The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-05-17
THE POWER OF MIND OVER MATTER
A strange Case in the Atlanta Hospital
which is Pu2ziing the Medleal
FRATERNITY.


man who is virtually dead, but wh Sc
soul still clings to an emaciated skeleton
bv the wonderful power OF an active
mind.
It a strange and wonderful case,
which puzzles the medical fraternity,
and which is causing special articles to
DE written in medical magazines.
But for the indomitable will of the
mans mind his body would have been
laid in the grave four months ago.
~ shall not die; will not die!' is the
burden of his song, and he lives on,
while the human frame, which is the ten
ement of this power called mind, is dead,
thing of bone, fleshless and withered.
And behind it all, upholding and en-
couraging the mind to remain in control
of the wasted body, there is story OF
convict pardoned, who dreamed OF his
mountain home while behind prison
bars. and now that the shackles are off
wants to see the cottage and the trees
and the green hills again.
This is the story with its wonders for
the scientist and pathos for the tender
hearted.
| w. D. Vaughan, ayoung man from Ell
bert couu.y, was convicted of running
an illicit distillery-a moonshiner who
made mountain dew by the light of
the moon.
While confined in the Fulton county
1ail five months ago Vaughan, while at
tempting to open can of oysters, plerc-
ed his thump with sharp point of the
tin. A few days thereafter the wound,
thought slight, became infamed and
there was evidence of blood poisoning.
From the poisoning the man became
ILL., and he was removed to the Proyi-
dence Infrmary, where every attention
was given him. He grew worse, and
was at last thought to be dying. Depu-
ty United States Marshal Mitchell tele,
graphed Vaughan's father that if he
wanted to see his son alive he had better
come to Atlanta on the next train.
The father arrived, but the son did not
die.
During his sickness official pardon had
given him liberty, and only disease kept
him from seeing the cottage home and
mountain streams again
AS he lay upon his bed unable to move,
scarcely breathing, the white lips muir
INJURED:
Il shall not, l will not die"
The father was unable to remain long
er. and returned home.
The young man lived on, and is living
to- day, if the frail hold of the living
mind upon the dead body can be called
life
1t is human skeleton that lies immov-
able upon the couch, dead body with
just one spark of life to keep the dust
from returning to dust again.
Dl. j. McF. Castor, one of the most
reputable physicians of Atlanta, has been
attending Vaughan In speaking of the
wonderful case this morning, Dr.. Castor
said:
cit is indeed most remarkable case.
1t is one of the most pronounced exam
pies of the power of mind over matter l
have seen. The mans determ natiOn not
to die has been the only thing that has
KEEP. the body from the grave, for in every
othery respect it is ready for interment,
If he was 20 change his mind and wished
to die he would not live day. The case
has been written up for the medical jour
nails"
It's indeed a strange and wonderful
case, and one which will give much com
fort to the religious sect who call them
selves Christian scientists.
The outcome of the fight against the
decay of death by the power of the hu-
man mind will be watched with consid-
cradle interest by those outside as well
as inside the school of medical science.
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! try it. The result was immediate relief,
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