The Law of Mental Medicine Author:Thomas Hudson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE VARIOUS SYSTEMS OF MENTAL HEALING The Intelligence that controls the Functions of the Body in Health the Power or Energy that requires Assi... more »stance in Case of Disease. — The Body a Confederation of Micro-organisms controlled by this Central Intelligence. — It is a Mental Organism that all Therapeutic Agencies are designed to energize. — Mental Therapeutic Agencies the Primary and Normal Means for this End. — Physical Agencies not excluded. — A Mental Stimulus more direct and positive than a Physical One. — Material Remedies Good and Legitimate Forms of Suggestion. — Whether Remedies are Material or Mental, they must energize the Central Controlling Intelligence. — The Therapeutic Value of all Agencies proportioned to their Power to stimulate the Subjective Mind. — Suggestion the Prepotent Therapeutic Energy. — This is the Law of Mental Healing. — The Teleological Argument to be drawn from the Law of Mental Medicine. — None other so demonstrative of Divine Benevolence.— Absence of Fear and Pain at the Moment of Dissolution.— This Phenomena, considered together with the Law of Mental Healing, possesses a Teleological Significance. — The Law of Mental Healing is universal and adapted to every Grade of Human Intelligence. — Antiquity of Suggestion as a Therapeutic Agent. — Its Myriad Forms. — All effective in proportion to their Faith-Inspiring Potency. — Scientific Significance of the Beliefs and Practices of Primitive Humanity. — All were useful, and each was adapted to some Special Grade of Intelligence. — Primitive Minds still exist in the Highest Modern Civilization with Corresponding Powers of Reasoning. — Current Beliefs adapted to Varying Grades of Intelligence. — Their Religious Features Potent Factors in their Success. — Systems based upon Error less effi...« less