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...Tapps' family physician examined the girl, who thrice had had pneumonia. He found her pulse normal, her reflexes satisfactory, declared she was in a state of autohypnosis, responding only to religious stimuli. Thus when the Full Salvationists sang Have Thine Own Way, Lord, a newshawk took Shirley's pulse, found it increased from 93 to 103. And Shirley smiled dreamily for a cameraman when she was asked, "Shirley, do you love Jesus?", by her friend Elmer Wood...
Machine age esthetic stimuli are found in straight forward, business like buildings, where our Victorian grand parents insisted on gingerbread ornament from which to drape their tendrils of memory and affection." The sentimental Victorian distinction between "architecture" and "Building" no longer prevails for the modernist...
...healthy scepticism is the priceless gift of higher education, by the time a man enters college, in nine cases out of ten his heredity and environment and upbringing have given him an approach to life which is best suited to him. While opening one's mind to intellectual stimuli of all kinds, one should take care not to confuse principles with knowledge. Only if the two are kept in their true position can the former remain intact, and the latter be increased...
...which strong emotions play a part. Reason: the intelligent person understands and worries about his condition, and it gets worse; the madman has no such worries. To doctors, Dr. Donald Gregg of Wellesley, Mass. gave this advice: "Let us lessen our emotional load by avoiding excess of emotional stimuli, by slackening our pace, or bearing it intermittently; by avoiding excessive specialization thereby lessening our dependence on others, and by developing our knowledge of facts and wisdom in applying these facts, and by developing a philosophy and a faith to take the place of that which our increased but still partial...
...Traut and consultants that Patricia Maguire suffered from sleeping sickness. Her "convulsive movements were often marked enough to throw her out of bed. She yawned a great deal and grimaced, holding her mouth pulled up at either side. She would not answer but would draw away from painful stimuli. Convulsive movements of the jaws required the insertion of a gag to protect her tongue and cheeks. She lay for hours with the neck, arms and legs acutely and rigidly flexed...