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RELIGION AND HEALTH
BY
JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D. etc.
MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY, PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, CATHEDRAL COLLEGE LECTURER ON PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY, MARYWOOD COLLEGE, SCRANTON, PA., MT. ST. MARY'S, PLAINFIELD, N.J.
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1920
Copyright, 1920,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published October, 1920
Norwood Press
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co.,
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To
HIS EMINENCE JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS
AN EXEMPLAR OF RELIGION AND HEALTH
FOR OUR GENERATION
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| Introduction | [1] | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I | Can We Still Believe? | [ 8] |
| II | Prayer | [33] |
| III | Sacrifice | [59] |
| IV | Charity | [80] |
| V | Fasting and Abstinence | [109] |
| VI | Holydays and Holidays | [120] |
| VII | Recreation and Dissipation | [132] |
| VIII | Mortification | [147] |
| IX | Excesses | [168] |
| X | Purity | [184] |
| XI | Insanity | [205] |
| XII | Nervous Disease | [217] |
| XIII | Dreads | [234] |
| XIV | Suffering | [254] |
| XV | Pain | [265] |
| XVI | Suicide and Homicide | [277] |
| XVII | Longevity | [294] |
| XVIII | The Bible and Health | [306] |
| XIX | Health and Religion | [319] |
| Index | [333] |