We have in the brain, cells, in the cranium, in the brain
itself, impressions received by the nervous system, by the
sensory organism of the system, transmitted to the brain
through that of the channel of the cerebrospinal nervous
system, by what is known as white and gray matter of the
nerve tissue inside of it. The fear in the body, which
is abnormal from healthful, or the opposite from a whole
condition, becomes repressed, or suppressed by the conditions
existing in the body. Hence we have, as would be termed
from the exterior, or by material man from the outside, a man
demented at times. At others, a normal, acting, working man.
The fear, from some expression of thought, brought to bear
on the sensory system, produces a flush of the condition over
the whole system, and the man becomes, as it were, raving or
falling. Once one way, once another. It depends on the
condition we have expressed and how it is expressed to the
body itself. Either through that of sight, that of hearing,
that of the touch or that of all combined. It comes on
without any fore-knowledge either to the observer from the
outside or to the man himself, except at times he will know
it is going to appear.
No resistive power from the outside, no material, has any
effect, except to be with it, quiet it, soothe it. More is
to be reached through that of the sensory system, through
that of ease of mind. Repress the fear, soothe the temples,
with pressing of the hands to the head and along the spine,
a dash of water in the face. Those external expressions to
the system. Nothing else has any effect, unless we produce
a deadening to the whole nervous system, through that of a
narcotic or hypodermic.
This condition is situated, as we have it, in the brain, at
the right side, midway between the frontal and back brain,
above the lower or third, above the sense as we know of
remembrance, or to where impressions are brought to the
mind of past occurrences, impressed to the brain, or those
cells-like expressions transmitted and engraven [engraved]
on the brain, or producing a cell wherewith it is remembered.
(Q) What treatment would you prescribe to relieve these
conditions?
(A) Never use force, that is, physical force, by
over-powering of the body, or repressing those thoughts
expressed by the patient at the time the condition comes over
the body, but take the condition as we have it at the time of
these spells. We humor, that is, we give in (force from the
outside now) to these forces. We humor him in his acts and
wants to what he expresses himself, until we gain control of
the thoughts of the body itself and until we sink the body
into a state of, not as it goes off at times, but through
repression; or, as known, the control over the abnormal,
or a state of hypnosis. Then we remove these thoughts from
the body. A continuation of these forces, letting them gain
power and control over himself, will bring him back to normal
man and a normal condition in the body. Then, we will remove
the rest of the conditions we have brought about over the
system by this condition existing, as it has, through those
of the blood forces and through the organs of the system in
itself.
Or, we can remove this clot from the brain, by use of the
knife, on the scalp itself.
(Q) Any other treatment you would prescribe for the present.
(A) Do this if you want to get him in the condition of a
normal man again.
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