"Diseased person" Quotes from Famous Books
... vigorous persons sleeping with a diseased person is always at a disadvantage. The consumptive patient will draw from the strong, until the consumptive person becomes the strong patient and the strong person will become the consumptive. There are many cases on record to prove this statement. A well person should never sleep with an invalid if ... — Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols
... in neurotic families (with frequent cases of lunacy, alcoholism, etc.) rather than in those of criminal tendencies appears at first sight strange, but according to the new theory advanced by my father, the criminal is a mentally diseased person; and we shall see in a later chapter that the heredity of insane, neurotic, and dipsomaniac parents is completely ... — Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
... secret of magnetic cures: the irregular vibrations of the diseased person are so worked on as to accord with the regular vibrations of the healthy operator, as definitely as an irregularly swinging object may be made to swing regularly by repeated and timed blows. A doctor will magnetise water ... — Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries • Annie Besant |