The Wilmingtonian., 1888-01-21
1888. PRICE TWO DENTS
The Influence the Mind Exers ON III e
Bodies orPhysicians ana their Patients.
BY NJ. u. g., NJ. ID

BY NJ p. g., NJ. d.
While see, from day to day, Illustrate
of the truth, "that the body is flesh an
blood statue of the spirit, aud the huma
itue of the playground of thought of fee
ing, giving to one person thick lips and
sensual appearance and another foi m almos
angelic, | cannot help believing that II
mind of physician exerts a verv powerful
influence on himself aud patients. We az
all of us familiar with what are calle,
"birth. marks, " or histories of tie predomi
nant thoughts of some women and their in
huence on their unborn children. We accep
as truth the assertion so often verified, tba
children possess the same kind Of menta
facilities that fashioned their parents chai.
acters and careers before their bi tn
will go step beyond this, and assel
that while diseases and mental faculties ar,
contiguous, SO also is health contagious.
TIE will power IS faculty that is not SUI.
6ciently understood and better knowledg
of hi, f'rce would make physicians NOR
successful.
Iany as tie best cures ever made wert
produced, not by the treatm rt, but in spit,
of 1t.
A Physician was seen by certain yellow
fev'r patient trying on his cpat and LOCts
that were lying in an adj lining room, evi-
IDENTIFY supposing the man would die; bui
this action SO reused up the lion or will Of
the man, the ne was det rmned to get well,
and he did.
A man gave another some pills for malaria
that did not help him. H. then took his
jackknife from his pocket remalking 81 am
going to bleed you." The former ran ont
of his house crying out murder" when the
baker jumped in his wagon and rode off.
The fright altered the condition of the mans
sy tim and he was eu,rd, a, If by magic.
If Napoleon Bonaparte's assertion that
Imagination rules the world" was not true
many physicians especially the homeo-,
paths, would have much less business than
they possess now. Ifpotients imagine them
selves sick, let physicians get then selves
sick, let physicians get them to imagine
themselves well.
Isuppose patent medicines often work this
way. A patient reads an account given by
a ST IL man of bis ailnsnt, aud tie medi cine
ha rook. and the cu,eNaade. He imsgines
he has the same disease, and that the same
medicine will cure him. He takes it, and
imagines he is cured.
Now this is true statement Of many cas-
81. because it is well know ''that medicine
that will cure one person Will not always
cure another" in the same stage of the same
of the same disease, so that If quacks did
lot take INTO consideration the great iuiu-
ence advertising has upon peoples i'm igina-
tions they woI d unt Sc so many rocks
and fences with their advertisements.
always try to do my work in this way.
If know a man ia dtfl t-d with disease
that cauuot cure, 1 will not profess to make
a well man OF him, bacause cannot imag-
me that can do so, and would not deceive
him. But if could ,et holi of case that
[ can care, try to exercise all the faith pos.
sible in my abllIty to do So to the fullest ex-
tent of all my strength of soul and self re.
lance, and my reliance on help from God,
and try to show my faith-not without
works, but by my works.
Now while do this thing, also try to do
another work, namely, to make my patient
believe firmly that can cure him.
In this way Ihave often reused patients
that were nearly dead, and fouudthat pow er
was of more value than all other stimulants,
and thus have tided over the most critical
periods of disclso, aud carried patients on to
final recovery with gratifying speed and pos
itive permapency.
Let us never forget this truth, sour infiu-
ence over others is of the same nature as
that we have ourselves"
As the boy when asked in court I'D you
believe in help" answered, 'sNo," and
when the judge said, why do you not be-
lieve in hellP" r. lied, dad is Univer-
salst," and as we all admit the old proverb
to be true, 'Like moster, like ma :" s, we
may add, Like doctor, like patient" or,
10 other words, the physician may infuse
some Of his strong will power into his pa
rient and cause him ''to will that he will le-
cover," aud he will get we'll.
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The Lodge Rom in the third story Of the