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Chapter I. I Ntroduc Tion
Discovery of the cerebral functions. The grandeur of its scope and the resistance of mental inertia. A few honorable recognitions. The Medical Faculty, the Scotch Phrenologists, and the Academy of Sciences. The Eclectic movement. Position of the medical profession as expressed by Prof. Gross and others. Discovery and statement of Sarcognomy. Cerebral physiology and corporeal psychology. Practical value of Sarcognomy and character of my lectures and demonstrations. Practical certainty. Future of Sarcognomy in relation to medicine. The present volume, . . 5-
Chapter II
dF LIFE AS A SPIRITUAL POWER, AND ITS LOCATION IN THE BRAIN.
Ancient medical philosophy spiritual or vital. Des Cartes the apostle of modern scepticism. His visionary dogmatism. Prof. Huxley a follower. Medical scepticism criticised by Dr. Lionel Beale. Living structures confound materialism. Unfairness and intolerance of medical dogmatism. Its repudiation by Dr. Reynolds. The unproved hypotheses of scientists. Physiological statements of Prof. Bennett and absurd theory. Phenomena of living bodies described by Dr. Beale. Phenomena of amoebae and white globules of the blood. Prof. Ranvier's statements. Phenomena of bacteria and vibriones. Ciliary movements illustrated. Movements of hydra. Life in simple microscopic structures. Vegetable life similar to animal. Illustrative examples. Haeckel's wild hypothesis of spontaneous generation. Huxley's admission that abiogenesis never occurs. The example of Monera refutes materialism. "Bastian's description of amoebae and evasion of the issue. No anatomical difference to explain different vital endowments in the nerves. Vitality an independent and permanent existence which should be honestly recognized. Total failure of the fashionable physiology to explain muscular motion by caloric. Exposition of this absurdity. Fallacious ideas of the action of the brain and its influence on health. Fallacies in education. Chemical constitution of living matter. Brain matter different from Huxley's protoplasm. Oxygen a necessary element. Bioplasm cannot be chemically produced. Nervous influx indispensable to life. Life dependent on nervous centres and nuclei. Comes from the nervous system and leaves from the brain. Death from below upwards, as shown by Bernard. More important to energize the brain and soul than to cultivate the body. Effect of dark or watery blood on the brain. Effect of pressure. Effect of shower bath on head, and of ablation of the upper surface of the brain. Influx not exclusively to the bra'.n but also to the ganglia. Transference of senses to the epigastric region, and co-operation of central regions of the body with the brain. Influence of oxygen similar to a spiritual atmosphere. Influence of solar plexus, pineal - gland, and cardiac plexuses and ganglia. Cerebro-spinal system primitive seat of life. Development of the human embryo. Report of M. Gasparin on Belgian miners. Cerebral stimulants a substitute for food. Something more than chemical elements necessary. Spiritual causes equally important. Life arrested when transmission from brain is interrupted.
Effect of injuries of the spinal cord. Fatality from severe laceration. Pathological effects of spinal injuries. Effects on the heart. Analogy to typhoid fever. Effects of injury of the brain. Typhus fever and cerebral disease. Effects of wounds of the brain. Bichat's experiments on the brain
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in dogs. Majendie's injection of water. Great quantity of blood in the brain. Effects of injuries of nerves. Fallacy of Claude Bernard. Wasting of the muscles from lack of nervous influence. The ganglionic system dependent on the cerebro-spinal. Brain controls both voluntary and involuntary processes, ............. 14—46
Chapter III. Critical Discussion And Exposition Of Errors
Tenacity of the old ideas. Centralization of life in higher developments. Incapacity to realize the functions of the heart and the brain. Disregard of Gall and indifference to experiments. Prof. Mitchell's experiments. Defective reasoning capacity. Origin of life by influx. Sanative power of the brain. Philosophy of life. Huxley's admissions as to the vital power. Opposition to psychic science. Importance of psychic co-operation. If life is but the forces of matter the largest animals must have the most. Superiority of the small. Psychic truth demands our support. Vague ideas of physiologists : Todd and Bowman, Bennett, Flint, Bain. Doctrines of John Hunter, Dr. Prout, Muller, Beclard, Bichat, Carpenter. Life is not transformed heat. Carpenter's absurdities. Beale's statements as to the nerves. Chemical action not the source of life. Life always comes from life, as matter comes from matter.
