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Title: Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing

Author: George Barton Cutten

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THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF MENTAL HEALING

by

GEORGE BARTON CUTTEN, Ph.D.
(Yale)
President Of Acadia University

Illustrated

New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
1911

[Illustration: BAS-RELIEF REPRESENTING THE GALLIC AESCULAPIUS
DISPATCHING A DEMON]

Copyright, 1911, by
Charles Scribner's Sons
Published February, 1911

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY

OF

Artemus Wyman Sawyer, D.D., LL.D.

PRESIDENT OF ACADIA UNIVERSITY

1869-1896

HE HID FROM US HIS HEART WHILE WE THOUGHT THAT HE LOVED
ONLY HIS STUDIES; WE LATER LEARNED THAT HE LAID
EMPHASIS ON THAT WHICH HE LOVED ONLY LESS--TRUE
KNOWLEDGE, IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT INTRODUCE
IT TO THOSE THAT HE LOVED MOST--HIS
PUPILS. HE TAUGHT AS NONE OTHER

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Introduction--Mental Healing 3

II. Early Civilizations 19

III. The Influence of Christianity 35

IV. Relics and Shrines 61