The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-02-02
"MENTAL rIEDICINE."
Nv Abby L HOlsOn.

IAs the following interesting commu-
nication, which we copy from the Col
den Gate, San Francisco, California, OF
Sept. 10. 1887, relates 10 the achieve
ments OF a daughter of Bennington Cen
ter, we take pleasure in publishing it,
Ed
Evans has used the above words as
title to one of his works, and they strike
me as words that can be applied to near
Iy every act and thought in ones life.
so appropriate them to head this arti'
ole.
A child goes 10 school to receive whatI
Mental medicine;' so we are but grown
up children, and all our ills and fancied
woes are but mental medicine But
some one says, My woes are not fancied;
they are real and tangible suffering My
reply would haye to be. You will have
to suffer until as little child you have
learned Gods will You will have to
learn to say, as John Burroughs says in
his poem, Waiting
Serene, fold my hands ana wait,
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea-
Irave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For 10! my own shall come to me.
~ stay my hrste, make delays
For what ayalls this eager pace'
stand amid the eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my face"
One can be quite willing to learn to be
philosopher, and all that sort OF thing,
when life is all sunshine, but when pain
racks the body and brushes the mental
energies, what Is ore going to do, is an
other query. In the fret place we are
told to discover what caused so much
pain and suffering, not by looking at
what we have eaten, or what work we
have performed, but what things we
have been thinking Nine times out OF
ten we will find that we have been an
CRY, or worrying about that almighty
dollar that Dowd 81 ys the world is go
ing mad over or Il ey have had some
mental strain that reeds some mental
medicine and when we have settled in
we can think about curing the pain.
Now will describe my experience
with mental Patio Igy, that seems al
most like miracle For two months
had been sufferiuS with what the den
list called liberated teeth. The teeth.
however, were sound, but there were
ulcers in the muc rus membrane sur
rounding them. After suffering untold
agony, and losing number. and finding
no relief, a lady fri nd TOLD me to go to
Mrs. Harrison, who resided at 202 Hyde
street, and that would be helped
Nearer dead than alive l sought her
home and was info med by lady who
attended the door. that Mrs. Harrison
was not treating any one that day. |
Piled, 1 am dying with pain; | must
have relief Mrs. Harrison came i'm
medIately to me an smiling, said: L al
ways treat dying pt oplc; l will take you
to my own room, away from company
and confusion, and you will be free from
pain in a short time
In half hour all pain had left my
face, and l was in quiet sleep; resting
for an hour, after the treatment l was
able to say, Il am without pam The
best of all, the ulcers were cured, and
pain has never returned since that one
mental treatment. The teeth the dentist
was to pull the next day, are happily
resting in healthy sockets, and the'men
tai medicine Mrs. Harrison administer
ed has obliterated the disease in my
mind that caused the Inflammation of
the trifacial nerves.
Mrs. Harrison has had a great many |
patients. and performed some very re-
markable cures. Among the number,
which have come to my knowledge, are
the following: A Mr.. Siockbrdge, from |
Arizona, was so disabled by rheumatism
that he had lost the use of his right |
arm and his lower limbs. His money
had been exhausted in being treated by |
the regular physicians of this city. HIS
case seemed to be one of the hopeless, las
well as the helpless ones, when he
sought the services of this lady, and
without money and without price she
healed him of his Infirmities in two
treatments, and he went his way rejoic
ing in vigorous health.
A Mr.. English of San Francisco, that
had been afflicted by cancer on his
lower lip, and upon being cured of that,
had the disease, 80 he NJ DIS and ocu-
lists Informed him, attack his eyes. He
was so blind that the blaze of lighted
match held close to his face could net
be seen by him, and the only way he
would know the match was lighted was
by its burning his fingers, He consult
ed the best occulist n the city and with
out relief. His Whole system was crush
ed with the thought of the terrible blind
ness that was envelopng his whole life,
and when he was ed to the home of
Mrs. Harrison he c. me as one that knew
there was nothing ut night for him in
this world. After ne third treatment
he began to have a thinner of hope, as
the light had commenced not only to
family dawn upon lis vision again, bur
mentally he was receiving I'm uplifting
of the soul toward God and spiritual
truths. Seven tim"s was he led to her
home, and after th"t he came by him
self. When he had received fourteen
treatments his cure was perfect, 80 much
80 that he could att nd to the duties of
the secretary of a society to which he
belonged. and read the minutes of the
meeting, by gaslight and without any
glasses, in a fine and strange hand writ
ing, and he now attends to his daily la
bors without any inconvenience or
weakness Of the eyes,
But the most remarkable case is the
following. that IS as beautiful as it is pa.
thetic: Mrs. Harrison was lunching at
the house Of frieDl, and after lunch
the hostess invited er guests to go with
her to grandma's room, saying, If she
couldn't hear anything they said she
could see them, and it would give her
pleasure. Shortly after greeting the &C.
togenarian, and while talking among
themselves, the old lady said. 1 with
that dear soul would give me treat
ment for my hearing 80 that l could
know what you are saying. Mrs. Har-
rison replied: You dear old soul, will