A practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia) : its symptoms, nature, sequences, treatment / by George M. Beard. A.M., M.D. edited with notes and additions, by A. D. Rockwell.

  • Beard, George M. (George Miller), 1839-1883.
Date:
1888
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    tution. In some cases, the irritation heals altogether to^ quickly, so that it is necessary to repeat it quite frequently. As I understand it, these woimds heal quickly in these persons, for the same reason that they do not have inflammations, or are not Uable to febrile diseases. Metalloscopy or Metal Tlierapeutics.—While in Paris, Charcot gave me every opportunity to observe all his experiments, not only in the department of metallo- scopy, but in trance, and the conclusions which I have reached from the observations then and there made, and from my own experiments, and from the htera- ture of the subject, are as follows: 1. Results far more interesting and informing, both in a physiological and in a therapeutical sense, have been obtained where the experiments were made in such a way as to make it absolutely certain that the only factor in producing the results was merely sub- jective—i)ie mind of the patient acting upon the body. It is also established that, under any influence or mode of treatment calculated to act on the emotions in any way, it is difficult to exclude this subjective element of error, which comes from the mind of the patient oper- ated upon. In my own experiments in mental therapeutics, thus far published only in abstract, I have established the following: First. By turning the mind of the patient on his body, through any process whatever, as by stating the precise hour when recoveiy will take place, by apply- ing metals outside of the clothing, etc., it is possible to cure permanently, as well as very rapidly, and in some cases instantaneously, cases of long-standmg fuac- tional nervous disease. Second. Even organic structural disease may, in the