"I shall feel confident in open spaces!"
"I shall find no more pleasure in alcohol!" and so on.
Suggestion will not cure epilepsy, hysteria or neurasthenia, but it overcomes many of the symptoms which make the patient so wretched.
"Crutches are hung on the walls of miraculous grottos, but never a wooden leg."
Suggestion may move a paralysed arm, but the muscles only become healthy again in many days by slow repair; suggestion releases the catch, but the spring must be wound up by energy suitably applied.
CHAPTER XIX
MEDICINES
"Of simples in these groves that grow