Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1897-09-28
MinTrv TO cure Mr. Rouss.
An English Professor to Try TO Restore His
Sight.

An English Professor TO Try TO Restore His
Sight.
1t was learned by the New York Jour
nal Thursday that one of the millionaires
on whose special account Professor John
Atkinson, the English bone setter and
nerve and tendon specialist came to
this country. is Charles Broadway Rouss'
and thatthe Professor will exert his mar
velous skill in attempt to restore the mer-
chant millionaire's sight.
1t was arranged by correspondence be-
fore the Professor left England that he
should call upon Mr.. Rouss and there
will be an interview and examination
within day or two. although no exact
time has yet been arranged for.
Professor Atkinson's specially is the
treatment of bones, ligaments and nerves
that he can actually touch, and his pecu
liar power seems to lie. to quite degree,
in the transmission of some magnetic
force through actual physical contact
In the case of the eye, as he expresses it;
can't get into the middle of the head
and get right to work on the things that 1
want to get hold of"
But he has successfully treated several
cases of blindness, and is confident that
he can cure, or at least materially aid Mr..
Rouss unless the optic nerve is actually
diseased.
My method is to work indirectly on
the optic nerve if it is merely case of
atrophy or weakness, through gentle
and gradual stimulation of the orbital and
ordractory nerves, and certain nerves over
the medulla. The basis of my work in
this, as in the treatment of joints and
bones, isthe assisting of nature. 1t seems
simple, perhaps. to SO state, 1t, but in the
rightful assistance of nature lies wonder
full possibilities. OF course where the OPP
tic nerve has actually decayed there is
no hope, but if it is weakness am conf
dent of doing great deal.
my peculiar gift of indistinctly di-
vining the very point that is to beworked
upon, and certain powers that pass from
my hand into the patient, are what help
in such a case. What the power is, and
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not know. But know that often have
treated several cases in close succession,
and especially if they are cases of paral-
ysis, so much power goes ont of me as to
leave me completely exhausted"
Little Esther Novak, the child of poor
parents. who through the fundamentally
of the Journal, was taken to Professor
Atkinson Tuesday for treatment of an
ankle injury that a number of doctors had
decided must infallibly make her help
less cripple for life, was again taken to
the Professor yesterday afternoon, and
the little foot and ankle were once more
carefully and systematically manipulated.
After fifteen minutes of manipulation
the child was told to walk across the
floor, but she was too fearful of her long
disused ankle to attempt it and drew back
with a shudder. But when its mother
held her by the arm the little thing put
her foot down, pressed her weight upon
it, and limped across the room without
pain.
The mother WAS overjoyed at this great
progress, and carried her child off in her
arms, with the promise of the Professor
ringing gladsomely in her ears that after
another two or three visits the child
would be completely cured.
The professor is DESTROYS of explaining
that he has not come here to, in any de-
gree, antagonize the surgical or medical
profession He believes that by an in
stinctive gift and hard and technical
study, he has mastered principles of bone
and tendon treatment that are, by most,
not even suspected. He makes no secret
of his principles or his methods, and is
anxious that doctors should bring to him
cases that they or the hospitals have given
up as incurable.