Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... PRACTICAL TEACHINGS OF THE USE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN MEDICINE. NOTES FROM CLINICAL STUDIES WITH BERNHEIM, FOREL, VON KRAFFT EBING, ETC. I. AN early train in July 1891, brought me from Strasburg to Nancy. There was a strange comfort in leaving, as an indescribable feeling of uneasiness had grown stronger during my short stay. Impartial in my views, and a perfect stranger, nothing but politeness and kindness had .been extended to me. The new Strasburg had elicited my admiration, with its fine private and public buildings--a magnificent university, for instance, an eloquent interpretation of the German love and respect for scientific pursuits. The pride manifested in showing me all this was legitimate, and no exultation struck a discordant note. Still, one labored under the irrepressible feeling that to bridle utterance, whether of criticism or of praise, would be just as much an act of kindness as of prudence. It was intolerable. A silence of unspoken thoughts made the city mournful and chilly. To watch the characteristic, ill-concealed language of those faces, eyes, gait, and then to think of the terrible effect when the spell eventually breaks! This prison air unnerved me. Just as silent and masked lies the steel girdle around. The rippling surface of the surrounding land looks like a half-forgotten burial-ground, but its undulating lines are the war-god's hieroglyphs. There, in these hidden casemates, are buried at present the weighty arguments of--a future day. And over it all, green waving grass, birds and a fleecy sky. Speeding on, there were banners and music from the frontier to Nancy. What a contrast between the 14th of July here and there! On several occasions I had partaken of French enthusiasm on that day, but had never before been...
