. Demonism verified and analyzed . rs-in-law. My No. 67, while a maiden, worshipped a large paperidol, and became afflicted with demonism. After marriageit persisted. Whenever she omitted the burning of in-cense, she would feel badly, would then not recognize herhusband and would talk as the demon. After she hadbeen oppressed for twenty years, a neighbor became aChristian and took the preacher to see her. He foundthis idol treasured up in the bedroom, showing therebyunusual devotion, for the idols usually hang in the sittingroom. She allowed him to take it down and was soonhealed. But she had
. Demonism verified and analyzed . rs-in-law. My No. 67, while a maiden, worshipped a large paperidol, and became afflicted with demonism. After marriageit persisted. Whenever she omitted the burning of in-cense, she would feel badly, would then not recognize herhusband and would talk as the demon. After she hadbeen oppressed for twenty years, a neighbor became aChristian and took the preacher to see her. He foundthis idol treasured up in the bedroom, showing therebyunusual devotion, for the idols usually hang in the sittingroom. She allowed him to take it down and was soonhealed. But she had a son eleven years old. After thehealing, one day an idol procession was passing. He joinedin and from that date the demon came on him. After a yearor more, he too was healed. Then his sister-in-law wasafflicted. In these cases the three all manifested the samesymptoms, including, what is not so common, vomitingand purging. Now, was the sons case due to heredity? * Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases, p. i ^PwBKPP^r01. DEMON ISM OF PSYCHIC ORIGIN 47 If so, how explain the evident connection with idolatry ?How explain the daughter-in-laws case? How explainthe fact that neither of these cases occurred until themother was healed ?* 3. On the question of etiology, epilepsy needsespecial elucidation. The appearance of epilepsy amongthe demonized and possibly of demonism among theepileptic, has in this hitherto unanalyzed subject led tohopeless confusion. What is epilepsy ? Science is not prepared tocommit itself. But the trend of opinion is to putepilepsy among the diseases expressed in organic interprets it as organic and Dunton, of theShepherd and Enoch Pratt Hospital, accepts his opinionon the ground that the marked increase of neurogliafibres necessarily implies degeneration in the tissue ofthe The general opinion that epilepsy is incurablerests, of course, on the interpretation of it as organic. There are, however, diseases recognized as epi
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