The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-29

Any Doctor would Take ShrQder
Into Partnership with Him-Acts
by Crude HypnOtism, But Does Not
Know 1t Himself-Shrader Is Like
Drop of ChIorofOrm Giving Tenn
porary Relief.
Copyright, 1896.
New York, Nov. 2S-"The Healer" said
Dr. George F. Shrady, leaning back in his
great office chair, with his Westminster
chime behind him. lis not a foe worthy
my Steel say my Steel but mean the
whole medical profession. AS a publisher
of a large medical journal, am entitled
to act as spokesman; and for my brothers
and myself / say the Healer is unworthy
our warfare.
1.-THE Healer does good He cures the
sick, and as curative agent is entitled
to the name of healer or DOCTOR, or in
most cases he would be so entitled. But in
the case of this particular man there is no
such consideration, for reasons which
will show.
THE Healer works upon two classes of
people-the supplemented and the suscep-
tible. He cures the supplemented by
working upon their beliefs. They think
him endowed with spiritual powers, and he
trades on that belief.
'SThe susceptible are cured by working on
their feelings. You can make soft-heart-
ed man. susceptible to human emotions,
cry by telling him a sad story. You can
make him laugh with a merry one. You
can arouse him to anger with a tale of
wrong; and so through the gamut of hui
man emotions
"In the same way you can cure the
susceptible with the healer's cure, by
working upon their feelings. You tell
| them they are we'll and they straighten
up and walk out rejoicing. 1t is only
temporary, like their grief when you make
them cry. But 1t answers the purpose
| of healer cure.
Now, the reason that this healer is
not entitled to the name of physician in
this case is because he heals without
knowing how or why he does so. ply
stefan who cures by medicine has made a
study of the same. He has mastered the
science of drugs. He heals, but he
knows why and how he does so. The same
with hypnotist. He cures by hypnotism,
and he knows he cures in that way. He
is e. hypnotic doctor.
"But in the case of Shrader. He heals
without knowing why he heals. He says
the power is his. That is all he knows.
He has not studied, nor has he listened.
He goes 1t bllndly. He lays on his hands
and people get well. That they do so
is more mystery to Shrader than to the
people. This lack of knowledge of his
own powers deprives him of the right to be
called physician. A physician is a man
VINO cures according to established scien-
tifc laws. To put the title to other use is
to deform and pervert it,
The work of the man Shrader Is a mag
nihcent one. do not say this on any au-
thority but my own, and do not say that
any other physician has ever made such
an assertion to me. But / would almost
guarantee that any over-worked phvsi-
clan of the fashionable quarter of the city
would be glad of an assistant like Shra-
der. If he could be taken into partnership.
as 1t were, quietly and without knowledge
of his methods. he would lift from the
mind Of the physician a load which Isl
sometimes too heavy for him to carry.
1.-THE man Shrader works upon the mag
nations and beliefs of persons. They are
full of faith when they come to him. They
do not approach the healer because urged
| to do so, because sent by some one else
against their will. They come, often bv
stealth, to the man who can cure them.
| They feel sure of it.
Il read of case of man with kind
| of rheumatism. He had not walked in
four months. Physicians had labored In
vain over him. The healer struck the
| town and the man read of his cures. If
can get to him. he said, shall be
| healed
zone morning at daybreak the man
crept from his bed, and alone unlxnovn
to the rest of the family started on the
road to the healer's house. 1t was two
| miles, but he half walked and half crawl
ad Ehara tn frrnk 90
he Strengthened up and ran. There was a
line forming and the man had to stand
with other cripples for three hours until
the healer touched him. When the 'di
vine hands were laid upon him he sobbed
with joy and had to be carried out So
great was his emotion. But when borne
back home, he was well and, though weak
from long lying in bed, he was bed-ridden
no longer.
MY theory and the theory of every
physician is that the man was cured he |
fore he reached the healers house. If he |
had made the same effort for his family
physician, and crawled into the street |
and risen to his feet by mortal effort the |
muscles and nerves would have begun 10 |
strengthen and in a few DAYS he would |
have been we'll.
This is one kind Of a case. And there |
are thousands of them that could be simi- |
lary cured py the healer, or by the ply |
In the office of bnsy practicing nhv-
sician the healer could do wonders. The |
doctor, with good case Of blues to cure |
would hand the patient over to the heal. |
er, and in five minutes the suffering man |
would walk out with q smile upon his |
face. l think any physician will agree |
with this
In France there is physician now
practicing healing by what we might cali
freak methods. He hypnotizes in a new
way. IS almost a faith cure When
the doctor is called--and he has n isroa
practice and great reputation-he takes
with him medicine case. He finds the
patient SICK with diphtheria. Taking out
bottle OF curative medicine he tells the
patient to lie still and take his medicine.
NOW comes the wonderful part. The
Doctor places the bottle ofmediclne against
the affected part, in this instance the pa
TENTS throat, and holds Il there quietly
Ior nve minutes. we are now giving
medicine by absorption says he. This
medicine permeates the system and acts
upon the throat. II is Very poUerfuI