Ultimate seat of life in the tissues, in fluids and imponderables. Living substances in the air. How to obtain amoebae. Vital actions of minute bodies. Their psychic life. Character and action of bioplasm. How it forms the body. Passage of vital forces by contact, in and out of the body. Nerve organization beyond the microscope, « 47-65
Chapter IV. Sarcognomy — General View
Definition of Sarcognomy. Its origin. Why do we recognize psychic influence in the body. Contrary to prevalent medical doctrines. The misdirected energy of the medical profession. Incapacity of the colleges for psychic investigations. The body has no psychic functions in man. Conscious life in the brain, physiological processes in the body. Soul controls both. The triple reaction is the process of life. Vagary of Leibnitz. Failure down to the present age to investigate these problems. The five great reasons for the failure. Ruskin's view of it. Gall and Swedenborg. Purpose of this work. Necessity for Sarcognomy. Its bases, philosophical, physiological, pathological and experimental. The triune sj-mpathies. Illustrations of Sarcognomy. To be treated only as a basis for healing. The three methods. Indications of impressibility. Psychic treatment. Manual treatment on brain and body. Correspondence of soul, brain and body. General statement and directions for operating. Laws of location of the organs, . 66-81
Chapter V. The Spinal Region — Its Anatomical, Neurological, And Therapeutic
RELATIONS.
Duty of the healer. Necessary predominance of the upper and posterior regions. Their antagonism to the abdominal region. Upward passes. Morbid tendencies and vital relations of the abdominal region. Dispersive passes. Medical applications. Spinal region: demonstration of its importance. Treatment of intermittent fever by M. Gondret on the spine. Counter-irritation at the origins of nerves. Special endowments and increased development of different parts of the spinal cord. Flexor muscles governed by upper, and extensor by lower portion of the cord. Importance of the cephalic region of the spine. Its brachial plexus and phrenic nerve. Its extensive distribution. The vertebral ganglia and arteries. Their control over vital powers explained anatomically. Electric experience of Dr. Rockwell. Resuscitation of a moribund patient through the cephalic region. Importance of the cephalic region in fevers. Testimony of Drs. Gerhard and Beard. The upper dorsal nerves and cilio-spinal region at the
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second dorsal nerve. Connection of the cuneus and angular gyrus in the brain with vision. Testimony of Onimus and Legros as to the cephalic region. Thoracic and abdominal divisions of the dorsal region. Pulmonic influence of the dorsal region. Cardiac region of the cord. Caries of the spinal vertebrae, as reported by Brodie, showing the functions of the cord. Pathological observations of Dr. Little. Anatomical connections of the upper dorsal region. Treatment of hooping-cough through the upper spinal region. Differences of the upper and lower dorsal region explained. Illustrations in consumption, pneumonia. Sympathies of the chest with the upper region of the brain. Influence of the affections. Illustrations in sunstroke, typhus, and insanity. Connection of pneumonia and delirium.
Relation of the heart to the dorsal and cervical regions. Illustrations of the lower dorsal region. Connection of the cephalic region with respiration and circulation, through the phrenic nerve, ganglia, and plexuses. Relations of dorsal region to respiration. Experiment of Onimus and Legros. Relation of the diaphragm to the spine. Explanation of coughs. The most effective current for stimulating the diaphragm. Control of the lower dorsal region over the abdominal functions. The respiratory tract on the abdomen. Experiments of Valentine and observations of Sherwood. Backache from constipation. Opposite tendencies of the upper and lower portions of the spinal cord. Power of the lumbar region. Experiments of Brachet on the lumbar region. Experiments of Budge. Anatomical description of the lumbar and sacral nerves. Seats of sexual functions. Observations of Longet, Breschet, and Brachet. Sacral and hypogastric plexuses. Budge's sexual centre. Connection of the sexual and muscular. Antagonism to brain in pelvic region and lower limbs. General view of the spine and its nervous control.
