Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-11

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"He then faissd mp in bed and mt ON
the side, permitting his legsto hang down,
and he began to move them and to talk 10
me-. was almost dumfounded. You
can imagine my utter surprise at seeing
him % like himself again altar ~ had
had to oqx3y him from hie cot to his bed
during the last four months."
Mrs.. Hill, to whom his recovery a at.
tfibuted, was in Austin ssvernl yeaxs aao
and performed cures Of Q similar nature,
and In bis sxtrsmity the dying man ap-
peslsd 70 her.
Thomas Jay Hudson Of Warrington %.
counts for cures Of this Kind By hi law Of
Psychic phenomena. What the law Of Rrnv.
station 70 to astronomy. what the atomic
sheosy u 70 chemistry, Hudsen's hypoth-
ems 10 70 psychology. This = the ~.
thor's claim, and in support Of this decla-
ration he II able to cite . hundred examples.
Mr.. Hudsen's hypothesis il based on this
discovery, which, he says, has been dem
beyond the possibility Of
doubt-"that hypnotic subjects are CON-
stantly amenable to the power Of sugges-
ton; that suggestion IL the all potent fac.
tor in the production Of all hypnotic phe.
nomena."
"Ths flrss proposition, /" says the author,
"relstes TO the dual character Of mans
mental ofganization-that IL to say, man
has, or appears to have, two minds, each
endowed with separate and distinct attri-
butss and powers, each capable under csr.
tain conditions Of independents action. Il
b sufficient to know that everything hap.
pens just a. though he were endowed with
. dual mental organization. Under the
correct rules Of reasoning, therefore, have
the right to assume that man has two
minds, and the assumption 10 stated In its
broadcast tesms as the nrst proposition Of
my hypothesis. For convenience shall
designate the one as the objective mind
and the other os the subjective mind.
"The second proposition Is that the sub.
3ective mind is constantly ameiable to con.
troll BY suggestion.
The third, or subsidiary. proposition IL
that the subjective mind Il incapable Of
inductive REASONING"
Based on these propositions, Mr.. Hud.
son has constructed a beautiful theory.
Suggestion-sug2estio from one mind to
another. That is the whole thing. Think
You are we'll, and you are we'll.
THE first case" says Mr.. Hudson in
his book. TWAS that Of a relative who had
for many years been afflicted with o nerv-
GUS trouble, accompanied by rheumatism
OF the most terrible character. He was
subject to the most excruciating spasma
during his nervous attacks Of rheumatic
trouble and was frequently brought to the
verge Of the grave. He had been under
the care Of many Of the ablest physicians
Of this country and Europe, finding only
occasional temporary relief. An idea Of
the suffering which he endured may be
imagined from the fact that one Of his hips
had been drawn out of joint. by which the
leg had boon shortened about two inches.
This, however, had been partially destroyed
BY physical appliances before the psychic
treatment began. In short, he was q hope.
less invalid, with nothing to look to for
relief from his sufferings but death.
1.-The treatment began on the 18th Of
May, 1890. Two persons were Informed
of the proposed experiment, and were asked
to note the time when the treatment be.
gan. They were pledged to profound 60
crecy, and to this day the patient Is not
aware that he was made the subject of an
experiment. in psyche Therapeutics. Afte,
the lapse Of few months one Of the per.
sons Entrusted with the secret met the in.
valid and learned, to her surprise and de.
light, that he was comparatively we'll.
When asked when he began to improve,
his reply was, About the middle Of May
Since then he has been able at all times t.
attend to the duties Of bis professionalism
OF a Journalist and magazine writer-and
has had no recurrence of the old trouble
"Of course this may have been coin.
oidence, and had It stood a. q solitary in.
stance that would have been the most IA
tioDal way It accounting for 1t, but hun
dred such condolences do not happen In
succession without single break, and
more than o hundred experiments have
been made by this process by myself and
two other persons, and not a single failure
has thus far been experienced where the
proper conditions have been observed. In
two cases the patients have not been per
ceptibly benefited, but In both Of those
they were notified &C. the intended expert.
ments and were profoundly skeptical, but
these failures cannot be charged to the &C
count of this method of treatment, for the
simple reason that the fundamental prin.
ciple Of the system was deliberately vioiat
ed-that is to shy, tho best conditions wert
not observed, in that the patient was in
formed beforehand of what was intended
In such cases the healer Is handicapped BY
probable adverse Interrogation.
"One fact Of peculiar significance con-
nected with the case OF rheumatism men
TONED must not be omitted, and that Il
that the patient was . thousand miles dis
TINT when tho cure was performed.