CHAPTER III.
WILL DEVELOPMENT.
"Ce domaine de la Suggestion est immense.

Il n'y a pas un seul fait de notre vie mentale qui ne puisse etre reproduit et exagere artificiellement par ce moyen."-- _Binet et Frere, Le Magnetisme Animal_.
Omitting the many vague indications in earlier writers, as well as those drawn from ancient Oriental sources, we may note that POMPONATIUS or POMPONAZZO, an Italian, born in 1462, declared in a work entitled _De naturalium effectuum admirandorum Causis seu de Incantationibus_, that to cure disease it was necessary to use a strong will, and that the patient should have a vigorous imagination and much faith in the _prae cantator_.

PARACELSUS asserted the same thing in many passages directly and indirectly.

He regarded medicine as magic and the physician as a wizard who should by a powerful will act on the imagination of the patient.

But from some familiarity with the works of PARACELSUS--the first folio of the first full edition is before me as I write--I would say that it would be hard to declare what his marvelous mind did _not_ anticipate in whatever was allied to medicine and natural philosophy.