The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-14

REFUTED
skeptics Forced to Admit Vital Mag
netisrn Does Cure,
That Patients Are Not Hypochronriacs
and That Cures Are Permanent.
REMARKABLE CASE OF 6. JACKSON
--
His md Other 50 Called Incurabse'
Cases Cured at Topeka Vital
Magnetic Institute.
REMARKABLE CASE OF 6. JACKSON

The last pet argument of the people
who claim to disbelieve the power of
Vital Magnetism, as practiced by the
Topeka Vital Magnetic Institute, has
been exploded, and the cynics will have
to quit or invent some new excuse for
the disbelief. Their last resort was the
statement that cures effected by the
magnetist of the institution would not
prove lasting, and that the effects of
the treatment would wear away in a
short time leaving the patient in
worse condition than before.
g This argument was not used by the
4zzaoekers gEEth their other arguments
had been worn thread-baFe by use, and
proven false by results. They began by
saying there was nothing to vital mag
netism. This was proven untrue before
thousands of people, who saw public
demonstrations of the vital magnetic
power, and saw friends and relatives
cured of disease on a public stage.
These thousands needed no argument
to convince them that what they saw
was not an optical illusion. Thus the
skeptic's first point was overruled- He
dared not make the assertion that vital
magnetism was a fake" in the face of
the convinced thousands who had seen
the cures with their own eyes, and see
ing, could not help believing. After that
point had been settled, the unbeliever
advanced the theory that the patients
who claimed TO be cured by the Vital
Magnetic Institute were hypochondriacs
victims of their own imaginations.
who We're sick because they thought
they were sick, and only needed the
power of suggestion to remove the i'm
urinary pains and sickness. When the
skeptics made this kind of talk. they
were at once bounced upon by the sat
isfied thousands with an argument they
could not get around.
I'VE know they were cured of real all
ments,'' they answered the disbelievers,
because we knew many of them per
sonally. and they are reputable citizens,
substantial men and women. and not
Tightly or imaginative. We saw them
before they were cured. and we have
seen them cured. We saw men throw
away the clutches they had used for
years and walk without them Vital
Magnetism may be a miracle, but it is
no fake"
Only one chance was left for the peo-
pie who desired, principally because it
interfered IT some way with their in
terests. to throw discredit on the Vital
Magnetic Institute. It was TO attack
the pernanence of the remarkable cures
effected by the treatments They had
given UP hopes of making the public
believe that no real cures had been eff
fected. and make the people doubt the
evidence of their own eyes. but they
had a parting shot: Just wait awhile
they said. and you will find that the
cures are not lasting. Perhaps they
were benefited for a short time. but the
effects of the vital magnetic treatment
will soon wear away, leaving the patient
where he started-if not worse
There are several men and women in
this city who were cured Of diseases
pronounced 'tincurable' by the medical
profession. They were cured when the
Vital Magnetic Institute was first estab-
lished in Topeka. nearly three months.
ago. and they are still cured. Their
names can be furnished by the institute.
and they will willingly prove to all
doubters that. after years of suffering.
they found instant relief at the Vital
Magnetic institute. and that their cures
are complete and permanent
Among the cases treated by the
nagnetist of the institute when it was
first established, was one which looked
impossible.
MI. George F. Jackson. a well
known citizen and business man. and
formerly an employee of the Santa F'e