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THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF MENTAL HEALING
by
GEORGE BARTON CUTTEN, Ph.D. (Yale) President Of Acadia University
Illustrated
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1911
Copyright, 1911, by Charles Scribner's Sons Published February, 1911
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY
OF
Artemus Wyman Sawyer, D.D., LL.D.
PRESIDENT OF ACADIA UNIVERSITY
1869-1896
HE HID FROM US HIS HEART WHILE WE THOUGHT THAT HE LOVED ONLY HIS STUDIES; WE LATER LEARNED THAT HE LAID EMPHASIS ON THAT WHICH HE LOVED ONLY LESS--TRUE KNOWLEDGE, IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT INTRODUCE IT TO THOSE THAT HE LOVED MOST--HIS PUPILS. HE TAUGHT AS NONE OTHER
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Introduction--Mental Healing 3
II. Early Civilizations 19
III. The Influence of Christianity 35
IV. Relics and Shrines 61
V. Healers 110
VI. Talismans 138
VII. Amulets 158
VIII. Charms 189
IX. Royal Touch 224
X. Mesmer and After 249
XI. The Healers of the Nineteenth Century 273
Index 309