Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-04-29
Effects that Border on the Miraculous.

Not only anesthesis may be pro.
duced, but the secrotions may be very
powerfully affected by the influence Of
the mind over the body, says DR.
Brown-Sequard. Here We find facts
of great importance indeed. There
are many facts which show that the
secretions of milk may become poison.
GUS for child from mere emotion
in the mother, and especially from
anger. And il it were not the duty OF
every one to avoid anger it would
certainly be the duty of young
mother who has TO nurse o child.
There are cases, although they are not
common, in which death has resulted;
and alterations Of health in children
from this cause are very frequent.
A great many men who have reached
an adult ago owe their i'll health to
such an influence in childhood.
Every one knows, also, that the SO.
cretion of bile, the secretion of tears,
and the secretion OF saliva are very
much under the influence of the ncrv.
oas system. The purging of the bow
els, which depends on secretion there,
or secretion In the liver, is also much
dependent on the influence of the i'm.
agination. The Emperor Nicholas
tried to see what power there is in
the imagination in that respect Bread
crumbpills were given to great many
patients, and, as result, most of them
were purged. In one case a student,
not OF medicine but of theology, having
the idea that the word pill meant a
looked for "pillv in the
dictionary; and the first kind of pills
that he found there was one composed
mainly OF opium and benbane, both
astrlngents, and capable OF producing
great constipation. He wanted to be
purged, and took certain number of
these pills, and instead of. becoming
constipatcd he was purged just as be
wished to be.
Vomiting may be produced in the
same way. Du Cros, French pbysi-
ologist, tells of trial made in hos
pital by a nurse who went around and
gave to all the patients very harm
less kind OF medicine, and then told
Them that she was sorry that she
had by mistake given them all very
powerful emetics Out of 100 patients
80 wcrc affected as If they Lad taken
,hc most violent emctic and yomited
or long timo.
This We SEQ on very large scale on
Iea-board every summer. | have no
ioubt whatever that sea sickness is in
great measure due to that, and If YOU
'ould 60 on board of steamer with
he idea that you would not vomit |
i'm well satisfied, from experiments |
ave made, that you would escape a
,reat deal of sea-sickncss, if you did
lot escape it altogether One fact |
ecall is very interesting. A person
lad crossed, on one occasion, small
ay when IL was very rough. There
vas man playing the violin on the
oat The person | refer TO was terri.
y sea-sick and vomited great deal. {
ic had not, of course, made up his {
,ind that he could not be sick. How. {
yer, tho point is that after that he {
ould never hear q violin without G
omiting.
10 pass to something moro serious |
ou have all heard of what are !
allied stigmdta-marks representing 9
no wounds on the limbs of Christ. T
hcse marks have appeared in persons a
bo have dreamed or imagined that ,
icy were crucifed and suffering the
aims Of Christ, having invoked the 4
oodness of God to let them have that I
iflerlng to punish them for their h
ulis. The most remarkable fact of {
'at Kind is that concerning st. Fran O
s OF Assist There is no doubt that b
had the mark as clear as possible. 0
you compare with this iact one 81
hlch is related by DIR. Carter you il
Ill have tho explanation of it. DR..
arter says that while mother was p
oking at her child who was standing n
o window with tho fingers on the "
rider OF the window just under tho a
led sash, she saw the sash como b
'wn with great force and crush the c,
rec fingers Of the poor child. The ST
other remained unable to move, feel r,
8 Immediately pain on tho thrcc al
gers at tho very place whore the ct
ia had been injured. Her fingers u
'cllod, an effusion of blood took place
d liberation followed and she was q
ng time In being cured. If in tho n,
50 OF this mother the Imagination d,
uld produce such results, you will fr
IN the caso Of tho stigmata tho W
agination may have been equally II