Christ as a physician / by James C. Jackson.

  • Jackson, James C., 1811-1895.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Christ as a physician / by James C. Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    by sublimation. In fact, tlie more refined and piirilied it is, the more effective does it become. To lay off tlie conditions essential to earthly life must have added inconceivably to Christ's centripetal power. He must have understood this when on one occasion He said : Toucli me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father. This bespoke consciousness of increased resources when He should have ascended. And that this added power should be less available to the mitiga- tion of disease than when He was on earth is not to be accepted unless proved beyond cavil. True, the intermediate agencies may be more cumbersome than when He was a dweller in Judea; but this drawback is much more than made up by His superior attraction and by the freedom of action which His glorified personality confers. THE DIVINE PHILOSOPHY OF GETTING WELL. The philosophy which He left behind him declares ex- plicitly that the true way for those who believe on Him to get well of their diseases is to partake of His vitality, and the method by which to do this is to become imbued with His spirit, and then to live as He did. The psychological force thus made available will prove efficiently curative in the exact ratio of the impression made on the consciousness of the subject of it, and what the measure of its potency will be, may be readily inferred from the results of the action of the emotions, when these are stirred by ordinary mental motives. Emotional diseases which are very dis- tressing to the subjects of them, aud which battle the best remedial medicines of the Profession, yield to the influence of the imagination. I have in a great many instances seized on the imaginations of invalids wiio were not lunatics, nor hallucinated persons, nor persons crazed, but persons having diseases purely physical, like piles, neuralgia, constipation, bronchitis, sick headache, severe vomiting, diarrhaa, bloody flux, pneumonia, enlarged liver, rheumatism, sciatica, cancer in the breast, aud various other diseases, and hokling the