Correlation and combination of functions. Van Kempen's experiment. Roots of the nerves. Complex relations of the heart with ganglia, phrenic nerve, and spine. Relations of the thoracic part of the cord. Cervical ganglia and pneumogastric. Relations of splanchnic nerves. Combination of brain, lungs and stomach. Connection of cardiac and pulmonary nerve forces. Importance of the ganglionic system, . . . 82-124
Chapter VI. Practical Directions For Therapeutic Spinal Treatment
How to invigorate the brain for various purposes. Stimulation of posterior part of the body. Stimulation of the cephalic region. Treatment of the lungs through brain and body and by hsemostasis. Treatment of diaphragm. Treatment of the liver, stomach and bowels. Calorification and urinary organs. The Sexual energies. Treatment of paralysis. Six methods of treatment. Cerebral paralysis, . 125-134
Chapter VII. Relation Of The Brain To Vitality In Its Different Regions
Division of the brain by the vertical and horizontal lines. Rational illustration. Plan of the human constitution, front and back, above and below the ventricles. Fundamental law of direction. Action of basilar organs. Their effect on the body. Coronal organs antagonistic to the basilar. Effects of each. How the paralysis of either becomes fatal. Superior vitality of the upper surface of the brain. Anterior and posterior basilar organs. Seats of vital force at the base of the brain. The anterior basilar region and its subdivisions. The gastric region. Seat of appetite. The love of stimulus, effect of its development. How to control intemperance. Medical remedies. The moral and religious cure. Effects of malaria and of animal food. Treatment of the digestive organs through the brain. General character of the antero-basilar region. Calorification, how to excite it ; how to protect it. Effects of its overaction. The respiratory region. Signs of pulmonic dis-~" ease in the mouth. Region of Sensibility. Its confirmation by Ferrier. The organ of Language. Heating and cooling the temples. Region of Somnolence and its mental phenomena. Anterior coronal region. Temporal region, ... ....... i35-'45
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Chapter VIII. Zon Al Arrangement And Therapeutic Treatment Of The Brain
Explanation of Zonal Arrangement, with illustrations. Its indications of constitutional development. General law of functions. Vertical Zone of Excitability. Treatment on the cephalic region. Treatment of the heart. Of the thoracic region and of the liver. The Gastric and Abdominal region, and the Crural. The Morbid Zone explained. Hygienic caution, and curious illustrations. Relation of disease to the brain. Treatment of the Crural region. The Sexual region. Treatment of special functions. Health and disease. Sleep and wakefulness. The ideal powers. General vigor. Feverish conditions. Mental soundness. Warmth. Mental discipline. Nature of nervauric treatment, 146-159
Chapter IX. Health And Its Restoration
Definition of Health as an organ and faculty. Why that name is used. Effects of the organ of Health. ^ Animation. Health associated with happiness, virtue, and activity. Position and influence of the organ. Its ethical and spiritual relations. Vital power and animation, disease and death. Function of the shoulders and crown of the head. Relations of Health to ethics and religion. Its position in the brain between the moral and physical. The spiritual as the support of physical health. Deficiency of Language for nomenclature. Bia, Zoe, Anima, Animus, Psyche, Psychobiosis, and Psychodynamia as names. Animation and Health. Difficulty of expressing psychic and physical life in conjunction. Their combination in the superior posterior region of the brain and body. Healthful physical and moral exercises. Cultivation of the sentiments qualifies for healing. Love and Health correlative. Experience of Dr. Jennings. Personal healing by Newton and others. The religious and spiritual elements. Necessity of scientific preparation for healing.
