The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-14
zhristian Science From Two View Points.

gestion from the operator is concerned;
the latter being merely a state either Of
mental negatiOn, neutrality or acquies-
Cence on the part of the patient, such
as some Of Us might reach in the read
ing of Science and Health which fits
for suggestion tTea tment.
The former is that to which the term
| hypnotic state is usually applied by
the public at large. but in reality both
/ belong to it; the difference being mere
" one of degree. / shall not detain the
reader by such specuiatiOns as are in
VOWED in a discussion Of the kind of
mental forces brought into play in these
I Observation-Disclosures there are such
mental entities as 2 subjective and an
/ objective mind. and, if there be. wheth-
/ er all that has been built upon such 4
/ theory has any bearing upon our ques-
/ ton, for we cannot afford to cloud the
issue by departing from what we know.
I shall, therefore, proceed at once to
/ tell what we know this force in medi-
cine can and cannot do. Every one is
more or less amenable to il, and when
/ in a state of such mental instability as
/ accompanies disease or lowered vitality
/ in all Of US, we can be Influenced to a
/ greater or less degree; the personal
equation, however, faces us here, as in
! all our dealings with our kind. But
/ quoting Tuckey, one Of the best eX-
| pOnents Of the subject Of -psychO-the-
/ rapeutics, I think we may say that the
more q mans actions are the result Of
/ impulse rather than reason, the more
/ susceptible he is to external influences,
and, therefore, to suggestive treat
ment-"
Turning next to the class of dis
/ cases which can be faVoTably influ-
/ enced by it, we find them comprised al
most entirely in what we designate as
/ functional disorders, mainly such as
/ have become chronic, and especially
such as we group under the term neu-
rOses-such, for instance. as functional
/ paralysis, St. Nitus' dance, asthma. pal
pitatfOn, nervous headache, spinal irri-
tatiOn, hysteTia, neurasthenia and
many forms of dyspepsia. etc.
The border land Of insanity occupied
| by dipsOmania, the opium habit, and
/ the excessive use of tobacco and other
narcotics offers an extensive field which
should not be overlooked, and in or
ganic diseases, especially such as are
chronic, where pain is a potent factor
/ it has been used with benefit. The
cross, the disgruntled, those lacking
self-discipline present q fruitful field,
exemplifying admirably the influence of
mind in causing disorder.
Every practitioner is familiar with
cases in which, through natural by
peraethesia, the disabling effects Of
certain chronic ailments are far in eX-
cess of what the actual lesion warrants
Here mind, or. as the Christian SCien-
fist puts it, diseased mind. is having
too fun play. and here suggestion can
be practiCed with benefit.
I think 7 have said enough to show
that in Christian Science we have no
new OF untried force in medicine. For
forty years it has been before Us, and
the sIowness Of its progress is due to
the fact that intrusted by the public
as we are with all that it holds best
and dearest on earth we cannot con-
sent to see a force, common as it clear
~ is to all sorts and conditions OF men.
let loose until its dangers as well IS its
blessings are more clearlE defined, rec
ognized and legisIated Upon.