Health Through Will Power

A

Achylia Gastrica, 216Activity, intestinal, 220Adirondacks, 183Agoraphobia, 27Akrophobia, 27Alcohol,
  narcotics, 191;
  in pneumonia, 190;
  in snake bite, 193Alcoholic craving and food, 159Algiers, 182Angina pectoris, 230Anthony, Saint, the Hermit, 21Arctic regions, 205Aridity, office building, 206Aristotle, 71Arnold, Matthew, 219Arthritis, rheumatoid, 242Ascesis, 77Asceticism, 92Asthma dread, 211Attention, concentration of, 127Auto-intoxication, 36Autotoxemia, 226Avalanche, Law of, 123
B

Babinski, 261Bailey, Dr. Pearce, 261, 269Bain, Professor, 51Bell, Alexander Graham, 280Bernheim, 252Betel nut, 45Birth control, 282Bismarck, 10Brakes on energies, 19Bright's disease, 102
C

Cancer, 75Cancer cures, 106Carpenter, Doctor, 51Cat asthma, 210Catarrh, 31Character, 66Charcot, Professor, 252Chesterfield, Lord, 224Child bearing, 279Chilliness, 197Claustrophobia, 25Coddling, 267Conklin, Professor, 54Consciousness,
  sphere of, 230;
  threshold of, 127Consumption cures, 177Cough remedies, 201Coughing,
  unnecessary, 199;
  productive, 200Coughs and cold air, 204Cures, so-called, 244
D

Danger, sense of, 129"David Harum", 276Death Valley, 206Dercum, Doctor, 274Diabetes, 164Disheartenment, 104Dowie, John A., 253Dreads, 278
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E

"Eat and grow thin", 163Eating, 149Eddyism, 253Education, liberal, 55Effort, faculty of, 92Eliot, George, 67Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 67Emmet, Thomas Addis, 11, 147Energies of men, 15English, Thomas Dunn, 10Euphoria, 192Evacuation, intestinal, 221
F

Family,
  large, 74;
  eating, 160Fermentation, 155Flat foot, 141Food and alcoholic craving, 159Food prejudices, 152Franklin, Benjamin, 251Function, intestinal, 218
G

Galen, 170, 241Galvani, 248Gas formation, 155Gassner, Pfarrer, 252Giving up, 2Gouley, John W., 11Greatrakes, 245
H

Habits, 149Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 24Hamlet, 82Hard sayings, 66Health, secret of, 283Heart
  craves exercise, 235;
  interests, 277;
  irregular, 236:  missed beats, 235;
  regularly irregular, 237Heredity, 169;
  and environment, 54Höll, Father Maximilian, 252Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 40Horace, 224"Horse, the outside of a", 138Humboldt, Alexander von, 9Huxley, Thomas Henry, 54Hyde family, 280Hypnotism, 251Hypochondria, 30Hysteria, major, 275
I

Imperatives, 99Insomniaphobia, 27Instinct, 149Insults, psychic, 267Interests, feminine, 277Intestinal stasis, 38Intuition, 88Invalids, chronic, 76Isolation, 268
J

James, William, Professor, 15, 60, 77, 92Jesuits, General of, 119
K

Koenig, Professor, 274
L

Laxatives, 219Leo XIII, 9Libitina, 224Long, St. John, 171, 255
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Longevity, 146Lying, hysterical, 260
M

Maistre, Xavier De, 122Marmalade, 222Matthew, Father, 47Mesmer, Friedrich Anton, 172, 250Metallotherapy, 248Mexican border, 60Misophobia, 23Mitchell, S. Weir, 11Mollycoddle, 63Moltke, 10Montreal, 204More, Sir Thomas, 266Mothers, young, 281Mutism, 259
N

Nansen, Fridtjof, 205Nauheim, 233Neuro-hypnotism, 250New South Wales, 280
O

Obesity, 162O'Malley, Austin, 80Optatives, 99Orange skin, 222
P

Pain and Refinement, 131Pain,
  control, 116;
  dread of, 128Palpitation, 228Perkins, Elisha, 248Personality, secondary, 88Phthisis, 171Physiology, study of, 35Pneumonia, 104;
  alcohol in, 190Possession, 266Pseudologia hysterica, 260Psychic contagion, 275Psycho-analysis, 41Pueckler-Muskau, Prince, 16
Q

Quackery, History of, 245Quinine and whisky, 201Quitters, 169
R

Ramon y Cajal, 123Ranke, Leopold von, 11Repplier, Agnes, 17Resolution, 82Respiration spasm, 209Rest, 57Rheumatism, chronic, 240Rheumatoid arthritis, 242Riviera, 182Roosevelt, Theodore, 118Roughage, 220Royal touch, 246
S

Saranac, 184Scare, lifted, 193Schlatter's case, 217Self-drugging, 40Self-pity, practice of, 70Self-subliminal, 88Sensation, diffusion of, 125Sensitization, 135Shell-shock, 64, 259Skotophobia, 24Smith, Stephen, 11Snake bite, 193
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Stokes, Professor, 5Stomach functions, 215Subconscious, 85Suffering, 68Sybarite, 72
T

Tantrum, 265, 272Temperature variations, 181Thatcher, 248Therapeutics, absurd, 244Thompson, William Hanna, 11Torpillage, 264, 265Tragedy, 71Trait, family, 149Trudeau, Doctor, 183Tuberculosis, 103;
  curable, 178;
  early, 176;
  frequency, 168;
  takes quitters, 169
U

Undereating, 160Underweight, 149
V

Valetudinarianism, 282Vapors, 272Virchow, Rudolf, 10
W

Weber, Sir Hermann, 146Wellington, Duke of, 43Wilde, Oscar, 7Will,
  and survival, 4;
  conscious use, 81;
  living on, 2;
  omnipotent, 16;
  sapping, 13Women's diseases, 272