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operate independently of the Volition of the Patient.
Nerve Terminals the Means provided by Nature for the Trans-
mission of Histionic Suggestions. The Spinal Column the
Guide to one Set of Terminals, and Pain the Guide to the other.
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Part One

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES INVOLVED

IN MENTAL HEALING

YCHICAL RESEARCH,
APR 2 8.1927odgson,

Richard

SECRETARY FOR AMERICA,

MEDICINE

THE LAW OF METAL MELAGEN BOSTON, MASS.

Part One

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN MENTAL HEALING

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

Ancient Superstitions. — All Diseases referred to Bad Spirits. — All Healing of Disease credited to Good Spirits.- Innumerable Theories of Causation prevalent among Primitive Peoples. — Many of them still survive in Modified Forms; some of the most grotesque being extremely popular in the midst of the Highest Civilization. All Systems, Ancient and Modern, have been successful in healing the Sick. This Fact alone challenges the Attention of Science. It indicates the Existence of a Law pertaining generically to all Systems. No Logical Connection between Theories of Causation and the Results produced; otherwise all Systems, from Fetichism to the most Modern Modification of that System, would be able to "demonstrate " their Theories. The Logic of Primitive Minds the same in all the Ages. The Question of Mental Healing is primarily a psychological one; hence the Necessity of studying the Fundamental Principles of Psychology as a Basis of a Correct Theory of Causation. — Recent Discovery of a Primary Intelligence below the Threshold of Normal Consciousness enables us to study the Subject inductively. The Facts of Physiology and Histology reveal the Rationale of Mental Healing. It is unnecessary to antagonize Established Systems of Material Therapeutics. We are indebted to Doctors of Medicine for much of the Knowledge