Psychic Treatment. Permanent or constitutional health should be established. This requires moral power, not passive or negative, but active virtues. Power the element of success. Pursuit of duty the only satisfactory success. The higher virtues, heroic. Happiness may be brought to families and a perfect education to youth. Psychic treatment an indispensable part of education. Health and Virtue twin brothers. Special directions for treatment by the hand and the battery, ... . 160-173
Chapter X. Operative Methods
Transmission of vital power. Proof by experiments on frogs and by anatomy. Failure of electrical experiments by eminent physiologists. Functions of the convolutions which they could not reach. My reasons for neglecting galvanism. Medical opposition. Psycho-vital influences most appropriate to the brain. Discussion of the experiments of Fritzch and Hitzig. How to begin experiments. Use of plasters and other agents. Familiar illustrations of Sarcognomy. Pathological illustrations. Initiating experiments. Vital emanations. Positive and negative poles. Evils and dangers of electricity. Relations of operator and patient. Necessary influences for the operator. Spiritual inspiration ; its philosophy and power. Power of diagnosis. Prof. Draper's testimony as to the spirit. Conduct in the sick chamber; hygienic precautions. Dispersive manipulations. Non-conductors. Effect of passes. Quackery of massage. Activity in healing. Precautions for maintenance of health. Dangers of contagion, 174-194
Chapter XI. Nervauric Therapeutics
Impressibility the first question; its various external indications and causes. Influence of love. Improvement at the critical period of life. Test by the hand. Test by the eye. The receptive or impressible condition. The use
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of medicines. Impressible region of body. Passive and active methods. Influence of warmth, food, and medicine. Virtue the best foundation. Four controlling powers : health, brain power, vital force, sexual development. The shoulder. Plan of the human constitution. Parallelism of the spiritual faculties operating through the brain, and the physical powers displayed in the body. The psycho-dynamic health power; why at the shoulder; its proximity to the life centres; its connection with the spinal centre of power and ethical region of chest; its approbative character; relation to intercostal nerves. The foundation of Sarcognomy. Importance of shoulder exercises. The shoulder as a regulating region and centre. Treatment on the back. Narrow and exclusive views deprecated. Back to back practice. Fantastic theories and unscientific methods. Narrowness and prejudice. Importance of protecting the shoulders and back. Nature protects the shoulders and back. Nature protects the vital regions of head and body, 195-207
Chapter XII. The Occipital Energies
Brain power and its location. Prior development of the brain. False doctrines corrected. Superior organs necessary to vitaLpower in man. Brain power compared to Health power. Connection of the latter with Moral power and conduct. Local treatment. Vital Force and sexual vitality. Locations of Vital Force. Its distinction from Health. Influence of Vital Force when roused. Its connection with Nutrition. Location of the latter. Its influence on the constitution. Importance to invalids. Treatment through brain. Digestion. Its connection with the spine and with the gastric region. Organ of Alimentiveness. Its depressing influence. Buoyant Fortitude. Its moral association. Fasting. Influence of Firmness pathognomically explained. Hunger and appetite. Best method of treating stomach. Physiological influences of Firmness and the shoulder. Gastric irritations and emesis. Gastric medicines. Proper manipulations. Region of assimilative absorption. Moral forces concerned. How to promote assimilation. Spiritual relations of this region. Intellectual and occipital influences. Retentive power of the latter. Relaxing power of the former. Contrast of the Adhesive and intellectual regions. Adhesiveness on the occiput and on the back. Combativeness, its location and influence. Importance of Adhesiveness to patients. Importance in society and business. Retentive influence of the back. Its explanation. Region of Business Energy. Effect of spinal injuries. Of repletion. Co-operation of the energies. Conservative and destructive agencies. Upper and lower part of the abdomen. Restorative influence of Adhesive region; its connection. with Coolness and Sleep. Philosophy of the production of sleep, and the organs concerned in sleep and wakefulness, 208-225
Chapter XIII. The Abdominal And Crural Regions
The Gastro-enteric region, its locations and treatment. The anti-abdominal or tonic (and the atonic) region. Its accurate demonstration and location by European physiologists subsequent to my discoveries. The brain convolutions that it occupies shown in engraving. Its psychic functions. Debilitating influences of abdominal region. Philosophy of Intemperance. Its medical and electric treatment. Illustrative experiments. Organ of intoxication discovered. Remedies for gastric derangements. Philosophy of absorbent and repellent functions. Modes of treatment.
