On the power of concentration to influence body organs.
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On the power of concentration to influence body organs.
Sends scraps of information. Everything he has sent is unreservedly at CD’s disposal.
Thanks GBAD for permission to use his photographs [see 7623] and for the information on the expression of astonishment in monkeys.
Discusses breeding fancy pigeons from the wild blue rock-dove.
More details on children with hairy backs;
reasons for greater mortality rate of male children.
Comments on influence of nervous system on nutrition of body parts as discussed in James Paget’s Lectures on surgical pathology [delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 3d ed. (1870)]. Asks about mental influence on capillary circulation.
Wonders whether correspondent might possibly know of any cases in which intense concentration of the mind on one portion of the skin produces dilation of the capillary vessels and hence reddening of the area.