Animal magnetism and homoeopathy / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1838
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Credit: Animal magnetism and homoeopathy / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for months or years, and in many cases ulti- mately yielding to time or to the occurrence of circumstances of a moral nature, which excite this faculty to action. The case of loss of voice above related, as well as that under the head of homoeopathy, cured by starch pills, which the patient supposed to be homoeopathic remedies, are of a similar nature, the muscles concerned in the formation of the voice being deprived of their power for a longer or shorter period. Imitation and habit influence in a remark- able manner the actions of the economy in health and disease. How frequently do we see one person imitating the gestures of another, without being aware of the circumstance,^ Children, in whom the imitative faculty is most strong, readily adopt the gestures and even the tone of voice of their parents or other persons with whom they are associated. The action of yawning when we see others yawn is a familiar example of the power of imitation. Muscular twitching of parts, squinting and stammering, are not unfrequently acquired by imitation, and are subsequently kept up by habit for an * It is certain that wise bearing or ignorant car- riage is caught, as men take diseases one of another j therefore let men take heed of their company.— Henry IV., Part 2.