An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart (1873) (14775941081)

Identifier: originalillustra00simm (find matches)
Title: An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) DLC Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Physiognomy
Publisher: Glasgow : Dunn & Wright, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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s of your own family,when they are not dangerously ill, you might succeed very well ; but,in severe cases, you are apt to seek the aid of those you consider morecompetent than yourself. 8. In the history of your experience, some remarkable instances couldbe related in which you have suggested or wrought out the means ofrelief for those in trouble, or afflicted. 9. Nature has adapted you to lend a relieving hand to the enfeebled. 116 CUEATIVENESS. 10. You are wonderfully proficient in comprehending the wants ofthe unbalanced and diseased conditions of those in need of cure, as wellas the necessary remedies that would afford them relief. 11. Morbid and ailing people find your very presence a ready relief,few could excel you as a doctor. 12. Astounding reliefs and wonderful cures have been effected byyour vast powers of recuperation and validity. In these benign qualitiesyou closely resemble Dr Newton of Boston and Dr Davis of Chicago,who have effected the greatest cures of modern times.
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Curativeness large.Capt. Samuel Staddon. Has always been perfectly healthy, and weighs 200 pounds. A. To Cultivate the Curative Power :—Sleep much ; exerciseproperly in the open air; breathe pure air only, night and day; live onhealthful and nourishing food; avoid excessive exercise of every kind;and, above all, cultivate tranquillity of mind and purity of soul; then,when sufficiently strong, endeavour to relieve the sufferings of humanity. B. To Restrain the Faculty of Curativeness :—This is rarelynecessary, but when persons are constantly tampering or putting forthfutile and fruitless efforts to restore others, when they are themselvessadly deficient in health and vitality, then they abuse the faculty,and it needs restraining ; in this case the performer as well as thepatient should learn that quackery is playing upon the credulity andlikely living from the gullibility of the sick and their friends. SOLICITUSREPUTATIVENESS. 117 SOLICITUSREPUTATIVENESS. AN INNATE WISH FOR THE FAV