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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery, by Robert Means Lawrence This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Author: Robert Means Lawrence Release Date: November 2, 2007 [EBook #23293] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PSYCHO-THERAPY AND QUACKERY *** Produced by Chris Curnow, Fox in the Stars, Michael Zeug, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Notes: [Rx] in this text represents the symbol used today to designate a prescription. [ounce] represents a symbol for ounce, a symbol that looks like a short 7 on top of a 3. Words in Greek in the original are transliterated and placed between +plus signs+. Words italicized in the original are surrounded by _underscores_. A complete list of corrections follows the text. PRIMITIVE PSYCHO-THERAPY AND QUACKERY BY ROBERT MEANS LAWRENCE, M.D. AUTHOR OF "THE MAGIC OF THE HORSE-SHOE," ETC. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1910 COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY ROBERT MEANS LAWRENCE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published October 1910_ They have observed but little, who have not remarked how much Imagination contributes to give success to the curative power of a medicine. VICESIMUS KNOX, D.D. _Winter Evenings_, I, p. 154. The mind has the same command over the body, as the master over the slave. ARISTOTLE. PREFACE Certain historic modes of healing, including the use of medical amulets and charms, which have been regarded from early times as magical remedies, belong properly to the domain of Psychical Medicine. For the therapeutic virtues of medical amulets are not inherent in these objects, but are due to the influence exerted by them upon the imaginative faculties of the individuals who employ them. They afford powerful suggestions of healing. In this volume the writer has sought to emphasize the fact that the efficiency of many pri
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