Another World

visection and surgical operations
painless--Nerves of sensation only, affected by the luller--Energy
of the functions considered essential--Pain-luller, how
discovered--The Nebo bird and the child--The broken limbs and
absence of pain--Discovery


XIII.--THE MICROSCOPE.

Properties of optical instruments increased by electricity--
CONCENTRATED LIGHT--The illuminated worm--Light attracted by the
enticer-machine--Concentrated light in Music--Human voice and
musical instruments--Union between the soul and perishable portions
of man--Concentrated light within us--Similarity of terms applied
to the brain and to vision--Strength to the intellectual
powers--EXPERIMENT ON LIVING MAN--Electrical currents in brain--How
agitated--Rarity of the experiments--Serious consequences to
patient--Conditions imposed, and advantages secured, to him--Not
allowed to marry


XIV.--PHYSICIANS--DISEASE GERMS.

High rank of Physicians--Former and present duties--Periodical
visitations--Microscopes--Perspiration indicating disease--Exact
nature of disease not shown--Example--Ordinary appearance of
perspiration--Lung disease and consumption--Lung dew--"The
Scraper"--The breath


XV.--MADNESS.

Minute divisions of brain examined by microscope--Former
neglect--Early indications rarely noticed--Supposed lunatics often
wiser than their keepers--An instance--The man's statements laughed
at--World believe him a confirmed madman--Madness not now assumed
from seeming absurdities--Thoughts formerly scoffed at, now
acknowledged facts--Minute divisions of brain responding to trains
of thought--Effectual remedies for earliest symptoms--Cure of
developed madness--Former error which prevented cure--The disease
does not exist in the _overworked_ portion of the brain


XVI.--THE DEATH SOLACE--INSECTS.

Insects contain valuable electricities--Whole crops destroyed by

John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.

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