Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923
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Mlle. X----, of Geneva, aged 13. Sore on the temple considered by several doctors as being of tubercular origin; for a year and a half it has refused to yield to the different t...
2. Chapter 2The subject is immediately felt to make a slight movement backwards, and either to stop himself from falling or else to fall completely. In the first case, tell him that he has...
6. Chapter 6. . . It is difficult to speak of the profound influence exercised on me by your so kindly allowing me to view so often your work. Seeing it day by day, as I have done, it has i...
3. Chapter 3Since such results are to be obtained by suggestion, would it not be beneficial--I might even say _indispensable_--to take up this method and introduce it into our reformatories...
5. Chapter 5To a child (in a clear and commanding voice): "Shut your eyes, I am not going to talk to you about lesions or anything else, you would not understand; the pain in your chest is...
1. Chapter 1[Note: many of the people quoted in this text are identified only by their initials along with either a dash or three periods. For consistency's sake, I have used four dashes fo...
7. Chapter 72. That when there is a conflict between the imagination and the will, it is always the imagination which wins; and in this case we do exactly the _contrary_ of what we wish to do.