Title: SPIRITUALISM AND ALLIED CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF NERVOUS DERANGEMENT
Author: William A. Hammond
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New YorkYear: 1876 (First American Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 366Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: First (American) Edition from 1876 of William Hammond's SPIRITUALISM AND ALLIED CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF NERVOUS DERANGEMENT. In very good condition: some shelfwear to boards; rubbed and bumped corners; wear to board edges and chipped spine edges; minor chipping to endpaper; interior is clean and free of markings save 2-3 sentences underlined in old pencil. Illustrated with examples of "ecstatic" and "hysterical" behavior. CONTENTS include: 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; Slight of Hand Compared to Spiritualistic Manifestations; The
Different Kinds of Mediums; Physical Mediums; Sensitive or Impressible Mediums;
Seeing and Auditive Mediums; Speaking Mediums; Curing Mediums; Pneumatographic
and Writing Mediums; Somnambulism, Natural and Artificial; Hysteria; Fasting
Girls; The Hysteroid Affections - Catalepsy, Ecstasy, and Hystero-Epilepsy;
Stigmatization; Conclusion. Please see below for more information on the author, William Hammond.
William Alexander Hammond (28 August
1828 – 5 January 1900) was an American military physician and neurologist.
During the American Civil War he was the eleventh Surgeon General of the United
States Army (1862–1864) and the founder of the Army Medical Museum (now the
National Museum of Health and Medicine). He was the first American physician to
devote himself entirely to neurology, the author of the first American treatise
about neurology, and one of the founders of the American Neurological
Association. [Wikipedia].
