The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-01-07

tients by suggestion, alone, and with
marvellous success
He says: "A SUGGESTION is AN
IMPRESSION, CONSCIOUSLY or IN
CONSCIOUSLY RECEIVED through
OUR FIVE SENSES"
Our DR.. w f. Zediker gives a better
definition. He says: at is any i'm
preston or sensation, from any source,
either spiritual or material, of which the
mind is either consciously or uncon-
sciously the recipient"
Please study our definition and you
will see it embraces more than merely
saying, "You are getting better" YOU
are getting WELL" etc People do have
the most vague ideas about what
suggestion is; and hence condemn it
from their view point.
We have repeatedly said Suggestion
rules the world and we can maintain if
We begin to receive them at mothers
knee, then in the day school, then the
Sunday school, and from the : cred
Desk, from the political platform. and
everywhere, and every day all through
life. When Garfield waved his hand
and quoted the tumultuous mob in New
York and cried out in clarion tones
"GOD REIGNS, THE FLAG FLOATS.
AND THE GOVERNMENT AT
WASHINGTON STILL LIVES" it
was all suggestion, but it appeased the
wrath of men, and made his name fam
ons. Referring to the power of thought.
the OLD French commission on Animal
Magnetism, observes: "The magma
ton renews or suspends the animal
functions; it animates by hope or
freezes by fear in a single night turns
the hair white; in a moment it restores
the use OF the limbs or speech; it de-
stroys or develops the germ of disease;
1t even causes death" This magma
ton is the work of suggestion. A Grim
inal was condemned to death bv the
courts in New York and turned over to
men OF science for experiment. They
assured him they We're going to bleed
him to death, then blindfolded him and
went through the the maneuvers of bleed
ing him talked gravely over the matter,
set the minute for him to expire. and
scratched his arm: he felt and heard
the warm water flowing and dripping
and sank away and died at the appoint
ed minute. What was it that killed.
Suggestion. Not drop of blood was
taken. Another made to believe he was
put into bed where a man had lust
died of the cholera, and he took the dis
ease and died. Another that he was in
a smallpox bed and he took the disease
at the proper time, etc, etc. All this
was purely suggestion. So then sugges-
ton has power to kill, and why not to
cure. We assert it can and does cure
thousands of cases that nothing else can
reach.
Geo. c. Pitzer, NJ. D., principal OF the
st. Louis School of Suggestive Thera-
peutics and Medical Electricity; also
Professor of the Principles and Practice
OF Medicine in the American Medical
College of st. Louis since 1878: and elm
zeal Lecturer at the City Hospital for
twenty-five years, where from 400 to 900
patients are always on hand editor of
the American Medical Journal for thir-
teen years; author of the work. "Flec-
lectricity in Medicine and Surgery
three editions of which were sold in two
years; twenty-eight years residence and
practice in st. Louis, and fortv-one
years practitioner, says over his own
name that he can cure hundreds of peo-
pie by suggestion that he could not cure
by medicine. And when such leader
IN medical science comes out strongly in
favor OF suggestion, what can the
average, every day drug doctors do or
say to condemn it? and why won't the
people accept such evidence as con-
elusive?
DIR. Pitzer answers the question as to
what Suggestion will cure as follows: He
says, "We treat ALL diseases, none are
sent away, and if cure be within the
bounds OF reason, We engage with con-
tidence to absolutely cure them.
We prefer, however, to treat nervous
diseases, chronic ailments and stubborn
cases OF long standing. We cure organic
cases as well as functional ailments.
For insomnia, suggestion approaches
a spacific Certainly il Is the "a fast rom.
edy to produce quiet, refreshing sleep,