SECTION XX
Psychotherapy in Surgery

I. Psychotherapy in Old-Time Surgery [746]
II. Mental Influence Before Operation [749]
III. Mental Influence and Anesthesia [753]
IV. Mental Influence After Operation [759]

APPENDICES

I. Illusions [766]
II. Religion and Psychotherapy [776]

INDEX [781]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Temple of Epidaurus as a health resort Facing page [9]
1.Expressions of the mouth [102]
2.Cortex of human brain illustrating complexity of the systems and plexuses of nerve fibers [109]
3.Small and medium-sized pyramidal cells of the visual cortex of a child twenty days old [110]
4.Series of sections showing the fine nerve endings and branchings of the first and second layer of the visual cortex of a child fifteen days old. [111]
5.First, second and third layer of the anterior central convolution of the brain of a child one month old [112]
6.Layers of the posterior central or ascending parietal convolution of a new-born child [112]
7.Diagram of cells of cerebral cortex [113]
8.Scheme of lower motor neuron [114]
9.Scheme of the visual conduction paths [115]
10.Schematic frontal section through the occipital lobe illustrating manifold connections in a single lobe [116]
11.Isolated cell from human spinal cord [117]
12.Neuron from the optic lobe of the embryo chick [118]
13.Deep layer of giant pyramidal cells of the posterior central or ascending parietal convolution of a child thirty days old [119]
14.Pyramidal cell of cerebral cortex of mouse [119]
15.Neuroglia cells of the fascia dentata, in the new-born rabbit [121]
16.Neuroglia cell from the subcortical layer of the cerebrum from which two processes go to a blood vessel [122]
17.Neuroglia cells from the spinal cord [122]
18.An artery from the cerebral cortex [125]
19.Neuroglia cells of the superficial layers of the brain from an infant aged two months [126]
20.Complexity of cell of the central nervous system [131]
21.Section through the cortex of the gyrus occipitalis superior [132]
22.Motor cell of ventral horn of spinal cord from the human fetus [133]
23.Normal diaphragm curve in normal breathing [577]
24.Curve in diaphragm before and during talking by a stutterer [577]
25.Illusion of dual vision [615]
26.Illusion of dual vision [767]
27.Binocular vision [767]
28.Binocular vision [767]
29.The Müller-Lyer lines [768]
30.Illusions of size [769]
31.Illusion of filled space (interrupted vision) [769]
32.Illusions of size and linear continuity [770]
33.Poggendorf's displacement of oblique lines [771]
34.Zöllner's distortion of parallel lines [771]

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PSYCHOTHERAPY
INTRODUCTION