The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-07-06
A WONDERFUL FORCE
AN UNKNOWN POWER THAT MAY
REvoLuTIoNIzE opR IDEAS.
Odyiic Force-Its Relation 10 nIesmerism,
Magnetism and Hypnotism-An Intima-
tion OF What This Force may Mean In
Surgical Operations.

tion OF What This Force nray Mean In
Surgical Operations.
In the history Of civilization frequent
allusion is made to an occult and weird
force, seemingly possessed by few
people Of unusual temperamental devel-
opment, called odylic force. This force
was first systematically studied and
taught as well as exhibited by DR.. Mes
mer, Suabian, In 1773. Ate 1aterdate
Baird Of England took up the subject,
and after long and patient study made a
still further advance in its application to
beneAcent purposes, and DR., Carpenter
Of London followed up the study Of what
had already been named as hypnotis1n
and made it to some extent useful in the
cure Of disease.
Like electricity, the Inesmeric, mag
netio, hypnotic or odylic force isstin a
great mystery. Nobody knows its true
origin or its essential character. They
are both occult and known only by their
phenomena. While electricity Is being
daily harnessed to the car Of civilization
and progress and compelled to serve
mankind In multitude Of ways, mag
netism or mesmerism has come more
slowly into the service Of man.
The odylic force Is vastly more subtle
and elusive than the electric, and there
fore yields far more tardy response to
the question of science. "What art thou?
Whence CONTEST thou2" On account of
its great power for evil as well as good
many governments have forbidden fits
practice and PRONUNCIATION, notably
those of France and Germany. It has
always been discountenanoed by the
church as species Of heresy and WITCH
craft, and until about 30 years ego twas
practically under ban everywhere.
Since the inductive method has been
adopted for finding out natures most
sacred secrets, she has begun to whisper
her occult mysteries into the souls Of her
most inquisitive children, and we come
to know more and more Of her fine sor-
ceries. For the most part this fine force
has been devoted to the grotesQue, and |
through its influence men and women
have been made guys and merry andrews
instead Of loving devotees and faithful |
servitors.
Yet many thoughtful men BEE In this |
strange force subtitle power for good
and are betaking themselves to its study |
with devotion and purpose that seems
surely bound to divorce mesmerism from |
monkeyism and harness one more Of the
fine forces of nature to the triumphal |
car of science. Jugglery and jingoism |
fasten themselves upon two many unde- |
veloped resources of the race and have to |
be shaken off sometimes with the energy |
that piled the pillars Of the temple upon |
the devoted head Of Samson and his per-
secutors. But that energy Is now active |
ly at work clearing the hypnotic field Of |
the philistines that have infested 1t.
The people Of our fair capital have
been given series of exhibitions of the /
marvellous powers and capacities of this |
still too little known force. DR.. 81. Z.
Flint of New York, an educated and |
conscientious physician and one of a |
family of great physicians, is giving |
nightly proferts Of this mysterious force |
in our midst, and while to the casual OBJ |
server the humorous and ludicrous |
phases of the exhibitions are the attract |
i've features, yet to many thoughtful |
minds there is a deep and profound sig
nifcance in it.
Chemical an@sthesia is held to be the |
greatest discovery Of all the ages, and |
yet here Is subtle force that does for |
many people not only al that chioro-
form can do in lulling pain and Danish |
ing horror and fear, but does more, for 1t
can Danish disease in at least some of its
forms without putting the patient In
peril. 1t can make its votary sing
happy roundelay while the surgeon is
severing his mangled members to save
life. 1t can convert all pain into beau
tiful dream Of happiness end eliminate
the inaammatory process that makes re-
covery problematic in SO many cases.
Among the odic phenomena produced
by DIR. Flint is one which makes the blood
nun cold In all sensitive and sympathetic
spectators. In his daughter, beautiful
md delicate girl Of 10, he induces cata-
lepsy, state which so Stimulates death
that in India people in that condition are
buried for many days and then return to
active life as IL they had only slept a
night, and while In this condition, with
every muscle in the body rigid and hard
as sole leather, she Is laid across two
chairs placed under her head and feet,
and large limestone rock weighing 500 |
pounds Is laid upon her chest and abdo-
men, where it is broken into fragments
with heavy sledge hammer by some
powerful man who Is selected by and
from the audience.
From private demonstration of this
phenomenon made In my own Office,
without any chance for COLLISION OF de-
ception, and every possible opportunity |
l could desire to test the commences Of
The demonstration, ] can only say am
more than ever profoundly impressed
with the wonder and majesty Of the Gre
ative fiat that gave us the odylio force
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