Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-13
The MIND CURE.


Darid Sizing, ia Current.
On account OF the dignity and wise look
Of large words, science never used simple
Term when large one can be impressed
INTO ser ice. Thus the sleep produced by
long gazing at q bright object or oy th7
hands OF q mesmer IS called hspnotlsn
ahile the sleep which comes from disease Is
profound coma Following this tendency
otsclence to use high sounding terms, thos
who discovered the value of the mind IL
overcoming disease saw bit TO name the fac
or The ory the metaphysical cure. AS those
who are the parents OF q child have the right
10 L sme ii, so these discoveries OF a neS
power in the mind had perfect right t.
call it By the name that most pleased
rh,m.
II has always been known that the mind
can exert q good or bad influence over the
oody. The old mental PHILOSOPHERS were
tull of stories which had q tendency to show
now persons had taken to bed after having
been told by q succession Of acquaintance
about the dreadful paleness Of face or of a
most unhealthy expression OF the eyes. 1t
MAS also affirmed IN the olden newspapers
that some mischieyous wife made her hus
band believe that he was swelling up with
dropsy, and should by all means hasten to
German Springs, and should take her along
as nurse, his condition being so critical.
he wife thus secured q trip to Europe
her art being tina, Of taking pieces out OF her
husbands vests, so that II became almost
impossible for him to make them reach
around his abnormal body.
The metaphysical cure II, therefore, not
a discovery, but the expansion into med e
cal practice Of power which had once
been htlle else than earnestly. A tenden
CT of our age is TO utilize forces. Nothing
so pains the American mind as the thought
OF having anything go TO waste We are
nov in q worry lest there may be On electric
potency that might turn all our wheels; We
are attempting TO run engines by sunoeamsi
rue waste of water power at Niagara Is the
grief of many; while those who have escaped
these forms Of distress are made unhappy
because the air is not as full Of balloons a.
the streets are OF cars aud wagons.
In such q day it WAS very. naturally con
/ cluded that If mind has potter over health
and disease, lst US utilize tbas power. Lsr
us not permit the force to escape ali duty
/ like the waters OF Niagara: Let US no
us not permit artful women to use 1t as &
means Of inducing dropsy and foreign
| trip. Let US domeslcate tbs mental InHd
/ epIe and extract from 1t valuable service.
Thus came the metaphysical cure, soou
eight or ten years ago. Ia the hands o.
extremists il is made partly one of the DE-
lusiUus of the world, but in the hands o
| he wise and moderate it is tonic OF grea
value, and will 1isplAce a large amour: o
omnine and wild cherry bitters Its phllos
rphy may all be summed up in the fac
hat The soul affects the BODY add Cal
rouse I'D its torpid blood can make tn
liver, heart, lungs and the braiu-thst nerv
cenrer-uuicken their pace and use up o
crowd out the diseased globules from tn
blood and fluids Clara Morris, has, pei
hsps, saved her life By acting en- the stag
lust enough TO enable her mind to recor
srruct, from time to time her dehcAi
physique. One of the old poets said,
The soul doth the body make"
it being q well known fact that the educate
and powerful mind makes the face into II
own likeness.
This, then, the philosophy Of the min
cure. 1t cen do much for msu, and is nc
10 be reproached becsuseit cannot do ever!
thing. II the influence OF the mind ma
benefit one sick person in twenty-five, 1t wi
then surpsSs in value many popuar med
cines; and if it shall prevent many Other
from falling into an imaginary illness,
will confer a second benefit upon the cou
munity. Man is not in condition TO rejeC
any Of natures kind offers. By means
ali these discovered helps the ev Is of i
health may be mitigsted, If not bsuishe
from the word. Will, energy, mediciu
fasting, good sir, good food, good waite
are all friends Of heath, but no one of Ihes
is master of the entire field of silmeuL q
will act wisely who employs all these cause
n different times of need.
The instances in which the body IS lar
} gushing under only feeble will power al
very many. A deicstely organized Ia " {
Chicago lsy sick few weeks with lur
fever, and became 80 accustomed TO teebl
ness that at last she had to be told vel
plainly By her physician that she was vel
and that she must rise, dress, and go dow
TO the supper table. She has lived to laug
over the absurdity Of spending perhaps ~
weeks in bed after she had fully reeovere,
A citizen of Chicago who had been IN b
bedroom fer q few weeks, and had 4
thought of going out to business for wee
or more, was cured By eonaagration in
neighbor's house. he went our 70 save h
and property, and became so fully arouse
that his bedroom o.. Its charm. he dine
with bis family and resumed business Ne!
day, being unable to sink back to feebi
ness
With masses o. such evidence of th
power Of mind over matter either to Seske
IL or 70 build it up, il is high time for Us =
10 invoke the aid of this spiritual inhuenC
in not feR wars OF life; but TO call it
general prA ,tice of medicine is to stsemE
TO make part equal the whole. This fe'
the new practitioners are attempting to pc
form. They are even attempting to cut
disease when it is far away from the sllege
doctor--the doctor throsing his menu
force q thousand miles, and making it lsr
ike 3 boubshell amid the works Of Il
enemy. This is that reduction sbSurdu
which has been common in all time
Pbrenology Vas an attempts to carry +
general truths into q most detsil'