Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-20

quiets their nerves simply because they think so. Then there are patients with headaches and all manner of real or fancied pain who really do not need medicine, but insist on having it, and so they get the water decoction to relieve them. The hypodermic water injection is a frequent hospital remedy, and so are several other harmless doses with
 which hospital cranks are relieved from suf-
 fering.
 The doctors all agree that woman is far
 less gullible and easily deceived than man
 with bogus remedies. ffSimple examination
 with a stethoscepe has benefited many men. !"
 the doctor added, @and fever thermometers
 have wrought more cures on ignorant men
 than the one reported by Dr. Ward, but it is a
 hard matter to deceive woman with such
 treatment or with administering water re-
 medies. If 8 woman has pain she knows
 she's got 1t, and she understands, too, what
 effect the medicine should have, and if it
 doesn't follow within the expected time, she
 knows she has taken medicine that has no
 strength, and she just makes it lively for the
 man who gave it to her. Hysterical patients | gre an exception to this rule, however, for the Crease, being more than half imaginary and pureT functional, any kind of remedy which them bette ;, N'e0 A'0Ao DoeSn'G !Ia tna rather tend to prove the the ory of the faithL Lealersan " es anu no, DOE. Every doctor under stahos Lne power or nt-5 over matter, and acknowledges the moral ssment If ava-- .er-,,
 disease; but to say that faith =, o,a ensly or woman who has any real dASese ;s q. much nonsense as to say that faith T.1 .H so4;a fy hungry mar as well as his dinneS T, functional difficulties the mind has nut control oyer the disease, but if these func- tional difficulties arise from organic disease, the mind has nothing to do with it. A man falls and breaks his arm. His mind or will l may exert itself to such an extent that the pain will be quieted to certain degree, but | the arm is broken just the same, and so a man or woman may believe that they have no pain or disease under the peculiar mesmeric l influence of the faith healers, but if that per l son have caucerous stomach, diseased liv- l CT, enlarged heart, or congested brain, faith I doesn't healit
 "Fafth cannot restore the diseased tissues ! of the body or mend the broken bones. If 1 there is no such thing AS pain why do not l the faith headers submit themselves to the surgeons knife in viVisection in the interests | of science, for of course they would not be I hurt if they only fancied they were not, and | if an artery were severed they could command | the hemorrhage to cease and it would obey | Oh yes, the faith cure is all very we'll fol hypechondriacs and nervous people witf 1 fancied ailments, but if I had throat like l the Emperor Frederick's I'd rather have one breathing tube than all the faith in Nortt America, unless really wanted to join ths
 angels.
 l At the same time no physician likes tc | treat patient who has no faith or confidence in him. If man has, for instance, bad case of typhoid fever, and is very much l frightened over it, he has to bear the pain of the disease and the pain of the fear at the same time. If, on the other hand, he has 1 faith in his physician and believes that he 1 will get well, he is much more apt to do so, | not because the disease is any the less fatal, l but because he is relieved from one form of l suffering perhaps quite as wearing as the l physical torture of the disease itself, and he has more strength for the struggle. But as
 for faith or courage arresting the progress of deadly disease, the theory is absurd, for no class of patients are so unbelieving az 1 regards the seriousness of their case or 50 l tenacious in their hope of recovery as oon- l sumptives. Why, real consurnptive or a person with organic disease of the heart I will never believe or admit that they really l have either disease. When person comea | to me thinking they have consumption or heart disease, I know they have neither 1 one, for the real consumptive thinks he has bronchitis, and the person with heart l trouble talks about indigestion, but chron.
 ie cranks with imaginary ills can be cured by imaginary remedies, and are repeatedl. 1 relieved from terrible suffering by wate
 and faith, and that is the faith cure of tn
 doctors"