phrenopathyn.

1843 Magnet June facing p. 1 Its pages are enriched with Essays and Communications, detailing Facts, in illustration of Phrenopathy, which teaches the influences and susceptibilities of the Human Brain, and the method of controlling its separate organs by Pathetism.

1845 Lancet 1 Feb. 118/1 Mesmero-phrenology, phreno-magnetism, or phrenopathy, is a combination of the most startling parts of mesmerism with the least probable ones of phrenology.

1853 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 10 457 We have, therefore, a number of words of which Phren is the radical—as Phrenopathy mental disease.

1889 Lancet 23 Mar. 593/1 Eminent alienists find Passanante labouring under what professor Tamburini classifies as a ‘frenopathia sistematizzata con delirio di persecuzione e megalomania’ (systematised phrenopathy with delusions of persecution and moral exaltation).

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 197 The various types and classes of the phrenopathies.

1903 Lancet 29 Aug. 619/1 The delirium of many fevers is undoubtedly a ‘phrenopathy’—a mental disorder.

2000 Bioorganic & Med. Chem. 8 2071/1 Long-term alcohol consumption not only causes organ dysfunctions but also can cause phrenopathy and have threatening social effects.

1855 Asylum Jrnl. No. 11. 161/2 Phrenopathy is not so fashionable as homœopathy.

1864 Lancet 9 July 46/2 In the interests of the present and future conditions of asylums, and in that of practical and theoretical phrenopathy, a special committee shall be appointed to draw up a report.

1881 W. F. Evans Divine Law of Cure 9 in H. W. Dresser Hist. New Thought Movement (1919) iv The present volume of the author is an attempt to construct a theoretical and practical system of phrenopathy, or mental-cure, on the basis of the idealistic philosophy of Berkeley, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.

1999 Nature 7 Jan. 35/3 Thereafter it [sc. mesmerism] gained strength, first as a healing science, then manifesting itself in intuitive diagnostics, prescience, phrenopathy and anaesthesia.

1843 L. R. Sunderland in Magnet 13 (heading) Phrenopathic experiments.

1851 J. J. G. Wilkinson Human Body 411 (note) Thus where a disease from the mind is sympathetically felt in the body considered as the extremity of the mind, phrenopathic means will cure it.

1855 Asylum Jrnl. No. 11. 161/2 Why should not some other literary invalid..give to the world an..account of his sensations and his perceptions..during his residence in a phrenopathic institution?

1887 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 142/2 Mr. Evans is positive in his belief that the phrenopathic system, as he calls it, or the mind cure, as others name it, is a practical expression of the occult laws of Christ.

1981 J. S. Haller Amer. Med. in Transition 141 Central to the phrenopathic method of cure was the law of mental sympathy, which implied a state of ‘intercommunion of mind with mind’ through thoughts, ideas, and feelings.