"All illustrations in this book are photographs of MENTAL PICTURES"
As a boy, Charles Littlefield ("author, scientist, physician") had a wounded foot miraculously healed when a man called George Washburn recited a "certain passage of scripture, with some substitutions". This experience led Littlefield in adult life to investigate how such charms did their work.
If there's such a thing as ESP, then surely it can be employed in the cause of psychotherapy. That's the idea behind this book, and if you believe in such phenomena it might seem attractive. Before letting a self-styled psychic recommend treatment for actual patients, though, wouldn't it be wise to check whether they indeed possessed the abilities they lay claim to? You'd think so, wouldn't you?
(Or, "Think and Grow Boobs".)
The myth that we only use 10% of our brains is an enduring one though completely without foundation. If it were true, though, it would mean that anyone possessing the secret of using the other 90% could make him or herself ten times smarter, which would be jolly useful, wouldn't it?.
On its title page this little book claims to be “a study of the sacred laws that govern the sex forces” which will teach “how to preserve and strengthen and retain the vital powers”. The largest part of the book was written by Arthur Gould, with a few final chapters appended by Dr Dubois.
For some reason it has been the pattern for those of the early health food and breakfast cereal companies that are still extant to have been created by the combined vision of a pair of men, one a practical businessman and the other a health food nut: Kellogg's was founded by the brothers William Keith Kellogg and John Harvey Kellogg; Ralston Purina was started by
The author, as well as having a forename which is an anagram of his surname, had some unusual beliefs about what is bad and what is good for human beings. I have taken the liberty of reproducing here some short exemplary passages. First, one of the Life-Shortening Habits:-
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