Drenched with the invisible galvanic shower,
Till the arthritic staff and crutch forego
And leap exulting like the bounding roe!"
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"Mesmer and Perkins's Tractors,"
International Clinics , Vol. III, Series 19. 1909.
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Compare the first effects of the Leyden Jar, related in the chapter on Pseudo-Sc
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"AEquanimitas and Other Addresses."
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London, 1901.
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"Die Psychische Krankenbehandlung im Ihren Wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen." Berlin 1910.
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Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston.
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"Mesmer and Perkins's Tractors,"
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Compare the first effects of the Leyden Jar, related in the chapter on Pseudo-Science.
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Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.
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A king of Italy of the later nineteenth century used to send the parings of his toe-nails to friends to be worn in rings for luck and protection against disease.
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Small, Maynard & Co.. Boston, 1909.
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Paris, Maloine, 1804.
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McClurg, Chicago, 1903.
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This article is a translation made by the author shortly after a visit to Ramon y Cajal in Madrid, in 1900. See
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A number of poetic products of dreams are in our literature, some of them interesting for more than their curious origin. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, in his latest volume of poems, "The Comfort of the Hills," made an interesting contribution to the psychology of dreams by publishing two poems which were composed by him while asleep. The little poem, "Which?" has all the curious alliterativeness and frequent rhyme that is so likely to be noted in expressions that come during sleep, or just as we awake. The other is more like a somnambulistic effort. What we might suggest here is that the habit of poetizing during sleep would surely be dangerous to any one less eminently sane than their author. We give them as curious examples that will interest patients who complain that their dreams are too vivid.
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"Louis Agassiz, His Life and Correspondence," edited by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885.
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The story of Hans, the calculating horse, shows that even animals usually thought rather dull-witted may catch muscle movements so slight as to be scarcely visible to any but one looking particularly for them.
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"Hypnotism. Its History, Practice and Theory," by J. M. Bramwell, 2nd edn. London, The De la More Press, 1906.
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Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1909.
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"Curiosities of Lead Poisoning,"
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