Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery

The power of suggestion and imagination are used for a lot time as healing tools, by many charlatans and other medical personnel. In the past the use of charms, amulets and talismans was considered as a deed of magic, but it actually belonged to the Psychical Medicine.

Although there are people who don’t believe in these things, there are many witnesses that confirm the power of suggestion and words.

This book is written with the intention to bring to light the incredible power of the mental influence on healing. It emphasizes the fact that the efficiency of many primitive therapy methods is a result of their mental influence.

In this book you will read about: power of words; healing influence of music medical amulets; talismans; royal touch;  phylacteries; styptic charms; curative influence of the imagination, blue-glass mania; temples of Esculapius; healing spells in ancient times; medicinal runic inscriptions; metallo-therapy; ancient medical prescriptions; animal magnetism; remedial virtues ascribed to relics; quacks and quackery, etc.