Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-02-07
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"Some deemed them wondrous wise,
And some believed them mad "
The wonderful influence of Imagination
in the cure of disease is well known.
motion of the hand, or glance of the eye,
will throw weak and credulous patient
into a fit; and a pill made of bread, If
taken with sufficient faith, will operate
cure better than all the drugs in the phar-
macoppia. The Prince of Orange, at the
seige of Breda, in 1925, cured all his sol
diers, who were dying of the scurvy, by
philanthrophic piece of quackery, which he
played upon them with the knowledge of
the physician, when all other means had
failed
The garrison being afflicted with scurvy,
the Prince of Orange sent the physicians
two or three small phials, containing a de-
coction of camomile, NORWOOD and cam
phor, telling them to pretend that it was a
medicine of the greatest value and eX-
tremest rarity, which had been procured
with very much danger and difficulty from
the East; and so strong that two or three
drops would impart healing virtue to
gallon of water The soldiers had faith in
their commander; they took the medicine
with cheerful faces, and grew well rapidly.
According to M. Delenze, any person
could become magnetizer, and produce
these effects, by conforming to the follow
ing rules
Forget for a while all your knowledge of
physics and metaphysics.
"Removc from your mind all objections
that may occur.
"Imagine that it is in your power TO take
"a in nd
side.
"Never reason for six weeks after you
have commenced the study. Have an ac-
tive desire to do good; firm belief in the
power of magnetism and an entire conf
dence in employing it. In short, repel all
doubts; desire success, and act with sim
plicity and attention"
That is to say: "Be very credulous; be
very persevering; reject all past expert
ence, and do not listen to reason" and you
are magnetizer of the first water. Hav-
ing brought yourself into this edifying
state, "remove from the patient all persons
who might be troublesome to you; keep
with you only the necessary Witnesses
single person if need be-" ETC., etc.
Dr.. Wynter, an English writer, says:
at is wonderful how ghosts and spirits
of all kinds disappear when tried by any
chemical tests, and what sore trial the in
ductive philosophy is to all mysticism
whatsoever, and especially that feeblest of
all mysticism which exerts such an inhu-
ence over the many feeble brains moving
in society"
$50 great was the confidence in Great
raks The of the nth century, elsewhere
spoken of J, that the blind fancied they saw
the light which they did not see-the deaf
0inaH hat ard ho lotr, hat
they walked straight, and the paralytic
that they recovered the use of their limbs.
An idea of health made the sick forget for
while their maladies; and Imagination,
which was not less active in those merely
drawn by curiosity than in the sick, gave
false view to the one class, from the de-
sire of seeing, as it operated false cure on
the other, from the strong desire of being
healed. Such was the power of the heal
ers over the mind, and such was the influ-
ence of the mind upon the body"