Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-07-08
THE mind CURE"
PROFESSOR DAVID SWINGS VIEWS OF
"PsYcHo-THeRArEUTicsp
Stories Of the Old MISREPRESENTATION
Tales-"Let Us Domesticate This
Mental Influence and Extract
from 1t Valuable Service"
Professor swing IN The Current. !


professor Swing In The Current
On account of the dignity end wise look
OF large words, science never uses simple
term when large one can 10 Impressed
into service. Thus the sleep produced BY
long gazing Mt bright object or b. the
hands Of Me'mer is called hypnDtsm.
while the sleep which come from di-eaSe is
called profound coma Foil wing thi,
tendency Of science to use high-sounding
terms, those who discovered the value o.
the mind in overcoming disease saw fit to
name the fact or theory the metaphy steal
cure. As those who are the parents Of a
child have right to nams it, SO these dis
ccverers Of a new power in the mind had
perfect right to call it by the name that
most pleased them
1t has always been known that thu mi nd
can exert a good or bad influence over the
body. The old mental philosophie, were
full of stories which had tendency TO show
how persons had taken to BID after having
been told, by q succession Of acquaintance,
about the dreadful paleness of face or Of
most unhealthy expression Of the eyes. II
was also affirmed in the olden newspapers,
that some mischievous wife made her nus
band believe that he was swelling up with
dropsy, and should by all means hasten to
the German springs, and should take her
along as nurse. his condition being so crit
ical The wife thus secured a trip to
Europe-her art being that of taking pieces
out Of her husbands vests, so that it became
almost impossible for him to make them
reach around his abnormal body.
TIE metaphysical cure is, therefore, not a
discovery, but the expansion into a medical
practice OF a power which had once been
little else than a curiosity. A tendency of
our age is to utilize forceS Nothing SO
pains the American mind as the thought of
having any thing go to waste We are now
in worry lest there may be an electric po-
tency that might turn all our wheels; We
are attempting TO run engines by sunbeams;
the waste OF water-power at Niagara is the
grief Of many; while those who have es-
capped these forms of distress are made un-
happy because the air is not as full of bal
looms rs the streets are Of cars and wagons
In such a day it was very naturally con-
cluded that il mind has a power over health
and disease, let US utilize this power. Let
US not permit the force t. escape all duty,
like the waters of Niagara L,t US not per-
init merely artful women to use it as
means Of inducing dropsy and foreign
trip. Let US dom esticate this mental in
fuence, and extract from it valuable serv-
ice.
Thus came the -metaphy steal cure about
eight or ten years ago In tho hands OF ex-
tremists it is made partly one of the de.
lusions OF the world, but IN the hands Of the
wise and moderate it is a tonic of great
value. and will displace large amoun: Of
quinine AMI wild-cherry bitters. Its philos-
ophy may all besummed up in the fact that
the soul affects the body and can rouse up
its torpid blooi, can make the liver, heart,
lungs and the brain-that nerve centre
quicken their pace AMI use up or crowd out
the diseased globules from the blood AMI
fluids. Clara Morris has perhaps, saved her
life by acting UPON the stage just enou IN t.
enable her mini to recDnstru-t, from tins
to time, her delicate physique. One of the
old poets sail: The soul doth tho boiy
make'-it being a well-known fact that the /
and powerful mind make the face !
into its own likeness
This is, then, tn, philosophy of the min | !
cure 1t can do much for a man and is not |
to he reproachel because it cannot do every |
thing. If the influence of the mind may |
benefit one sick person in twenty live, il !
will then surpasS in value many pbpulir !
medicines; and if it shall prevent many
Others from falling into any imaginary i'll I
ness, it will confer second benefit upon the /
Man is not in a C N iiti n t. 1
reject the help of any of natures KIM
offers BY means of all thes, discovered 4
helps the evils of ill-aealth may b. mitl- !
gated if not banishe from tie world. Will, |
energy, Medicine, fasting. cool air, goo /
food, good water, are all friends of health. /
Of Il. hs.
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 Ian
gushing under only feeble will power are
very many. A delicately organize la ly OF /
Chicago lay sick a few week, WITH lung (
fever. AMI became 50 accustomed to .eebl
moss that at last She had 70 be tod yc.y
plainly by her phy ician that she wei
and that she must rise, dress, and 20 down /
to the supper table. she ha, livel t. laugh /
over the absur,lity OF spsniiIy perhaps two .
weeks in bed after she hal fully recovered. I
A citizen Of Chicago who had bceh III his 4
bedroom for few weeks. and had no
thought Of going out TO business for a week
more, WAS cured by a confiagration in n
ighbor's house He went out To help save
life and property, and became fully
aroused that his bedroom lost its charm
He dined with his family and resumed bust
ness next day, being unable to sink back TO
feeblenesS
With masses Of such evidence of the
power Of mind over matter, either to weaken
It or to build it up, it is high time for us all
10 invoke the aid of this spiritual in
iuence in no. a few days of life; but to call
it general practice of medicine is to at
empt to mako a part equal the whole. All
.hese efforts to force tho universe into one
'act or one fancy will fail, and the meta
Dhy steal doctors will have the modification
If taking some backsteps. They eau help
'ur world, but not by promising like
patent meiiine, 10 cure every form OK
disorder. They should be satisiid with the
tudy and practice of an art which may ac-
,omplish much good for society.