Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-04-23

AuHucuct vi the NINA on Sensations,
Every one knows that the secretion
of bile, the secretion of tears, and the
secretion of saliva are very much under
the influence of the nervous system.
The purging of the bowels, which de-
ponds on secretion there, or q score
ton In the liver, is also much dependent
on the influence of the Imagination
The Emperor Nicholas tried to see what
power there was In the imagination in
that respect. Bread-crumb pills were
given to a great many patients, and, as
a result, most of them were purged. In
one case student, not of medicine but
of theology, having the idea that the
word pill meant purgative, looked for
"pill' in the dictionary; and the first
kind of pills that he found there was
one composed mainly of opium and
henbane, both astringents, and capable
of producing great constipation. He
wanted to be purged, and took GER
tain number of these pills, and instead
of becoming constipated he was purged
Just as he wished to be.
Vomiting may be produced in the
same way. Du eros, French physiol-
ogist, tells of trial made In hospital
by q nurse, who went around and gave
to all the patients 8 very harmless kind
of medicine, and then told them that
she was sorry that she had b. mistake
given them all powerful emetics. Out
OF 160 patients, so were affected as if
thev had taken the most violent emetic
and vonlited for long time.
This we see on very large scale on
seaboard every summer. / have no
doubt whatever that sea-sickness is In
a great measure due to that, and if you
could go on board of steamer, with
the idea that you would not vomit am
well satisfied, from experiments / have
made, that you would escape great deal
of sea-sickness, if you did not escape
it altogether. One fact recall is very
interesting. A person had crossed, on
one occasion, small bay where it was
the violin on the boat. The person 1
refer to was terribly sea-sick and vomi-
ted great deal. He had not, of course,
made up his mind that he could not be
sick. However, the point is that after
that he could never hear q violin with
out vomiting.
To pass to something more serious !:
You have all heard of what are called
the stignaata-marks representing the
wounds on the limbs of Christ. Those
marks have appeared in persons who
have dreamed or imagined that they
were crucified and suffering the pains of
Christ, having invoked the goodness of
God to let them have that suffering to
punish them for their faults. The most
remarkable fact of that kind is that
concerning st. Francis of Assist. There
is no doubt that he had the mark as
clear as possible. If you compare with
this fact one which is related by Dr.
Carter you will have the explanation of
it. DIR. Carter says that while moth
er was looking at her child who was
standing at a window with the fingers
on the border of the window just under
the lifted sash, she saw the sash come
down with great force and crush the
three fingers of the poor child. The
mother remained unable 10 move, feel
ing Immediately a pain on the three
fingers at the very place where the child
had been injured. Her fingers swelled,
an effusion of blood took place and ul-
ceration followed and she was long
time in being cured.-Dr. Browm-Se-
guards Lecture in NetD York.