Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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9172The question might arise, To what extent do the distinctions thus made correspond to reality?
9172The whole question might more profitably be approached from another point of view: To what extent are the distinctions of this classification useful?
37144_ Hotsp._ Revolted Mortimer? 37144 An indifferent person remarking that it was a bad day, he immediately retorted,Sir, did you ever know God make a good one?"
37144Does Dr. Harpur, who announces in his preface, that he has quitted the beaten track, fulfil his promise in the course of his work?
37144In what manner are we to effect a cure?
37144It may be enquired, how we are to ascertain this increased, proportionate, and deficient activity of mind?
37144What species of delirium is that, which succeeds long continued and abstract calculation?
37144When medical persons are called upon to attend a commission of lunacy, they are always asked, whether the patient has had a_ lucid interval_?
37144Why should the most_ active_ characteristics of our nature be termed_ Passions_?
37144Would any rational practitioner, in a case of phrenitis, or in the delirium of fever, order his patient to be scourged?
37144_ Question._ Are you of opinion that warm and cold baths are necessary for lunatic patients?
37144and is his section on mental indications any thing but a prolix commentary on the doctrines of the ancients?
37144and, is it not necessary to distinguish the steps of the English empirics from the methods of treatment adopted in their public hospitals?
37144or, on the contrary, may not that which we attribute to a subtile policy, be merely the effect of circumstances?
44320Are the objections inseparable from the system?
44320Can he be justly held accountable, if the huge and complex machine goes wrong in any part?
44320Can he exercise a vigilant and efficient superintendence over the inmates?
44320Can he feel sure that his patients are well looked after, attended to according to his wishes, and kindly treated?
44320Can it be pretended that the very extensive asylums of this country, with their present corps of medical officers, furnish such conditions?
44320He puts the question,"Would a number of small asylums, under the denomination of lunatic wards, be more economical than one central asylum?"
44320His Lordship, in reply to the question( 765),"Have you any other remedies to apply to county asylums?"
44320How can a liberally- conducted lunatic ward be engrafted upon such a system?
44320How does it happen that this desideratum is not accomplished by the asylums in existence?
44320Indeed, will any one now- a- days advocate the"_ laissez faire_"system in the case of idiots?
44320Look to the fact, that in some of the existing large curative(?)
44320May not this practice be justly regarded as an abuse of the asylum?
44320Now if a sane adult pauper in a union- house costs even 4_s._ 6_d._ a week, is it probable that an insane one would cost less than 5_s._ 7_d._?
44320Ought such cases to swell the returns of lunacy?
44320The questions may be fairly put,--Are the irregularities inevitable?
44320What sort of attention, food, and lodging can be expected for some 3 or 4 shillings a week?
44320What sort of supervision and control can be looked for from a poor, illiterate labourer or artisan?
44320and what can be done to remedy discovered defects, and to secure the insane the best chances of recovery?
44320or upwards?
44320what are the impediments to success discoverable in their organization and management, or in the history of their inmates prior to admission?
36908'', I can only answer by asking,''Where is this"public opinion"and what does it look like?''
36908''And, David,( is not that your Christian name?)
36908''Well, of course, if you deceive the spirits like that how can you expect the truth in return?''
36908''What dug- out, sir?''
36908( Feda(_ sotto voce_): Did he hop, Raymond?)
36908( N. M. L. asks):''Play what?''
36908( No bite)--Georgina?
36908A delightful example of Sir Oliver''s anxiety to help the medium occurs on page 256:-- O. J. L.:''Do you remember a bird in our garden?''
36908And any voice?
36908At a London séance on December 20th, 1915, with the same medium there occurs the following:--( Question):''What used he to sing?''
36908At this she asked,''Which one?''
36908At this stage he was told,''You felt like that in France, what was it?''
36908But when I showed this spirit photograph to a friend, with a query as to sex, she answered,''But it_ is_ a woman, is n''t it?
36908Can we voluntarily forget?
36908Did you even know you were shifting it?
36908Did you think,''My leg is beginning to feel tired, I''ll shift it?''
36908Do you see Papa?"
36908Friends had told me of his gifts and had met my incredulity with''How do you explain this?''
36908He is which had reached England?
36908Here are the important ones:-- O. J. L.:''Do you recollect the photograph at all?''
36908How did the word come to be selected?
36908How did this joint error of observation arise?
36908I can not answer either except by putting a new one, which is,''Do we ever forget?''
36908I mean was he standing up?''
36908I wonder how Mr. Carrington explains the failure of previous observers to detect the trickery?
36908If by that is meant,''Can we voluntarily lose the power of voluntary recall?''
36908If one asks,''Where is this unconscious and what does it look like?
36908If we specify the factors concerned in memory and say that it depends upon impression, retention, and recall, then what do we mean by''forgetting''?
36908In the early stage of the disease some one examines the arm, pricks it, and asks,''Do you feel that?''
36908In the one place the old countryman said,"How can he get water there?
36908Instead of this the procedure was:''I hear a name, is it George?
36908Later on his chief asks him,''How did you spot this case?''
36908Next a yacht appears out of the spirit world, and O. J. L. asks:''What about the yacht with sails, did it run on the water?''
36908Not yet?
36908O. J. L.''Did it go along?''
36908O. J. L.:''Did he have a stick?''
36908O. J. L.:''Does he remember how he looked in the photograph?''
36908O. J. L.:''Was it out of doors?''
36908She was a stranger to the photographer, so how could he produce the likeness even if he substituted his own plates?
36908Surely an out- of- door family like this includes at least one fisherman; why not think out who he is and score another bull''s- eye to the medium?
36908The first question was,''Who is Brown?''
36908The question is taken by the patient to mean that the doctor expects that the prick will not be felt-- or why should he ask?
36908The second question may be compared with''Did you feel that?''
36908Then begins his conflict; like the patient who successfully feigns symptoms, he finds withdrawal difficult:--''You''d prove firmer in his place?
36908Then, the medium having discovered that O. J. L.''s family had a tent by the water, O. J. L. asks:''Is it all one chamber in the tent?''
36908What are two failures against three and a half years''manifestations that''had grown more and more numerous and bewildering as time went on''?
36908What can be more authoritative and confident than the manner of a man who believes what he says and knows that his hearers are willing to believe?
36908What could be more convincing?
36908What does it effect?
36908What has been happening all this time in the mind of the patient?
36908When Sir Oliver asks concerning a yacht,''Did it run on the water?''
36908Whence does he obtain his evidence that the medium had heard nothing of the incident?
36908While a light whisked"..."Shaped somewhat like a star?
36908Who can say that, in the days when Home- Rulers and anti- Home- Rulers abounded, the average voter was swayed by a reasoned knowledge of the subject?
36908You mean yes, do n''t you?''
36908[ Illustration] How can we explain this belief on the one hand and the trickery on the other?