Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-06-06
THE MYSTERY OF WARTS"
If You Buy the Warts They will
Leave the Victim Soon.

A correspondent OF the New York Sun,
who signs himself ''Medicus,'' says:
Il have been interested for some years
in the mystery Of warts Nearly forty
years ago, when very small boy, | dis
PEELED warts that were upon my own
hands by rubbing them with piece of
common school crayon. l am a graduate
Of New York city medical college and
am legally qualified to practice medicine
in New York and New Jersey, and |
frankly admit that my usual method of
removing warts from my patients has in
recent years been by the method of buy
ing them. To explain my modus operan-
dl | usually give the patient Il bright
penny or nickel and assure him positive
ly that the warts will soon disappear;
that they are mine by purchase, and so
must leave him. Usually they disappear
in from four to ten weeks.
Among my Wart patients have been
the son and daughter of Il ell-knoWn
doctor of divinity, and girls and boys OF
intelligence, members of our high school,
who are preparing for entrance into our
best universities and colleges. | mention
this class of patients to show that the
plan works upon the intelligent and Gull
tured as well as upon the ignorant and
the SuperStitiOuS."
BY way of illustration [ will narrate
y
suited me about an enormous seed warr
upon the left elbow of her son. The
wart was fully as large as Il silver half
dollar. and when the boy bent his arm
the wart would crack and bleed | of
fered the boy a new bright penny for the
Wart and at first he could not grasp
the idea that | was serious in my pro-
posal to buy the wart. In a few weeks
| was interested to find uDon eXamina-
ton that exactly One-half of the wart
had disappeared. 1t seemed as though
the wart had been divided through the
middle and one-half of it had been shaved
or scraped away. | assured the boy that
the remaining portion would soon disap>
pear. and SO il did.
a young woman behind the counter of
one of our local stores had her hands
dotted all over with warts. | judged she
had not less than thirty on each hand.
When L required why she did not get rid
of them. she replied that she had tried
many remedies. but they had all failed
and she was discoura ged in her efforts. |
then offered to buy them of her for
penny. The method being so easy
and pleasant, she agreed to sell them to
me, and after number Of weeks they ali
disappeared.
L can offer no thoroughly scientific ex-
PLANTATION for these facts beyond the
statement that they come under the head
of mental influence. l assert with such
poSltlyeness my ability to diSpel warts by
purchase that my patients 'subconscious
self or 'subconscious mind is impressed
by my assertion. and, although my claim
is met by Il smile of incredulity through
their belief in me and the force of my
asseveration they half expect it will occur
as I declare it will. The 'subconscious
self, or. as Hudson denominates it, the
subjective mind Dresides over the ac-
tivities of our physical functions l. e.,
our physical life. independently of our
reasoning faculties our intellect or our
objective mind (Hudson), controls the
organs of the body and admits disease
under influences and impressions unfa-
vorable to US and also eliminates disease
under favorable, forceful suggestion"