The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-19

science began in this country with DR.
| Quimby, who developed a theory thai
all disease is in the mind; the truth is
cure. The idea is that disease is re-
suit of sin, matter is not real, the uni
verse is universe of the mind. Health
is positive, disease is negative and
hence it does not exist. Health consists
in right thinking.
This conception so appealed to people
that it has taken it's place among the
great mysticisms of the world.
What is the truth of mind and faitt
cures? The imagination has an i'm
mense influence on the body. This has
been known very long time. How
many men grazed by a bullet will fee
the blood trickling down? The long re-
cord of such instances, sometimes true
demonstrate our conceptions of how We
/ feel about how we really feel.
! We know that in the secretions the
mind controls. 1t is said the cSsrth-
| quakes have cured diseases. Medica
students have often symptoms of the
diseases they study.
One very striking Illustration of MIND
cure is the Kelley cure of habitua
drunkenness. We know that it consists
| of hyperdermic injections Of some
! harmless fluids, and the patient is tolC
| he may drink if he will report it. Wher
! he reports having drunk, there is made
an injection of an emetic which causes
him to vomit. When he finds that
| drinking causes a recurrence of vomit-
! ing, he thinks he is being cured anc
! finally the habit is lost. 1t is essential
| ly mind cure.
The effect of faith is marvellous and
always has been. l think that faitl
is the greatest word in any language
/ 1t expresses the supreme power of tht
human soul over its own being. Faitf
can undoubtedly cure diseases. We car
read of the cures by springs and tails.
mans, of healers like Schlatter Mr.
| Goddard has traced the history of thi.
man, who believed himself divinely or.
! dained-to heal and attracted to him
/ self all sorts of superstitious and ig
norant people. He had faith, but i
was the faith of what the world call
a lunatic. And yet the good he did il
pndoubted, but it was all caused b,
the power of the "gemut," as a German
| philosopher said. An appeal to thi
great instinct of faith, will turn small
armies against great ones. We wan
to find those people who believe with
out a doubt. We must admit that al
| the civilization of the world grow
large and as the brain grows large, tn
mind must exercise more and more o
a power over the body
Now, where is the line to be draw
between true and false faith cures?
think we shall find the key in hypno
tism, which has added a new and DO
tent therapeutic power over disease. an
especially in those which are Gale
nervous diseases. 1t is simply
method of transferring faith. II Is
question of faith. Just so, YOU ca
transfer an idea almost bodily, Hyn
notism is simply conveying an impress
sion strongly. 1t is all more or les
normal, and more or less applicable
Ihere IS no fluid. Some people influ
ence others, and when this Influence
carried to an extent, it becomes hvn
notism. Exhaustive studies of hyp
notism have been made by Van Alder
Ewes, Berheim, Weltersstand, of til
therapeutic influence of hypnotism.
controls secretions, 1t cures headaeh,
sends one to sleep. Welterstand
cures consist of putting people to sleel
In the stage forms of hypnotism it
a sort OF sonambulism, but real hypnc
tism is real sleep.
we have great many patent med
clnes, and there you have a sort {
psychic influence. The psychology
advertising has yet TO be written. TT
symptoms appealed to in patent med
cines are common in every one. I'll
very suggestion of a symptom tends
make you feel It,
believe in faith or mind cure to III
extent: The mind can affect the bod
IN circulation, in the respiration, in d
gestlon, Now, when these influence
OF the imagination are kept up for
time, the disease may superYene. Man
nervous diseases are inculcated in tn
MING. MIND makes diseases, and, mai
urally, the mind can cure as MANY dis
eases as it can make. Perhans tbe
IS going too far Who has not hear
OF cases of people at the Jaws of deaf
peing drawn back by a great exel
else of Will and energy? We live /
the soul to a great extent.
Inc calumnity of it is that there
perhaps not scientifically trained ner
son in the ranks of faith curists. w
| VIII concede that there is no proof n
the value of many medicines. The fac
that mind curers are apt to 20 off a
wild lmaginations because of their lac,
81 scientific training is Iamentable an
mas made physicians look askance n
mind and faith cure.
The time will come when the mo,
who has been trained in nhvsiolaa
ana psychology will be the true fail
cLrists. AeiI
We all know that great MANY nbvs
icians have patients who simply Sit /;
their presence and listen 70 60
gestions. Has not every ono fo,,r'
this to be true? That there are sn,,,
PEOPLE whose very presence is ban
Diness. % nap
In these days Of luxury A prea+ -,
81 me diseases are hystericaI. Hvsteri
Is instability, It is excessive rnoodi,, e IL.
IL shows itself in extreme sel6sbnass
A selfish woman in the househoi5 !
morn iDle. These people are tbe yiot,.,
or the digestion, Of the neve y ~
nour, OF everything that hapnens T.. ~ !,
TINS tendency to illustrate In ona,, :.
self all the diseases OF the hod,, oWl
Hysterical patients are often -,
hardest kind to cure. A great -, ~
doctors shun them as thew u,o,,I .,ie ~
plague. Experiments in the not,a., ~ ~
suggestion were made in tbe soho.y
not long ago. Children We're pjva, i !
things and told they were eoi6 ~
they thought So and vice versa. AZ T,iI'
We're given things to taste. II ID nossi
Die to deceive every sense In " n eos1i
sometimes In children. Thoueb az
senses are more acute than IN ad,,its
me simplest kinds of gas Arc caiio.
chloroform and ! have seer tba s nsenN
\ faith cures. eeeiV cures ar
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