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Identifier: demonismverifie00whit (find matches)
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.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Illus. 5. The bund woman and her neighbor. DEMONISM VS. INSANITY 17 means. This excludes most of the insanities, especiallythose in organic terms, brain lesion, focal disturbances^general paresis. Epilepsy and paranoia are generallyconsidered incurable, though epileptoid and paranoiacforms have been cured. Now take my case No. 320, widely known as TheWizard. He and his wife report that his trouble cameon originally as an attack of what seemed to be idiocy*He was abed, quite ill for some time, talking idiot-like.Believing it to be a demon, he yielded to the control^and the spell passed off. But he was compelled topractice wizardry, and occasionally would have spells likethe first one. This continued for ten years. But hewas healed by Christianity. Now his whole appearancehas changed, and for four years he has been entirelynormal.* My No. 78 is another striking case. A girl ofsixteen became afflicted. She was married. The yearswent by. She became old and wrinkled. Still it con-tinued. U

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