New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-24
MENTAL HEALING.
PROFESSOR LADD SAYS HYPNOTISM
ACCOMPLISHcS BETTER RESULTS
THAN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

Professor George Trumbun I4add of Yale Uni
versity contributes TO the forthcoming Issue of
Leslie's Weekly article entitled. rs Christian
Science Hypnotism?" from advance proofs of
which The Tribune is permitted to print the fol-
lowing extracts:
so-called Christian Science bases its claims upon
two kinds OF evidence. One of these is a mystical
uniformed persons about mind and matter. and
about the rela lions between the two and between
both and God. The other consists Of the cures of
various diseases, which it thinks itself entitled
dence which now propose briefly to examine
assert and-so far as can be done In such brief
Christian Science not at all a new affair
second; that the same healngs better per
formed by hypnOttSm or Therapeutic suggestion
and various other forms of mental Influence and
beang tnh HAS OF e4 a taf many ms Which
fanatics is perhaps the least scientific"
supersttous peoples the PRACTICE Of cures Beo @a
largely or exclusively 70 the priestly class, II is
and the Greeks find wonderful healings effected
We're i'll or who thought themselves i'll (which
after all. in large class of human malades
eneted by seepne with d the faith of the bc
never IN pagan gods IN the temples dedicated TO
the healing art.
as4s ss s'af 2hsT 1f
eG;99%yed by siSlfuI hypnotiss have far better
Scientists Such evidence. where 1t is collected
gists is entitled to credence wbersas the erude
unsifted mixture of Testimonies" which Christian
Science has to show is reasonably con-
vincing TO the and cautious inquirer than are
the advertisements OF Quack medicines.
Christian Scientists are. however of all these
forms Of healing by suggestion, about the least
scientific Do they not perform cures? Tn
doubtedy they do But In no respect scientifically.
The science of the Indian LOgi is much more
elaborate concerning the control of the body by
the mind than is that of the authorities among
Mrs. Eddys followers in this country. The knowl-
edge Of what they are about possessed by the
leading hypnotists In Europe and this country Is
emhody suggestive therapeutics in their prescrip-
uons-after all that is worst and yet true about
them has been said-are much superior in intelll-
gence to the mental healers of the Christian Sci
epCe order.
Indeed. one of the chief objections TO the use
made of m 4ntal healing by the so-called Christian
Scientists IS its ignorant and infscriminate char
ing influence and well, Of the mischief 10 the
bodies and minds of men which II is working. and
which II is sure 10 work increasingly I'm the future
I may he asked two questions in view Of the pO-
sition which has been taken in my previous state
ments Do you not think that Christian Science
10 many in relieving their bodies and minds? And
would you advise substituting hypnotism. or quack
medicines. or Indian LOgism in it's stead To the
first question | answer: Yes. undoubtedly. But for
this very reason, among others. It's mschievous
tendencies are the more powerful. To the second
question answer: No scarcely What l should
recommend Is, of course. the intelligent and dis
eliminating Of the great principle OF the con
troll of the mind over the body. But as TO the
cure Of Christian Scientists themselves well as
Of many of their more vrulent opponents-that Is
another matter.