California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, Volume 31, Number 17, 20 May 1869 — THE PHILOSOPHY OF ILL HEALTH. [ARTICLE]

THE PHILOSOPHY OF ILL HEALTH.

Sickness is very largely the want of will. Krerything is brain. There is thought and feeling, not only, bnt will: and will includes in it far more than mental philosophers think. It acts univers sally, now as upon mind, and then just as much upon tbe body. It is another name for life, force. Hen in whom tbis life or will power is great, resist disease, and combat it when attacked. To array a man's mind and will against his sickness is tbe supreme art of medicine. Inspire In men courage and purpose, and tbe mind-power will cast oat disease. •'Nothing ails ber. It Is only imagination," said the nurse to him one day.— ■'Only" the imagination ? Tbat is enough. Better suffer in bone and muscle than in the imagination. If the body is tick, the mind can cure it; but if the mind itself is sick, wbat can cure tbat I — Norwood.