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The Science of Psychic Healing2040
Bain says: “There have occurred many instances of death, or mental
derangement, from a shock of grief, pain, or calamity; this is in accordance
with the general law.”
Darwin says: “In protracted grief the circulation becomes languid; the
face pale; the muscles flaccid; the eyelids droop; the head hangs on the
contracted chest; the lips, cheeks, and lower jaw all sink downward from
their own weight. The whole expression of a man in good spirits is exactly
opposite of the one suffering from sorrow.”
Olston says: “If the general law of the body be that of cheer, hope, joy,
love, and desire for health and happiness give growth to tissue, strong and
normal action to the organs of the body, and thereby health in general;
while fear, melancholy, malice, hatred, dejection, loss of confidence and all
other morbid states of mind tend to the lassitude of the functions and the
depletion of the organs—I feel that too much enthusiasm cannot be raised
in the reader’s mind upon these all important facts.”
Flammarion says: “An idea, an impression, a mental commotion, while
entirely internal, can produce in another direction physiological effects
more or less intense, and is even capable of causing death. Examples are not
wanting of persons dying suddenly in consequence of emotion. The power
which imagination is capable of exercising over life has long been established.
The experiment performed in the last century of a man condemned to
death, who was made the subject of a study by medical men, is well known.
The subject of the experiment was fastened securely to a table with strong
straps, his eyes were bandaged, and he was then told that he was to be bled
from the neck until every drop of his blood had been drained. After this an
insignificant puncture was made in his skin with the point of a needle, and
a syphon arranged near his head in such a manner as to allow a stream of
water to flow over his neck and fall with a slight sound to a basin placed on
the floor. At the end of six minutes the condemned man, believing that he
had lost at least seven or eight quarts of blood, died in terror.”