Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-22
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HIND AND BODY.
Ahc Physical Man Affected by Nfep.
tai Conditions.
IDr. J. Kitchen, in Hahnemanpion ,K1ntb,r

lDr' }. Kitchen, in Hahnemannian Monthly
When worried and vexed the common
saying OF the people is that they are ont
OF sorts, and John Hunter said there is
not natural action in the BODY. yolun.
Sary or involuntary, that may not be in.
nuenced by the peculiar state of the mind
at the Tune. 1t is well known that he. in
an excited controversy with one of his
nospltal colleagues, fell dead in one of the
wards. INV - 'iie
Jaundlce has been brought on bv care
and anxiety. Cases have been recorded
OF students suffering by this affliction
arising from anxiety and fear before an
examination before the censors board of
the Royal College of Physicians. If care
Will Kill cat, though it have nine lives,
and II too much care will make a YOUNG
man gray and turn an old man to CLAW #
may be certain the violent emotions and
passions will effect the system more last
ngly and disastrouslv. John Hunter
noted that the hen in the raising of her
! offspring kept her body lean and meagre.
but II her chickens were taken from her
she soon got fat. Substitute in these
cases the worry and anXieties of business
and every-day-life troubles, and the pic
ture IS unmiStakable. Fear and care are
also noticeable in their actions on the
| skin and hair Medical histories can
! show many Prisoner OF Chillon, so well
described by Byron, which is no fanciful
case. In times of peril and threats of in
VaSlon, numerous cases of a sudden
| change of the color of the hair have been
| recorded. DIR. Laycock mentions a case
OF severe neuralgia occurring at night
from fright, and found in the morning
that the inner portion of the eyebrow and
eyelashes had become white; he also
asserts that the natural grayness of old
age is connected with certain changes in
the nerve centers.
An English physician says that lee
lures delivered to medical students fire.
quently produce unusual mental stimuli
upon their bodily feelings, and in some
cases specific diseases have not only been
simulated, but actually induced diseased
symptoms. 4 fellow student, after hear
ing description of what is usually called
the Scotch fiddle (itch), was so influenced
that persistent itching was felt between
his fingers, the result of the morbid men
tai influences to which he had been sub
jected. Students often fancy that they
have the very diseases which they hear
described by their teachers, and the
heart generally comes in for its full share,
and it is almost impossible to persuade
them otherwise. If it is found that the
influence of the mind and its imaginings
may induce diseases, it is no less certain
that a like action in some cases, cure dis
eases. Fright especially has made its
cures in equity and rheumatic invalids.
We all know the effect of going to have
tooth extracted, the pain ceasing on en-
tering the operating room. The faith
cure may come in here in chronic cases,
the mind exercising its will power.
Luther taught that if man had faith, he
could accomplish anything, even commit
any kind of sin without guilt.
The charming away of chills and fevers
and of warts seems to come under this
category | have come across several
cases of this kind. Old women often
possess this faculty. Even in the time of
Lucian, such female practitioners were
successful in such cases. A surgeons
daughter had about a dozen on her hands,
the usual modes of treatment having
availed nothing for their removal. For
eighteen months they remained intracta-
| BILE, until gentleman noticing the distig-
urement, asked to count them. Carefully
/ and solemnly noting down their number,
! he then said: "You will not be troubled
with your warts after next Sunday" AT
the time named they had disappeared.
Now, here the connection between the
| imagination of some occult and mysteri
Gus power and the cure was too close to
! leave a doubt that, as in other cases OF
bodily ailment, the mind, which so fire.
uuently affects the body to its hurt, had
in turn favorably influenced the physical
organization.
No less a parsonage than Lord Bacon
himself had similar cure performed
upon his hands by the English ambassa-
doris lady at Paris, who, he adds, was a
woman far from superstitious. The lady's
procedure certainly betokened belief in
some influences, for Bacon tells us that,
taking ga piece of lard with the skin on, !"
she rubbed the warts all over with the
fat side, and among the growths so
treated was one he had had since child
hood. Then she nailed the piece OF lard
with the fat side toward the sun upon a
post of her chamber window, which
| looked toward the south. In the course
of five weeks all the warts disappeared
and that great wart which he had SO
long endured for company The mlscel-
laneous substances used in wart charms
and incantations of like nature, at once
reveal the fact of the real cure lying in
some direction other than that OF the
nostrum, beneath the material substance
unconsciously used as mere bait for the
imagination, the forces of mind operate
through the medium Of the nervous I'M
preston.
Some ten or twelve years ago there ap-
peared in Philadelphia a DIR. Newton, q
celebrated animal magnetist; he made
the blind to see and the deaf to hear; the
rheumatic and the equity came on crutches
and walked away without them. L wen
with Young man whose hands were ful
Of warts. unrelieved by medicine; New
ton blew on them and made severa
masses with his hands and told him tina
in three weeks there would not be soil
tary one left; this proved so, for within
that time they had all disappeared. Ii
tba above eve, ear, and rheumatic cases
there were frequent, and many say, a, al
most constant relapses; but the relle
alff5, bv Newton's magnetic influence
over over many of his patients was certain.
very wonderful.
Chatauqua Agricultural Science.
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