Abdominal Locations. i, Epigastric region. 2, Assimilation. 3, Respiration. 4, Calorification. 5, Excitability. 6, Lethargy. 7, Sexuality. 8, Melancholy. 9, Selfishness. 10, Irritability. 11, Abdominal functions from digestion to defecation. 12, Disease. 13, Expression. Philosophy of Calorification and Coolness. The lower limbs. The thigh. Locomotion, Nutrition, Turbulence. The leg, its relation to evolution. Fanciful notions of a microcosm. Range of forces in the genesis of man, mineral, vegetable, animal, radiata, mollusca, vertebrata, aquatic, aerial, mammalian. Locations of animal life on leg, its application to physiology and therapeutics. Suppression of inflammation in pneumonia and fever, and control of all vital functions by Haemospasia, . . . 226-243
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Chapter XIV. Pneumatic Sarcognomy
Exposition of Haemostasis and Dr. Buckler's experiments. Dr. Bevier's practice. Drs. Kellie and Robonan. Superiority of Hsemospasia. Junod and Hahnemann's case. Rationale of Hsemospasia. Balloons and caissons. Effects of light and heavy pressure on muscular and nervous systems. Origin and reception of Junod's discoveries in Hsemospasia. Effects of Hsemospasia. Summary of 293 cases. Professional neglect. Description of its success in thirty-three cases. Success of others. Its enlargement by Sarcognomy. Special treatment described. Treatment of spine. Aids to diagnosis. Various effects of pneumatic treatment. Description of pneumatic apparatus, . 244-288
Chapter XV. Pelvic Functions And Organs
JLumbo-sacral region. Importance of sexual development. Its effects. Injury by deficiency. Its influence for health and development. Conjugal relations. Centres of Love, spiritual and physical. Difference of the sexes. Sensibility of the womb. Pelvic disorders. Value of treatment on the back. Use of Helonias. Medical quackery. Inguinal region. Uterine region. Region of Sanity and Chastity. Sexual excitement, its control and its seat in the brain. Pathological cases illustrating its location. Influence of virility on Health and Vigor. Health as a co-operative. Centre of cerebellum as a re-inforcement of Vitality. Treatment of the eyes. Anatomical references and correlative organs that sustain vision. Pathological relations to insanity and nausea. Morbid tendencies of the basilar and pelvic organs. The true nature of insanity. Its location in the brain and the body. How insanity is to be cured by treatment on the body and the brain. Counter-irritation on the back of the neck. The hypochondriac region concerned. Location of nausea on the body. The colon, cholic, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. Nausea of pregnancy. Influence of nausea. Method of its treatment, . 289-304
Chapter XVI. Animal Magnetism Reviewed And Rectified
Deleuze and EsdailJs Works.
Its marvellous phenomena. Opposition of materialism. Its unscientific character. Its neglect by the medical profession and cultivation by Egyptian priests. Sarcognomy. Deleuze's " Practical instruction." His erroneous theories corrected. His formula for magnetizing. The scientific method of producing the results. The localities on the head and the body. The evil effects of the unscientific method. Effects of the downward passes. Superiority of the upward. Nature of the magnetic seance. Blind empiricism. The improper method of removing pain or disease. Prevalence of contagion. Use of the breath and of water. Method of waking. Use of magnetized water. The baquet. Exalted powers of Somnambulism. Their source and philosophy. Explanation of the power of operators and best methods. Blind routine of magnetizers. Failure of the medical profession. Hartshorn's translation, its valuable testimony. Mechanical ideas of the medical profession. How to produce insensibility. Testimony of Cuvier, La Place andGeorget. Corroboration by Pyschometry. Treatment of Dr. Elliotson in London. Cloquet's operation in the magnetic state. Clairvoyance of Miss Brackett. Duty of the disciples of truth.
