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Spiritualism and allied causes and conditions of nervous derangement / by William A. Hammond

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Hammond, William A. (William Alexander), 1828-1900
Additional Titles
Spiritualism and nervous derangement
Published
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876.
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1 online resource (xii, 366 pages) : illustrations
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Some of the causes which lead to a belief in spiritualism-sensorial deception -- Magnetism in its relations to spiritualism -- Concentrated attention a source of erroneous sensorial impressions -- Sleight of hand compared to spiritualistic manifestations -- Different kinds of mediums -- Physical mediums -- Sensitive or impressible mediums -- Seening and auditive mediums -- Speaking mediums -- Curing mediums -- Pneumatographic and writing mediums -- Somnambulism, natural and artificial -- Hysteria -- Fasing girls -- Hysteroid affections -- catalepsy, ecstasy, and hystero-epilepsy -- Stigmatization -- Conclusions.
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Open Digital Theological Library (Internet Archive)
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Medical Heritage Library
Reproduction Note
Electronic reproduction. Boston, Mass. : Internet Archive, 2010-2012. (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine -- Medical Heritage Library digitization project).
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