Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-19
Suggestive THERAPEUTICS.

Wdlhcu uONu Lie solcpS VI The AoW lam
Gus Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in
Brooklyn last Sunday leaving her
crutches in the vestry behind, her face
q veritable TRANSPORTATION. Faith and
the water blessed by Our Lady did it,
she smiled to those who were wonder
struck at her sudden cure.
Who shall deny that she was right
through what science calls suggestive
therapeutics effected her cure. Sugges-
tive therapeutics without faith in the
patient would be useless and to have
asked the little paralytic to have. had
faith in suggestive therapeutics would
have been foolish and futile. But her
devout little soul had sublime faith In
Our Lady of Lourdes and the cure was
effected Numerous others have walk
ed down the steps of this celebrated
church in Brooklyn cured of Affections
which medical science had pronounced
lncurable. These facts are undeniable
whatever their explanation may be.
Faith say the devout worsnippers at
the shrine of Our Lady. Suggestive
therapeutics" says cold blooded medical
science. And after all they may be but
one and the same
DR.. H. II. Seeleye, President of the
Hampshire Branch of the Massachu-
sets Medical Society recently made
some public statements which give an
idea of the extent to which regular
physicians now make use of psychothe-
rapy. Wry neck is not essentially an
imaginary affection. A farm hand
awoke after an exposure with a typical
case OF this ailment. He had suffered
in the same way before, and it had re-
squired two weeks of medical treatment
to effect cure Dr. Seeleye told r,e
man that particular local appica OIL
would draw out and seattle, the disease
Ill a few minutes; and in five minutes
after he had applied pure water with a
great flourish the patient was entirely
cured. The experience of an educated
lady with laryngitis was exactly the
same. She had been unsble TO speak
above 4 whisper. and her throat was
painful. Under the treatment above
described her voice became normal and
the pain ceased in few minutes. A
young man who suffered a sunstroke
fell unconscious and had violent
spasms. 1t required dozen men to
hold him. AS in most cases of acute
cerebral hyperemia, fear had exagger-
ated the trouble. The physician adj
dressed his remarks to the bystanders.
saying that in few MINUTES he would
cure the young man and describing the
various steps of the proposed procedure.
His words affected the subconscious-
ness of the patient, who followed each
step of the process as predicted, and in
aishort time he was entirely well with
out any positive medical treatment. A
boy of fifteen with acute infammatory
rheumatism had been for more than a
month unable to walk because of the
pain in his ankle. BY impressing the
boy mind with the remarkable power
OF really imperative application the
physician drove the pain away, and In a
few minutes the lad was running and
jumping. A girl of nine was supposed
to have infantile paralysis which be-
came apparently more complete under
the obvious solictude of the attending
physician. BY the use of counter sug-
gestion DR.. Seeleye was able in a few
minutes to send the little patient out
to her parents with a rush. She was
greeted with the cry: "a miracle!" A
woman of thirty years, with the synp-
toms of memDraneous Group, seemed to
be in a dying condition. She could moi
be aroused, and was insensible to pir
pricks and pinching. There was dis
tinct oedema of the lungs. In order te
arouse and, impress the patient DR.. See.
leye Rretended to use a powerful rem.
edy in minute doses, and told the doc.
tors and nurses how quickly the drus
would effect a cure. He soon restored
her to a perfectly normal condition
1T had taken from seven to eight hours
Of active medication two days befor,
to bring about no better results thar
were here duplicated by few moment.
Of suggestive therapeutics" said tn,
physician. A young woman who wal
on the table to have her throat cut oper
was led to believe that severe appli
cation Of electricity would effect a cure
She bad all the symptoms Of membran
Aous Group, but these disappeared in Az,