Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09

ris has, perhaps, saved her life by act
ing upon the stage just enough to ena-
bic her mind to reconstruct, from time
to time, her delicate physique. One of
the old poets said: 1.-THE soul doth the
body make"-it beng q well-known
fact that the educated and powerful
mind makes the face into its own like
ness.
This is, then, the philosophy of the
mind cure. 1t can do much for man,
and is not to be approached because it
can not do every thing. If the influence
of the mind may benefit one sick person
in twenty-five. it VII then surpass in
value many popular medicines; and if
it shall prevent many others from fall
ing into imaginary illness, it will con-
fer second benefit upon the commu-
nifty. Man is not in a condition to reject
the help of any of Natures kind offers.
BY means of all these discovered helps
the evils of ill-health may be m;tigated
if not banished from the world. viii,
energy, medicine, fast; ng, good air,
good food. good water, are all friends
of health, but no one of these is master
of the entire field of ailment. He will
act most wisely who employs all these
causes at different times of need.
The Instances in which the body is
languishng under only a feeble will
power are very many. A delicately-
organized lady OF Chicago lay sick a
few weeks with lung fever, and became
so accustomed to feebleness that at last
she had to be told very plainly by her
physician that she was well and that
the supper table. She has lived to
1ov crh hn ;f,yo -
perhaps two weeks in bed after she had
fully recovered.
A citizen of Chicago who had been
in his bedroom for few weeks, and
no thought of going out to business for
a week or more. was cured by con-
Migration in a neighbours house. He
went out to help save life and property,
and became so fully aroused that his
bedroom lost its charm. He dined w tn
his family and resumed business next
dav, being unable to sink back to
feebleness.
With masses of such evidences of the
power OF mind over matter, either to
weaken it or to build it up, it is high
time for us all to invoke the aid of this
spiritual influence in not few days of
life; but to call it a general practice of
medicine is to attempt to make part
equal the whole. This feat the new
practitioners are attempting to per-
form. They are even attempting to
cure disease when 1t is far away from
the alleged doctor-the doctor throw
ing his mental force thousand miles,
and making It land Ike a bombshell
amid the works of the enemy. This is
that reductio ad absurdum which has
been common in all times. Phreno-
logy was an attempt to carry few
general truths into a most detailed
science; Socialism was an effort
to take up the law of order
and apply it until society should
become precise machine; Thoreau at
tempted to simplify man until he could
live alone on ten dollars year; Quak-
erism was an attempt to kill off all
colors except drab, and all music ex-
cept the sing-song of their speeches at
meeting.
But all these efforts to force the uni
verse into one fact or one fancy will
ia |. and the metaphysical Doctors"
will have the modification of taking
some backsteps. They can help our
world but not by prom sing, like a
patent med cine, to cure every form of
disorder. They should be satisfied
with the study and practice of art
which may accomplish much good for
society. Swing, in Chicago Cur
rent.