Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cases which are most susceptible to my form of treatment are pains, such as lumbago and headaches, and such affectations as stuttering and general nervousness. Most illnesses of this class are entirely mental in their character, which explains their readiness to submit to auto-suggestion...
...have frequently been questioned," he continued, "as to whether auto-suggestion should replace religion, and my reply is in the negative. By this I do not mean that religion is essential to success in this treatment because it is not. The only real connection between religion and auto-suggestion lies in the fact that both require faith for success. To combine the two is perfectly possible, and a reconciliation between them is certainly not difficult to effect...
...less safe and less effective than nature's own way of accomplishing the same ends. A partial state of coma is induced in the patient by deep and rapid breathing; dizziness follows, and it is held that almost any part of the body may then be subjected to treatment that would ordinarily cause pain, without the slightest sensation of discomfort, and without any harmful after-effects...
...with a view to the purification of athletics and to this end appointed a special committee of nine, three from each university. The three chairmen also to clear certain misunderstandings, had informal conferences at New Haven with other representatives of the three universities and accepted certain principles in the treatment of athletes. The fruit of all these negotiations is seen in the published resolutions of the three presidents...
...wonder that, in a fierce physical encounter, our hot-blooded youth can be trained to keep their tempers as well as they do. The game of 1922 combined the intensity of football with the chivalry of tennis. Cheer leaders, bands, coaches, players vied with one another in generous treatment of their rivals. The Yale captain was deservedly cheered by the Harvard section: Yale and Harvard players helped each other up after a down...