Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-11-07
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SENSES AND HEALTH.
EFFECTS OF IMPRESSIONS UPON
MIND AND BODY.
Cure of Physical Ill by Suggestion
Not Among the Improbable
ities-Illustrative
Instances.

patient is cured is generally the one
to which he afterward pins his faith.
Therefore, when a cure is really made
by suggestion and is credited to some
other agency the faith aroused is
false one. Far different is it with
patient cured by directed suggestion
He understands exactly why and how
he has been cured. He learns to OBJ
serve number of natures important
laws, the effect of the mind upon the
body, the control of his thoughts, ETC.,
and it is rare thing to find an intel
ligent patient seeking relief a second
time for trouble of which he has
once been cured by suggestion
AS stated before, says the Med
ical Brief, we receive all impress
slOns or suggestions through the
senses, and these impressions may
unconsciously interfere with or assist
bodily functions; for instance, the
sight of a horrible accident or a dis
gushing scene will frequently retard
digestion, or nausea may result. A
disgusting sight or uninviting looking
food may instantly remove a splendid
appetite. Pleasant scenes and bright
faces, the sight of good food, etc., will
remove unpleasant thoughts, make
one feel happy and stimulate appetite
and digestion. The sight of delicacy
| causes the saliva to flow. Through the
sense of hearing news may be received
which may depress and produce shock,
cause worry, grief, nervousness, ETC.
! Any Of these conditions will remove an
appetite and retard digestion, or pro-
/ duce vomiting, and sometimes diarrhea
and polyuria. Good news, inspiring
music, bright stories, cheerful voices,
ETC., will remove depression, assist di-
gestlon and create an appetite. Some
| doors call up unpleasant memories,
which produce depressing lines Of
thought, while others again may be OBJ
noxious enough to nauseate or remove
an appetite. On the other hand, the
odors from some flowers make us happy,
and savory odor from kitchen will
often stimulate an appetite habitually
dull.
These few illustrations demonstrate
|
many undesirable impressions, which, if
retained in the active mind for a time,
are likely to interfere with the process
| OF digestion, or, by destroying the ap-
petite, interfere with the amount of
| food usually consumed. In either case
| the amount of nourishment would be
| diminished, and unless the line OF
thought of an Individual in such a men,
tai condition be changed he would likely
become nervous dyspeptic. Constipa-
ton would likely follow, elimination
would become imperfect, and later
nervous prostration and insomnia in
evitably result
| DR.. Charles Gilbert Davis, of Chicago
in valuable article read before the
psychic congress at the worlds fair
states that he believes nine-tenths of the
ills to which the human race is heir are
the direct or indirect results of an out
ragged conscience.
A knowledge of suggestion enables the
physician to discern the influence pa.
| TENTS mind has upon his health, and
in every case to secure it's intelligent CO.
| operation
| To obtain the best results from thera-
peutic suggestion thorough knowledge
OF anatomy, physiology, chemistry
pathology and diagnosis is necessary.
The force which heals man is with.
in himself, and when understood may
be controlled by himself; and just as the
activity OF, the propelling force within a
man who walks a mile is stimulated OF
depressed by the nature of his thoughts
so also will suggestion, when properly
directed, arouse the healing force within
man, and on the nature of the suggestion
given will depend the extent to which il
is aroused. Many a patient has lived
for days after the physicians allotted
time" expired, sustained only by some
stimulation of his vital force-for ex
ample, an intense desire to see some
loved one fastening to bid farewell. 1,
is often this remnant of vital force
which, when intelligently directed by
suggestion, suff1ces to arouse into actiy.
ity some organ which for long time
has been hopelessly dormant, but which
when aroused, enables the patients in.
ternal organism once more to resume
its normal action and draw him back
from the very jaws of death.