Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know the value of hypnotism in sickness, fear causing the ridiculous or mischievous while under the suggestor's spell. They fear also that the skillful will to which they might submit themselves might make them perform unwonted acts after they awoke. Neither of these fears has authority. The physician using hypnotism makes no sport with his patients. Even in hypnosis a patient only most reluctantly performs against his inherent moral nature. Awake he does practically nothing of the sort. Hypnotism does, however, permit the operator to penetrate so deeply into the personality of his patient that no one dares...
...practice to be at ease while in bed and with a relative stranger present. The patient fixes his eyes steadily upon an object placed so that he must strain his sight slightly. A monotonous sound, as from a metronome, drum or chant aids in putting him into somnolescence. The physician may pass his hands slowly and regularly before the staring eyes. But that is unessential. Mesmerists used to believe that waving fingers diffused a sort of magnetism into the patient. No one has proved that theory...
Admiral Gary Travers Grayson in Culpeper County, Va., came two gifts-an Arabian stallion and a male Arabian slave. Besides admiring that friend of small nations, Woodrow Wilson, to whom Admiral Grayson was personal physician,* King Husein is well aware that Admiral Grayson is as eminent a turfman as he is a sailor. Grateful, Admiral Grayson stabled the stallion. The slave he returned with his respects...
Mercersburg, Pa., famed as the preparatory school that John Coolidge attended, alumni last week elected as their president Lieutenant Commander Joel T. Boone, President Coolidge's personal physician. They also gave a testimonial dinner to Headmaster William Mann Irvine, who is beginning his 35th year with the school's faculty...
...already been done so much better than he could ever hope to do it. He reminds one of a second-rate doctor who was called to prescribe for a sick child. His medicine was not beneficial and the child grew worse. Finally the family doctor, a first class physician, was called. He did not criticise the parents for calling the other. He simply said: "Dr. Jones knows something about the disease he thinks is afflicting little Freddie ; but he doesn't know Freddie." And Freddie was an important factor in the case. Honi soit qui mal y pense. Perhaps...