New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-06-05
an@sthesia extended as far up as her elbow

anasthesla extended as far up as her elbow
at est. "Now. resumed DR.. Hammond,
'to prove whether this will cure you for sure,
l am going to put on another plate that will
bring all the feeling back to your hand and
make it very tender indeed
Then, holding on rubber disk for about
a minute, DR.. Hammond took up the needle
again. Each time that he brought the point
OF it in contact with her skin the girl WINGED
and drew away her hand.
cit works all right, said the doctor, sup
pressing smile, shut now I want to put the
plate on the back of your neck before 90
any further. Now, the effect of my putting
this plate on the back of your neck will be to
make the top of your head burn. just as
soon as you feel the burning sensation let me
knoW.'s
When the plate of hard rubber had been
held to her neck about minute the girl said
the top of her head was getting hot. The
disk was held on about half a minute longer,
and when it was removed the girls face was
flushed and the tips of her ears were as red
as burning GOALS
similar experiment was tried on large,
strong, middle-aged woman, who had come
to be treated for paralysis. Holding rub
Der disk to the woman's forehead DR.. Ham
mond said: II want to see whether you can
be cured by the new metallic treatment. I
will hold this plate to your forehead and
the first sensation you feel you must tell
me-
"Don't You feel any changer asked DR..
Hammond, when he had been holding the
disk on the woman's forehead about
minute.
''No, sir was the reply.
Still another minute the disk was held in
the same place without effect. els it possible
that you don't feel any change? Don't you
feel any pain?'' said the doctor.
The woman shook her head.
Don't you feel something here?'' said the
doctor, placing his hand on the left side OF
the woman's head.
"No, sir, was the reply.
Half minute later she said, CHOW I feel
something
swell, what is it?''
"a kind of shootingg-pain through here,''
said the woman, putting her hand on her
his, and before another minute had elapsed
it.
he even deprived patient of his eyesight
by suggestion. Any physician who chooses
to practice the metal cure, he said, could Just
as we'll fill his case with chips, or bits of
chalk or leather, as to go to the expense of
filling it with the more expensive metallic
disk.
''This power of the mind over matter, as
it is called, is very curious he said. ssWe
have been in the habit of calling those who
practice according to this theory quacks and
humbugs. But that is not right. They do
what they claim to do in the majority of
cases. All that [ have done is to demon
strate that the potency does not exist in the
operator or his metallic discs, but rather in
the mind of the person operated on after re-
ceiving the suggestion from the operator.
You remember how people used to ridicule
those pretended doctors who practiced what
was called the power cure. They would tell
man to hold up his arm, for instance, and
then defy him to take it down again, thus
demonstrating their POWER Now it is a
fact that I have done the same thing,
though only by way of experiment. l once
tried the experiment on a man at my house.
l told him had found out new and most
potent means of curing people. To de-
monstrate it to him I told him to take hold
of little Japanese table that didn't weigh
m ore than pound and half, and defed
him to lift it off the floor. The man took
hold of it and strained himself terribly, but
he couldn't lift the table off the floor. At
last, after trying repeatedly to lift 1t, the
table fell to the floor crushed to ruins. The
man, instead of lifting, had all the time
been bearing down upon it with all his
might!''