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Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing By: George Barton Cutten (1874-1962) |
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by GEORGE BARTON CUTTEN, Ph.D. (Yale) President Of Acadia University Illustrated New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1911 [Illustration: BAS RELIEF REPRESENTING THE GALLIC ÆSCULAPIUS DISPATCHING A DEMON] Copyright, 1911, by Charles Scribner's Sons Published February, 1911 THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF Artemus Wyman Sawyer, D.D., LL.D. PRESIDENT OF ACADIA UNIVERSITY 1869 1896 HE HID FROM US HIS HEART WHILE WE THOUGHT THAT HE LOVED ONLY HIS STUDIES; WE LATER LEARNED THAT HE LAID EMPHASIS ON THAT WHICH HE LOVED ONLY LESS TRUE KNOWLEDGE, IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT INTRODUCE IT TO THOSE THAT HE LOVED MOST HIS PUPILS. HE TAUGHT AS NONE OTHER CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Introduction Mental Healing 3 II. Early Civilizations 19 III. The Influence of Christianity 35 IV. Relics and Shrines 61 V. Healers 110 VI. Talismans 138 VII. Amulets 158 VIII. Charms 189 IX. Royal Touch 224 X. Mesmer and After 249 XI. The Healers of the Nineteenth Century 273 Index 309 PREFACE The present decade has experienced an intense interest in mental healing. This has come as a culmination of the development along these lines during the past half century. It has shown itself in the beginning of new religious sects with this as a, or the, fundamental tenet, in more wide spread general movements, and in the scientific study and application of the principles underlying this form of therapeutics. Many have been led astray because, being ignorant of the mental healing movements and vagaries of the past, the late applications, veiled in metaphysical or religious verbiage, have seemed to them to be new in origin and principle. No one could consider an historical survey of the subject and reasonably hold this opinion. It is on account of the ignorance of similar movements, millenniums old, that so much, if any, originality can be credited to the founders. The object of this volume is to present a general view of mental healing, dealing more especially with the historical side of the subject. While this is divided topically, the topics are presented in a comparatively chronological order, and thereby trace the development of the subject to the present century. The term "mental healing" is given the broadest possible use, and comprehends any cures which may be brought about by the effect of the mind over the body, regardless of whether the power back of the cure is supposed to be deity, demons, other human beings, or the individual mind of the patient. It is hoped that this may contribute to the knowledge of a subject which is of such wide spread popular interest. George Barton Cutten. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, December 1, 1910. ILLUSTRATIONS Bas relief representing the Gallic Æsculapius dispatching a demon Frontispiece FACING PAGE Cure through the Intercession of a Healing Saint 72 Valentine Greatrakes 134 Sir Kenelm Digby 152 King's Touch pieces 226 F. A. Mesmer 252 John Alexander Dowie 276 George O. Barnes 290 Mary Baker Eddy 302 THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF MENTAL HEALING CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION MENTAL HEALING "'Tis painful thinking that corrodes our clay... Continue reading book >>
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