Produced by Don Kostuch [Transcriber's Notes] Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred in the original book. This book is derived from a copy on the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/religionandheal02walsgoog Obvious spelling or typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling of names and inventive and alternative spelling is left as printed. Extended quotations and citations are indented such as reports, letters and interviews. [End Transcriber's Notes] RELIGION AND HEALTH BY JAMES J. WALSH, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D. etc. MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY, PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, CATHEDRAL COLLEGE LECTURER ON PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY, MARYWOOD COLLEGE, SCRANTON, PA., MT. ST. MARY'S, PLAINFIELD, N.J. BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1920 _Copyright, 1920_, By Little, Brown, and Company. _All rights reserved_ Published October, 1920 _Norwood Press_ Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. To HIS EMINENCE JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS AN EXEMPLAR OF RELIGION AND HEALTH FOR OUR GENERATION CONTENTS Page Introduction 1 CHAPTER I Can We Still Believe? 8 II Prayer 33 III Sacrifice 59 IV Charity 80 V Fasting and Abstinence 109 VI Holydays and Holidays 120 VII Recreation and Dissipation 132 VIII Mortification 147 IX Excesses 168 X Purity 184 XI Insanity 205 XII Nervous Disease 217 XIII Dreads 234 XIV Suffering 254 XV Pain 265 XVI Suicide and Homicide 277 XVII Longevity 294 XVIII The Bible and Health 306 XIX Health and Religion 319 Index 333 {1} RELIGION AND HEALTH INTRODUCTION