APPENDIX II TABLES OF CASES TREATED BY MIND-CURE In this Appendix we will reprint lists of cures and failures from trustworthy sources, representing simple Suggestion (Dr. Parkyn) Hypnotism (Drs. Van Rhenterghem and Bernheim), Mental Science (per Mr. Goddard), Faith Healing (Lourdes). 1. DR. PARKYN'S CASES The value of mental treatment in certain nervous disorders is universally acknowledged. Let us begin, therefore, with the report of Dr. Parkyn, who treated Nervous Prostration only. Here is a list of sixteen consecutive cases treated by suggestion at the Chicago School of Psychology, without a failure: 1 1 Herbert A. Parkyn, M.D., Suggestion an Infallible Cure for Nervous Prostration: Qu. H. H. Goddard, American Journal of Psychology, X, No. 3 (April, 1899), p. 474. 2 Gained 12 lbs. first week of treatment. 2. DR. VAN RHENTERGHEM'S CASES. He states that he treated 178 patients by hypnotism. Of these he failed to hypnotise 7. He treated 162: of these, 91 were cured, 46 improved, and 25 not improved. There were 37 diseases represented: here is a tabulation of a part of them: Disease. 3 Treated. Improved. Cured. Not cured. 3. PROFESSOR BERNHEIM'S CASES The following list of cases treated by Hypnotism from the records of the eminent authority, Bernheim, is reprinted from Suggestive Therapeutics: No. A. Organic Diseases of the Nervous System. 10. Disease. I Cerebral hemorrhage, hemiplegia, hemianesthesia with tremor and contracture. 2 Cerebro-spinal disease: apoplectiform attacks, paralysis, ulnar neuritis. 3 Partial left hemiplegia. 4 Traumatic epilepsy rheumatism. Result. Cure. 66 66 with traumatic 66 Improvement. Marked improvement for six months. 8 Nervous troubles (organic cause?) in Temporary suppres the brachial plexus. 9 Paresis of traumatic origin of the muscles of the hand. IO Paresis of the extensors of the hand and saturnine anesthesia. sion of the symptom. No cure. 3 Van Rhenterghem, Psycho-Thérapie, from Goddard. Op. cit., p. 473. 4 Suggestive Therapeutics, pp. 404-407. (De la Suggestion, B. Hysterical Diseases. 17. Disease. No. 12 Hysteria, sensitivo-sensorial anesthesia. 13 Hemiplegia with left sensitivo-sensorial hemianæsthesia. 14 Hysterical sensitivo-sensorial hemianæsthesia. 15 Hysteriform paroxysms with hysterical somnambulism. 16 Anæsthesia. Hysterical spinal pain. 17 Paralysis with hysterical anesthesia. 18 Convulsive hysteria with hemianæsthesia. 19 Hysteria. Paroxysms of convulsive weeping. 20 Convulsive hysteria. 21 Convulsive hysteria with hemianæsthesia. 22 Convulsive hysteria. 23 Convulsive hysteria with hemianæsthesia. 24 Convulsive hysteria with hemianæsthesia. 25 Hysteria with hemianæsthesia. 26 Hysteria in the male: weeping, con- Cure, at least temporary. C. Neuropathic Affections. 18. vulsion, paroxysms. 27 Hysterical aphonia. 28 | Nervous aphonia. in the head. 29 Moral inertia and subjective sensations 30 Nervous aphonia. 31 Post-epileptic tremor, cephalægia and insomnia. 32 Nervous gastric troubles. Anæsthesia. 33 Neuropathic pains. 34 Epigastric pains. 35 Neuropathic lumbar pains. Insomnia. 36 Paresis with sense of weight in right| leg. 37 Pains in right leg. et de ses applications à la Thérapeutique, par le Dr. Bernheim, Professor à la Faculté de Médecine de Nancy, 1886, and 1891. Tr. A. Herter, 1890.) No. Disease. Result. 38 Girdle pain and pain in right groin, with difficulty in walking for twenty months. 39 Insomnia. Loss of appetite, mental] depression, tremor. 40 Gloomy ideas. Insomnia — loss of ap-| petite. 41 Insomnia through habit. 42 Cephalægia, intellectual obnubilation. 43 Vertigo, moral depression connected with cardiac disease. 44 Laziness, disobedience, and loss of appetite in child. 45 Pseudo-paraplegia with tremor. 66 consecutive to 66 from moral 49 Post choreic tremor in hand. 50 Post choreic trouble in writing. 51 Choreic movements in hands. 52 Hemi-chorea. 53 General chorea. 54 General chorea. 55 Obstinate writers' cramp. 56 Attacks of tetany, nocturnal 57 Nocturnal somnambulism. E. Dynamic Paresis and 61 Sense of weight with paresis of left| arm. 62 Dynamic psychic paraplegia. 63 Pains and paresis of lower limbs. No. F. Gastro-intestinal Affections. 4. Disease. 64 Alcoholic gastritis with insomnia and weak legs. 65 Chronic gastritis. Dilatation of the stomach and vomiting. 66 Gastric troubles. Burning sensation over sternum. Insomnia. 67 Gastro-intestinal catarrh. Metritis. Neuropathy. Result. Improvement. 66 Cure. Improvement. G. Various Painful Affections. 12. 68 | Epigastric pain. 69 Umbilical and epigastric pain. 70 Interscapular pain. 71 Thoracic pain. Insomnia. lar diathesis) (Tubercu 72 Hypogastric and supra-inguinal pains on left, connected with old pelvic peritonitis. 73 Intercostal pain. 74 Thoracic pain. 75 Painful contusions of the deltoid. 76 Muscular pain in flank. 77 Painful spot in side. 78 Pains in the epitrochlear muscles. 79 Pains in shoulder and upper right limb from effort. H. Rheumatic Affections. 80 Rheumatic paralysis of right fore arm. 81 Rheumatic scapulo-humeral arthritis. |