Value of Dr. Esdaile's " Mesmerism in India." His numerous cases and liberal sentiments. Facility of the practice in India. A mesmeric magician. Testimony of the Catholic Church to the truth of animal magnetism and prohibition of its practice. Dr. Esdaile's first experiments on a criminal patient described. Great increase of impressibility. Therapeutic benefit of the trance. Description and explanation of the processes used in magnetizing. Of catalepsv and its removal. Intellectual and unintellectual methods. Demonstrations made upon a blind man. Controlling his subjects in court. Practical vaLue of Sarcognomy in India, 3°5 _ 338
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Chapter XVII. Mechanotherapy — Including Massage
Mechano-therapy a quackery. Works of Schreiber and Murrell. French names for massage. Pedantic trivialities. Superiority of methods of barbarians, Sandwich Islanders, Chinese, Egyptians. Painful processes of mechanotherapy. Superiority of those not taught by the colleges. Old practice of Drs. Balfour of Edinburgh, Grosvenor and Cleobury of Oxford. Greatrakes' cures in 1662. Collegiate opposition. Liberal sentiments of Hoffman. Professional prejudice. Mechanical benefits of massage. Pretentious pedantry of the books. Ignorance of Ling, the author of the Swedish movement-cure. Practice recommended by Schreiber. Mechanical treatment of narcotic poisoning. Transfer of vital force. Treatment of sprains. Mechanical treatmentof the tonsils, the womb, tumors, oedema and diseases of the eye. Miscellaneous imperfect treatment. Superiority of the nervauric. Professional treatment of sprains. Concussion with the hands. Japanese shampooing. Summary estimate of mechano-therapy, . . 339-362
Chapter XVIII. Rational Practice Guided By Sarcognomy
The proper philosophic view of medical science, sects, and prejudices. False ideas of poisons. Rational practice. Statements of Dr. Grosvenor Swan, Dr. J. P. Chamberlin, Dr. Wm. E. Wheelock, Dr. A. J. Symes, Dr. Z. L Baldwin, Dr. Orrin Robertson and L. A. Hulse, Esq., concerning their practice, guided by Sarcognomy and Psychometry, 363-392
Chapter XIX. The Hygiene Of Sarcognomy
Cultivation of the higher organs indispensable. The various methods illustrated. Effects of high altitudes on the lungs. Importance of costal respiration. Illustration of the subject by the Georgia Eclectic Medical Journal. Relation of the upper thoracic region to the ethical. Exercises of the limbs. Influence of altitudes. Importance of nutrition to the brain. False theories of a medical author. The principles that should guide our exercises. Evil effects of excessive muscular culture and passional excitement. Plan of culture proposed. Cultivation of the soul and religious sentiments as the basis of health. Of social intercourse and smiles. Importance of activity, energy and sport. Causes of exhaustion. Of vocal culture and oratory. System of culture devised by Mr. Checkley. Treatment of the skin. Tight lacing. Thoracic hygiene and atmospheric conditions, 393-419
Chapter XX. Synopsis Of Practical Rules For Therapeutic Treatment
With supplementary suggestions as to the spinal column, ganglionic nerves, anatomy of the thorax, and relation of the limbs to the trunk, . . . 420-438
Chapter XXI. Electro-therapeutics
General Statement.
Nine methods of electrical treatment : galvanism, primary, secondary, combined, static, unilateral, statico-chemical, magnetic and electro-medical. Use of the commutator. Simple stimulation. Rheostat. Use of the alternating current and its locations. Anterior and posterior, superior and inferior. Method of using the negative pole. Method of manual and of electro-medical treatment. Nature and use of the positive and negative in electricity. Static electricity and magnetism, 439-454
Chapter XXII. Review Of The Current Doctrines Of Electro-therapeutics
The galvanic current, the Faradic and their phenomena — their taste — their action on the muscles. Negative and positive currents. Merits of galvanism,
