INDEX

A Achylia Gastrica, 216 Activity, intestinal, 220 Adirondacks, 183 Agoraphobia, 27 Akrophobia, 27 Alcohol, narcotics, 191; in pneumonia, 190; in snake bite, 193 Alcoholic craving and food, 159 Algiers, 182 Angina pectoris, 230 Anthony, Saint, the Hermit, 21 Arctic regions, 205 Aridity, office building, 206 Aristotle, 71 Arnold, Matthew, 219 Arthritis, rheumatoid, 242 Ascesis, 77 Asceticism, 92 Asthma dread, 211 Attention, concentration of, 127 Auto-intoxication, 36 Autotoxemia, 226 Avalanche, Law of, 123 B Babinski, 261 Bailey, Dr. Pearce, 261, 269 Bain, Professor, 51 Bell, Alexander Graham, 280 Bernheim, 252 Betel nut, 45 Birth control, 282 Bismarck, 10 Brakes on energies, 19 Bright's disease, 102 C Cancer, 75 Cancer cures, 106 Carpenter, Doctor, 51 Cat asthma, 210 Catarrh, 31 Character, 66 Charcot, Professor, 252 Chesterfield, Lord, 224 Child bearing, 279 Chilliness, 197 Claustrophobia, 25 Coddling, 267 Conklin, Professor, 54 Consciousness, sphere of, 230; threshold of, 127 Consumption cures, 177 Cough remedies, 201 Coughing, unnecessary, 199; productive, 200 Coughs and cold air, 204 Cures, so-called, 244 D Danger, sense of, 129 "David Harum", 276 Death Valley, 206 Dercum, Doctor, 274 Diabetes, 164 Disheartenment, 104 Dowie, John A., 253 Dreads, 278 {286} E "Eat and grow thin", 163 Eating, 149 Eddyism, 253 Education, liberal, 55 Effort, faculty of, 92 Eliot, George, 67 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 67 Emmet, Thomas Addis, 11, 147 Energies of men, 15 English, Thomas Dunn, 10 Euphoria, 192 Evacuation, intestinal, 221 F Family, large, 74; eating, 160 Fermentation, 155 Flat foot, 141 Food and alcoholic craving, 159 Food prejudices, 152 Franklin, Benjamin, 251 Function, intestinal, 218 G Galen, 170, 241 Galvani, 248 Gas formation, 155 Gassner, Pfarrer, 252 Giving up, 2 Gouley, John W., 11 Greatrakes, 245 H Habits, 149 Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 24 Hamlet, 82 Hard sayings, 66 Health, secret of, 283 Heart craves exercise, 235; interests, 277; irregular, 236: missed beats, 235; regularly irregular, 237 Heredity, 169; and environment, 54 Höll, Father Maximilian, 252 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 40 Horace, 224 "Horse, the outside of a", 138 Humboldt, Alexander von, 9 Huxley, Thomas Henry, 54 Hyde family, 280 Hypnotism, 251 Hypochondria, 30 Hysteria, major, 275 I Imperatives, 99 Insomniaphobia, 27 Instinct, 149 Insults, psychic, 267 Interests, feminine, 277 Intestinal stasis, 38 Intuition, 88 Invalids, chronic, 76 Isolation, 268 J James, William, Professor, 15, 60, 77, 92 Jesuits, General of, 119 K Koenig, Professor, 274 L Laxatives, 219 Leo XIII, 9 Libitina, 224 Long, St. John, 171, 255 {287} Longevity, 146 Lying, hysterical, 260 M Maistre, Xavier De, 122 Marmalade, 222 Matthew, Father, 47 Mesmer, Friedrich Anton, 172, 250 Metallotherapy, 248 Mexican border, 60 Misophobia, 23 Mitchell, S. Weir, 11 Mollycoddle, 63 Moltke, 10 Montreal, 204 More, Sir Thomas, 266 Mothers, young, 281 Mutism, 259 N Nansen, Fridtjof, 205 Nauheim, 233 Neuro-hypnotism, 250 New South Wales, 280 O Obesity, 162 O'Malley, Austin, 80 Optatives, 99 Orange skin, 222 P Pain and Refinement, 131 Pain, control, 116; dread of, 128 Palpitation, 228 Perkins, Elisha, 248 Personality, secondary, 88 Phthisis, 171 Physiology, study of, 35 Pneumonia, 104; alcohol in, 190 Possession, 266 Pseudologia hysterica, 260 Psychic contagion, 275 Psycho-analysis, 41 Pueckler-Muskau, Prince, 16 Q Quackery, History of, 245 Quinine and whisky, 201 Quitters, 169 R Ramon y Cajal, 123 Ranke, Leopold von, 11 Repplier, Agnes, 17 Resolution, 82 Respiration spasm, 209 Rest, 57 Rheumatism, chronic, 240 Rheumatoid arthritis, 242 Riviera, 182 Roosevelt, Theodore, 118 Roughage, 220 Royal touch, 246 S Saranac, 184 Scare, lifted, 193 Schlatter's case, 217 Self-drugging, 40 Self-pity, practice of, 70 Self-subliminal, 88 Sensation, diffusion of, 125 Sensitization, 135 Shell-shock, 64, 259 Skotophobia, 24 Smith, Stephen, 11 Snake bite, 193 {288} Stokes, Professor, 5 Stomach functions, 215 Subconscious, 85 Suffering, 68 Sybarite, 72 T Tantrum, 265, 272 Temperature variations, 181 Thatcher, 248 Therapeutics, absurd, 244 Thompson, William Hanna, 11 Torpillage, 264, 265 Tragedy, 71 Trait, family, 149 Trudeau, Doctor, 183 Tuberculosis, 103; curable, 178; early, 176; frequency, 168; takes quitters, 169 U Undereating, 160 Underweight, 149 V Valetudinarianism, 282 Vapors, 272 Virchow, Rudolf, 10 W Weber, Sir Hermann, 146 Wellington, Duke of, 43 Wilde, Oscar, 7 Will, and survival, 4; conscious use, 81; living on, 2; omnipotent, 16; sapping, 13 Women's diseases, 272