Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-06-25
MIND AND BODY.
THE PHYSICAL MAN AFFECTED az
MENTAL CONDITIONS.
'foient Emotions aud Psssions-MedIcaI
students Attending Lecture. Charm
ing" Away ChiIis-wsrt Charm.--
success of an Animal HaCneti>t

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Nhen worried and vexed the common
saying Of the people is that tl,ey are out OF
sorts, aud Johu Hunter said there il not
natural action in the body. voluntary or in-
voluntary, that may not lie influenced 10y
the peculiar state Of the mind at the time
/ III Is welt known that be. in an excited con-
/ troNersy with one Of has hospital colleagues
fell dead ia one Of the wards.
Jaundice has been brought ON by care ami
anxiety. Cases have been recorded ~ stu
dents suffering by this affiiction. arising
from anxiety and fear before az examine
ton before the censors board az tho Royal
college OF Physicians IL car. will xii a
cat, though II have nine lives, and II TOO
much care will make a young man
gray aud turn an old man - clay. IL
may lie certain the violent emotions aud
passions will affect the system more last
ingly aud dsaStrously. John Hunter notei
that the hen in the raising ~ her
onsprlng Kept her boiy lean and meagre.
but II her chickens were taken from her
she soon got fat Substitute in these
cases the worry and anxietias II business
and every -day-life troubles. and the picture
Is unmistakabe. Fear and care are also
noticeable in their actions on the skin and
hair. Medical histories can show many a
Prisoner OF Chillon. so we'll da crii4d by
Byron, which j. no fanciful case In times
OF peril and threat Of invasion. numerous
cases of a sudden change Of the color ~ tho
hair have been recorded. Dr. L,vcuck
mentions a case of severe neuralgia occur
ing at night from fright ami fuun in the
morning that the inner portion Il the eye
brow and eyelashes had become white; he
also asserts that the natural grayne.s Of oil
age 1, connected with certain changes 10 the
nerve centers.
An English physician says that lectures
delivered 10 medical students frequently
produce unusual mental stimuli upon their
bodily feelings. and ia some cases specific
diseases have not only been simulated. bur
actually induced disea sed SYMPTOMS. A
fellow-stu lent, after hearing description
Of what Is usually called the Scotch fiddle
Ntch), was 80 influenced that persistent
itching was felt between his fingers, the re-
suit Of the morbid mental influences To
which he had been subjected Students
often fancy they have the very dis
eases which they hear described by
their teacher, aud the heart gener-
ally comes in for il, full share, AMI
II is almost impossible To persuade them
otherwise. II it is found that the influence
Of the mind and its imaginings may induce
tion may in some case / cure disease. Fright
especially has made u cures in gouty and
rheumatic invalils. We all know the effect
Of going to have a tooth extracted. .be pain
ceasing ON entering the operating room.
The faith cure may CONS in here i'm chronic
cases, the mind exercising its will power.
Luther taught that il 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 e. come under this cate
cory. / have come across several cases OF
this kind. Old women often possess this
faculty. Even in the time of Lucian. such
female practitioner were successful in such
cases. 4 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 intractable until
gentleman noticing the disfgure-
ment, asked to count them. Care
fully and solemnly noting down their num-
Der, he then said: You will not be troubled
with your warts after next Sunday" At
the time named they had disappeared.
wv, here the connection between the imag-
nation of some occult or mysterious power
and the cure was too close to leave doubt
that, as in other cases of bodily ailment, the
mind. which so frequently affects the body
to its hurt, had in turn favorably influenced
the physical organization.
No less parsonage than Lord Bacon him
self had a similar cure performed upon bis
hands by the English ambassadors lady at
Paris, who he adds, was a woman far from
The lady's procedure GER
tainly Detokened belief in some influences,
III .hn. ..I 10 Ma ,P
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 childhood. Then she
nailed the piece of lard with the fat side
toward the sun upon post Of her cham /
ber window, which looked toward the south. /
In the course of five weeks all the warts dis
appeared, and that great wart which he /
had 80 long endured for company The Il
substances used in wart 4
charms and incantations OF like nature at i
once reveal the fact of the real cure lying
in some direction other than that Of the
nostrum. beneath the material substance
used as a mere bait for the
the forces Of mind operate
through the medium Of the nervous impress
sion
Some ten or twelve years ago there ap-
peared in Philadelphia DIR. Newton. cell
ebrated animal magnetist; he made the
blind TO see and the deaf 10 hear; the rheu-
matte and the gouty came ON crutches and
walked away without them. l went with
young man whose hands were full of warts,
unrelievel by medicine; Newton blew on /
them and made several passes with his
hands and told him that in three weeks
there would not be solitary one left; this
proved so for within that time they had all
disappeared. In the above eve. ear, and
rheumatic cases there were frequent, and
many say, almost constant relapses; but the
relief afforded by Newton's magnetic infu-
ence over many of his patterns was certainly.
very wonderful.
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