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Faradism and static electricity. Their reception by the profession. Electricity as a test of death. Heat developed by the current. Sensations from currents. Value of the Humboldt battery. Chemical effects and prolonged influences. Use of the two-plate battery. Action of galvanism on motor nerves and production of increased strength. Effects of direct, inverse and alternating currents. Character of the Faradic or induced current in comparison with the galvanic. Experiment on vibrating cilia. Refreshing and strengthening effects of galvanism. Exhaustive effects of Faradism. Anodjme effects of galvanism, and cases requiring Faradism — how its effects are produced. Cure of locomotor ataxy and neuralgia by galvanism — its catalytic effects. Cutaneous Faradization. Cure of contractions. Treatment of antagonistic muscles. Harsh effects of Faradism. Remarkable physiological errors of Prof. Claude Bernard. Antagonism of the sensitive and muscular systems. Relation of the nervous system to growth. Danger of Faradization on the front of the neck. Cures by galvanism when Faradism had failed. Effectof the interruptions. Comparison continued. Direct action on the muscles. Penetrative power of currents. Stimulant action of Faradism. Medication by electric currents. Removal of poisons by electricity. Injurious effects of the common batteries. Advantage of the muriate of ammonia. Action of galvanism on the ganglionic nerves. Its anti-spasmodic influence. Distinction of voluntary and involuntary structures. Galvanic current down the bowels for constipation. Failure of Faradism. Differences of electrodes. Interruptions. Delicate currents. Practical value of the primary current, intermediate between the galvanic and Faradic, 455*498
Chapter XXIII. The Experimental Investigation Of Man And Demonstration Of
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Chapter XXIV. Electro-therapeutic Apparatus
Electric treatment. Electricity as a stimulant and in cholera. Batteries for electro-therapeutics, the "different cells in use, their penetrative power. Combination of cell and coil. The common portable battery. Electric currents and their modes of application. The Faradic current, its use in infantile marasmus. Qualities of the currents. Galvanic batteries. Current measurement. Connections. Mode of application. Important improvement. Electrodes. Electric measurements. The coil and the cell combined. Currents applied to the human body and their modification and combination. Movable coil. Standard coil. Electric baths. Static electricity in nature. Its rationale misunderstood. Wires and electrodes. Static treatment by currents and shocks, not Faradism. Proper construction for this. Method of using static electricity. Its combination with other currents and with magnetism. Use of the static currents, . 534"5^2
Chapter XXV. Electro-therapeutics Guided By Sarcognomy
Electric currents and batteries. Treatment of Head and nervous system, directions of authors. Paralysis. Cerebral disorders and their^ treatment. Chorea and spasm. Neuralgia. Treatment of eyes. Diphtheria. Toothache. Hydrophobia. Treatment of Thorax. Pneumonia. Asphyxia. Consumption. Pleurisy. Diseases of the heart. Aneurism. The diaphragm. Hiccough. Treatment of the Abdominal Region. Fevers. The stomach. Nausea and vomiting. Cholera. Constipation and hernia. Dropsy. Rectal diseases. The liver. Electric development. Treatment of Pelvic Organs, amenorrhcea, dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia and parturition. Hemorrhoids. Stricture of "the urethra. Impotence and spermatorrhoea. Diseases of the skin. Treatment of limbs. Use of apparatus. Batteries. Static apparatus. Electro-puncture. Cauterization, ... . „ 563-615
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Chapter XXVI. Pathological Demonstration Of Sarcognomy
Change of plan. Concise review. Sympathy of brain and skin. Climate, cold, heat, moisture, electricity, clothing. Fever. Meningitis. Clammy sweats. Electric shocks: Nervous prostration and sweating. Dr. Luys on the intellectual influence of the skin. Illustrations of cutaneous anaesthesia and impairment of the brain. Eruptive fever and cerebral inflammation. Small-pox, erysipelas, and scarlatina. Typhus and typhoid fevers. Sympathy of subjacent organs.
Pulmonary Sympathies. Correspondence of lungs with brain and relation to the Pons Varolii as the seat of respiratory power. Relation to the nose and mouth. Effects of catarrh and asthma. Sunstroke. Experiments on rabbits. Consumption and its psychic symptoms. Heat and perspiration. Bronchitis and affection of the front lobe. Its exhausting effect. Sympathy of the abdomen with respiration. Pneumonia : affecting the whole brain, delirium, heat of skin, perspiration, antagonism to abdominal organs. Pleurisy: its relation to the womb; its more violent manifestations. Laryngitis: it* influence on the brain. Sympathies of the Heart : Its correspondence in the brain. Mania from heart disease. Prostration of the brain and impressibility. Mistakes of carditis for brain disease. Close sympathies of heart and brain. Different effects from other organs. Ganglia in the neck. Connection of apoplexy and hypertrophy of heart.
