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Title: Demonism verified and analyzed
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: White, Hugh Watt, 1870-1940
Subjects: Demoniac possession Personality disorders
Publisher: (Yencheng, Kiangsu, China) The author Richmond, Va., The Presbyterian committee of publication (etc., etc.)
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-in-law. My No. 67, while a maiden, worshipped a large paper3idol, and became afflicted with demonism. After marriage!it persisted. Whenever she omitted the burning of in--cense, she would feel badly, would then not recognize her-!husband and would talk as the demon. After she had?been oppressed for twenty years, a neighbor became aChristian and took the preacher to see her. He found)this idol treasured up in the bedroom, showing thereby?unusual devotion, for the idols usually hang in the sitting^room. She allowed him to take it down and was soon;healed. But she had a son eleven years old. After theihealing, one day an idol procession was passing. He joined;in and from that date the demon came on him. After a yearjor more, he too was healed. Then his sister-in-law was-afflicted. 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
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DEMONISM 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 terras.Spratling 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 brain, j The general opinion that epilepsy is incurablerests, of course, on the interpretation of it as organic. There are, however, diseases recognized as epilepti-form, to say the least, which

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