The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-07
MAGNETIC HEALING!
WHAT IS TIP
a Few Words on tho Subject Of
interest to Our Readers by DR..
J. Fraser Barbrick, HThe Boston
SneoiaIist and Healer"

In Biblical times the blind were made to see
the desf to hear. and the lame and halt uC
walk without crutches or stats simply by the
laying on Of hands or by a touch of the hand
as it Is described. Great excitement and
wonder followed these cures and they were
looked upon as both mysterious and miracu-
lous No scientific explanation of how the
cures were accomplished was given and none
seemed TO be necessaryi the fact that they
were actually made being sufficient to satisfy
the people of those times. But in later yc-rs
scientists after thoroughly studying the
question decided that the cures may have
been made by Animal Magnetism" instead
Of by scme supernatural power which was then
and IS yet popularity believed wrought the
miracles" I say may have been" for while
we ara cot yet ready TO assume that the cures
of those days we're made bg Magnetism we
are becoming more and Ecre convinced as
time gseE on and we inves Giss this strange
power sEat they may ASvs Sssl. That this
force Systematically aP2tSsz possesses unl.Siib-
I'd power in the alienation ESS cure of disease
,s an undispEted fact that Can be better be
hers5 End more readily underwood when II
IS kaowr that in recent ybarz the study Of
magnetism as q curative tGros has been in
reduced IN the colleges Of Francs and Ger
many and the rapidity o. It's permanent
adoption in most of the European and some
American colleges has proven If such proof
vas necessary its value as a remedial agent.
The rapidly Of cures mads by magnetism
mas no equal in modern medical research and
compare with descriptions II the miracles Of
our Saviors time, and history shows that in
zach generation there are always few gifted
With A power (calI il magnetism or what you
xilD which IL properly developed and applied
viii cure disease and dispeI pain. The fact
remains though that while many are blessed
with an oyerabuudance OF this vital essence
cut few are gifted with the power of trans
hitting 1t to others. Like the gift ofapostolic
ages. OF oratory. Of song, OF music, poetry, or
painting. the power OF transmission must
remain the possession of the few. Many
people. even among the well read and most
highly educated think Magnetic Healer
uust be a big, powerfully built, rough person.
Imagining, / presume, that Animal Magnet
Ism - brute strength instead OF being exactly
the opposite In a certAin degree at least. The
Compartments Of the greatest healers have
been OF the most refined ana sensitive. Then
again Others think Animal Magnetism and
-EltltA are the stLu9r HAGEslSs LutF are
entirely different. Electricity can be made
lh4r is generated), w@SheA measured and
controlled. while Magnetism. like the soul.
we know not whence it coEsfS or whittier il
goeth.' That We yet 2svs nuch 10 learn
concerning this method o2 healing the sick"
! admit for although I have been curing
people ever since boy by laying my hands
on them" as they used to say, and have been
studying the subject for years. still feel
have a great deal more yet 70 learn about il
than 1 already know. Before closing I wish
10 say that n those Who are interested ia
healing by magnetism" would avoid dis
appointment they will be careful about
accepting every Tom, Dick Azd Harry that
comes along as a Magnetic Healer To be OF
value this power must be intell.gently used
and 20 use it intelligently, oDs must be edu
Gated ia all branches Of the hsalinE art. he
come physician and surgeon: thus bv
adding The knowledge gaiDsd D. ea;Iege labora-
.o-y and hospital work Il hSs neural gift, he
becomes really and truly '-THs sealer Of the
sick and the ideal phy-!rtrz