Relations of the liver and subjacent region. Disease of its controlling temporo-sphenoid convolution. Relations of different parts of the liver. Its proximity to morbid influences. The great depression of spirits that it produces. Its influence in delirium tremens and in jaundice. Difference of its upper and lower surfaces. Morbid character of abdominal inflammation. Dysentery, typhoid, irritation of rectum and anus. Melsena. Fevers omitted.
Sympathies of pelvic region. Relation to under-jaw region and destructive effects on nervous system. Illustration of this by orificial surgery. Relation of womb to hypersesthesia and hysteria. The two regions of sensibility in the brain and in the body. Relation of uterine disease to insanity. Sympathy of brain and body not uniform. Pain of urethral caruncles. Prostrating effect of chronic diseases of the colon. Statements of Dr. Prout. Cases of rectal obstruction in Ireland. Injury of sacrum in a boy — of coccyx in a woman. Fractures of thigh. Mental phenomena of hysteria and quasi disease. Inflammation of the bladder. Influence of the sexual faculties. Physiological explanation. Extreme contagiousness. Puerperal mania. Morbid effects from glans and prepuce.
Sympathies of the limbs. Correspondence of upper and lower. Passionate tendencies of gout and rheumatism. Remarkable effects of injuries of the knee and the foot. Conclusion, 616-666
Anatomical Illustrations, 672-675
Preface
In this volume, prepared in the very limited time allowed by my engagements, I cannot claim that Therapeutic Sarcognomy is either very fully or very accurately developed. What time forbids to me will be more fully accomplished by my successors ; and perhaps in future editions the necessary emendations and additions may be made.
Nevertheless, it is a fearless solution of the problem of soul and body, which lies at the foundation of all philosophy — a problem which my predecessors generally have shunned as if it were inaccessible to human intelligence, Gall and Swedenborg alone having attempted each a partial solution.
The correctness of my exposition of the triune constitution of man is sustained by the experiments which I have for many years been making in private and before classes, which my pupils have satisfactorily repeated, and it is sustained by universal experience in the history of diseases, which demonstrate according to their locality the laws of Sarcognomy. It has also a beautiful and interesting artistic illustration in the varieties of the human form, attitude, and gesture, which I hope hereafter to present. Nevertheless, in view of the history of scientific progress (which shows the ability of ignorance and falsehood to hold their ground for several generations against positive demonstration), it would be folly to anticipate a full and candid investigation of Sarcognomy by the leading authorities during the remaining years of the present century. Candid investigation of strange truths is not the habit of any nation, and is not taught in any system of education at present. The experience of Hahnemann and Beach, as well as prior reformers, shows the immense intellectual inertia of the colleges.
The scientific innovator is compelled to realize the opposition of blind conservatism as Darwin did in 1845, when he wrote: "I am a bold man to lay myself open to being thought a complete fool and a most deliberate one ; " and again : " I know how much I open myself to reproach for such a conclusion, but I have at least honestly and
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deliberately come to it." Yet these conclusions were reached by moving along in accordance with the general trend of scientific thought among the most advanced thinkers. But he who opposes the spirit of the age, and the authority of all the universities and eminent authors, cannot reasonably expect justice or success in his lifetime, even with a strictly demonstrable science, for habit and prejudice are, as they ever have been, much stronger than reason, and the innovator whose knowledge is revolutionary is refused a Jieariiig until he has gathered a considerable and influential following. To gather such a following and win a personal triumph has not been my purpose. I am content to know that (whatever errors or inaccuracies I have fallen into) I have surely developed eternal truths and laid a basis for the philosophy that will elevate the destiny of man. Of this philosophy Sarcognomy is an important part.
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You’ve reached the end of Therapeutic sarcognomy. The application of sarcognomy, the science of the soul, brain and body, to the therapeutic philosophy and treatment of bodily and mental diseases by means of electricity, nervaura, medicine and haemospasia, with a review of authors on animal magnetism and massage and presentation of new instruments for electro-therapeutics.