The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-10

AS I spoke I took IL from a drawer
where ] kept such things, unfolded it
and gave to him.
He regarded It with a frown of be-
wilderment; held It up to the light and
inspected 1t carefully, the bewilder-
ment in his face growing more and
more pronounced as he did so.
by Jupiter!" he calculated at last,
in great astonishment. And l wrote
this yesterday"
I'm this room, yesterday afternoon"
Il have absolutely no recollection of
it."
Nor of coming here at all?"
Most unquestionably not"
And yet you did come and expressed
what you called a second opinion on
my wife's case, and prescribed for her
this medicine, which she has been taxi
Ing ever since and which has simply
made her another woman in a few
| hours"
II can't understand it. could
| swear that l spent the whole of II in
| doors wiping off arrears of correspon-
dence. II well, it is simply the most
amazing and mystifying thing l ever
heard Of"
YES" informed him; land you not
merely told me the technical name of
| my wife's illness-the true nature OF
which had only just dawned on you,
and which you spoke of as a rare and
recently discovered ailment--but you
gave me a detailed explanation of it."
| And 1 proceeded to repeat to him,
as nearly as l could remember, what
he had taken so much pains to make
clear to me the previous afternoon.
| He listened to me with fixed atten-
ton Before / had concluded. he sprang
up and banged the table with his fist.
"By heavensr he cried, II do be-
leve that you or /, or both of us, have
happened on a great discovery. | am
not superstitious, as you know. But
I will swear that--that's some super
natural power must have had hand
| in this"
On the occasion of a subsequent visit,
three days later. DR.. n. came in to see
me at once, before going to my wife's
room. His face was working, l could
see, with a scarcely suppressed excite
ment; and he could hardly control his
voice to greet me calmly. He pro-
duced a letter from his breast pocket,
which he took from its envelope,
| spread out and placed in my hands.
erly. Don't read the beginning part,
Il must show you this" he said eag-
erly. Don't read the beginning part,
| please. 1t is from--from the girl to
whom | am engaged, and the first side
is all occupied with private matter,
| Begin over the page. l may explain
that Miss w. is a qualified woman
doctor, now practicing in Birming-
ham,
| | read through that part of the let
ter to which my attention was direct
| ed AS / did so l uttered many ejacu-
latons of intense surprise. The writer
| was describing case exactly similar
| to that of my wife. and went on TO eX-
patiate, with evident pride, on the fact
that she had discovered in her patient
an entirely new internal maladv. She
stated that the case had puzzled hel
for some time, ard that the actual
truth had only dawned on her two
days previously, while she was sitting
| alone over her afternoon tea. She
gave the name--tnat very Greek word
| ending in "itis"-by which she had
christened her discovery, and added
particulars of the medicine, which she
had prescribed and to which the mall
ady had yielded with astonishing rap
Idity: and she concluded by asking
Dr. MS advice as to the best method
of bringing this important discovery
before the medical profession.
| "This-this-seems a marvellous CO.
idance," I exclaimed, i'll great as
| constituent.
Nest marvellous. You note thai
| Miss WIS letter is dated YESTERDAY
Het. discovery she says, dawned on
her two days previously, While sitting
alone over her afternoon tea. That
takes US back to the precise day and
| hour of my unconscious visit to Mrs
X"
"And-and--you mentioned the very
same name for the complaint as she
mentions, and prescribed the identical
drugs which she prescribes.
Exactly. | ought to add one fac
more. On that afternoon / was writ
ing to Miss W., who was, therefore
of course, very especially in my minC
at the time. This seems to point tC
the only possible explanation"
And that is?"
| Mental telepathy to use a can
psychical phrase; which is a short way
of saying that our minds must, some
how, have suffered a mysterious ant
unconscious communion, under the in
fluence of which ! became utterly los
to all external circumstances; and
while in that condition, l must hav,
come here, without knowing it, t.
make use of the knowledge which, alsC
without knowing it, I had just ac
quired."
| have no more to add, ladies anC
gentlemen, except to assure you onc'
more of the perfect authenticity of tn,
above facts. AS regards the explana
tion-well, if anybody present can sug
gest one better than that offered b!
DIR. N. himself, l hope he will let u
hear it. END of Mr.. ks paper)
1t NAV interest the reader to learl
that no better explanation was forth
coming, and that the case of DR.. N
is quoted in the records of the Phas
matalogical Society as an undoubtet
instance of mental telepathy.'
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