book I have been actuated by a desireto do something towards the removal of a lamentable degree ofpopular ignorance.
It seems that no proposition that can be made is so absurdor impossible but that many people, ordinarily regarded asintelligent, will be found to accept it and to aid in its propagation.And hence, when it is asserted that a young lady haslived for fourteen years without food of any kind, hundredsand thousands of persons throughout the length and breadth ofa civilized land at once yield their belief to the monstrousdeclaration.
I have confined my remarks entirely to the question ofabstinence from food. The other supernatural gifts, the possessionof which is claimed, would, if considered, have extendedthe limits of this little volume beyond the bounds which weredeemed expedient. At some future time I may be tempted todiscuss them. In the meantime it is well to call to mind thata proposition (see Appendix) which I made solely in the interestof truth was disregarded, ostensibly with the desire to avoidpublicity, when in fact the daily press had for weeks been filledwith reports in detail, furnished by the friends of the younglady in question, of the marvellous powers she was said topossess.
A portion of this essay, which bore upon the matter discussed,has been taken from another volume by the author, publishedseveral years ago, and now out of print.
William A. Hammond.
43 West 54th Street,
March 1st, 1879.