The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-31
The Faith" Doctor.

is from the Muscatine Journal, re-
garding his recent visit to that city:
DR.. Paul Caster Is holding q regular
levee at the National. The lame, the
halt, the sick, the blind, the asthma
tic, the consumptive. the superanuated
and those otherwise afflicted are being
brought in from near and from far.
The hotel is besieged with suffering
humanity. who began to arrive even
before the Doctor. The halls, doors,
stairways and the porch swarm With
them. The place looks like an extern
sive hospital. and the regular boarders
who, while In the army, experienced
the delights and comforts O Of hospi-
tai life, feel quite at home as they
thread their way through the crowds
Of unfortunates and take their meals
sandwitched between cripples. Some
OF the patients are from Clarence and
Pedee, Cedar county. solon, johnson
county, different parts Of Louisa
county. and from Illinois. Much the
greater part Of them are from outside
the city.
Some wonderful cures are reported.
Yesterday An old lady named Eyeland
appeared on crutches for treatment.
having been obliged to use them sew
eral years. The doctor, chanting y
sort Of tune, and going through form
of invocation. commanded her to
shoulder her crutches and follow him.
She did 80, walking after him with
apparent ease, greatly to her astonish-
ment and delight. A girl similarly
affected was treated with like success.
We noticed this morning, however,
that she had to again resort to her
crutches. but rs the Doctor requires
each patient to be treated at least three
days we presume he has not yet got
through with her case.
This forenoon, through curiosity, we
called for a short time at the Doctors
room to witness his experiments and
method Of treatment. One man was
eased of pain in an liberated leg, an
other Of pain in the back, aud two of
chronic constipation. One was treated
for paralysis, but expressed no imme
diate relief. Two were examined
one with defnrmed leg and the other,
an old man, with nervous pArslys sis
and their cases frankly pronounced
hopeless. In al these cases the treat-
ment WAS by rubbing the diseased
with the hands and by percussion or
slapping. accompanied with q sort OF
Incarnation. No medicine il used
One man IL. l.. Ireland, of Atalissa),
was cured almost instantly Of a pain |
in the stomach, with which he had
suffered constantly four years. He
stood about eight feet from the Doe
tor, who did not touch him at any
time, but, rubbing his hands together,
commanded the evil to 60 out Of him.
The Doctor, addressing his remarks
partly to us and partly to those stand
ing around him, said he could not tell |
from whence came his power to work
THESE CutcS-WuC uClucI IiOLl you VI tue |
devil. IF the devil gives me the
power to relieve these 81 tferers," said |
he. "then he is not as bad as he has
been represented" He says he is
charged, by some, with wearing q
magnetic belt. or having medicine
concealed about him, but is willing to |
submit to an examination and to for
felt $40 If any thing Of the kind is
found.
The doctor seems overfowing with
good humor and cracks jokes almost
constantly with his patients. He
seems to be about fifty years old, his
hair and large gostee which he sports
being tinged with gray. Physically,
he is large, healthy man. with an
impediment In his speech, but no
lack Of proper words to express his
thoughts. The secret Of his power
probably consists partly in the super
abundance Of animal magnetism with
which nature has supplied him, and
partly in his ability to inspire conf
dence or faith in the minds OF his pa
tients.