The plan of this work is sufficiently set forth in the following, from the introductory chapter: "Psychologically, we intend to indicate, by the title we have adopted, the design of illustrating by a considerable collection of striking cases the often admitted, but too frequently forgotten, and still more frequently neglected truth, that the state of the mind, comprising therein intellect, emotion, and volition, exerts an enormous influence for good or evil upon the body with which it is associated,—including in this term all sensations, movements, and the organic functions." The author has carefully carried out this plan, and we have presented a mass of systematically arranged material, much of which is certainly striking enough, but some of which is of little scientific value. Quotations from the daily press and the literary classics are very useful as embellishments, but hardly serve as sufficient data for the establishment of scientific laws. In
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C. E. W. (1884) studied this question.