The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-06-02
EFFECT OF IMAGINATION.
How superstitious People are Affected oS
Simplest of kemedies.

H,y superstitious People are Affected by
Simplest of keEnedies.
London Answers. 1850.
sunerstition is by no means deal. even
in uItra-civilized England. One Suhday
few months ago. an interesting proof IT
This fact was seen in the parish church of
Sutcombe, in North Devon. A woman who
suffered from epilepsy. sat In the porch as
the congregation came out from morning
service and thirty married men, who at her
request had attended church. passed her
by one.
AS they passed. each dropped penry in
her lap The thirtieth took the pennies
and gave the woman a half crown, which
was to be made into ring for her to wear.
Vain superstition, you exclaim! Yet an
other woman, also martyr to epiiepuc
fits. who went through the same ceremony
at the same place nineteen years ago. mas
rover since suffered
Devonshire is the home of the faith cure
For instance to cure thrash, complaint of
children the Eighth Psalm is read three
times. three days a week, for three weeks
over the sufferers head. Another cure lor
thrash is to catch a duckling and place ats
head Nth open bill inside the mouth or the
afflicted child.
ton exercised over human health or disease
Is familiar to the medical profession, anu
no douot that il why the faith cure Is
90 often efficacicus Where the illness Is
merely an effect OF imagination, as is ire
auentiy the case, it is only natural mat the
!masination must be used TO erect cure
Some time ago case of the kind wa" re
corded in The Lancet. An elderly woman
NO. hroueht into the hospital suffering t"r'
ribly. She had been an Invalid Tor some
tiue and was supposed to BE- suffering from
A complication OF disorders. spe Was Ter
,Ibly thin and looked wretched.
rne doctor who examined her said that
there was little actual disease; YET ne III
not either laugh or roughly ten her 'na' "e
was shammtng He said very gravely that
80 was only one remedy tnaLs would care
har II must be administered with Inc
GREATEST care as to quantity at certain NOUS
m he obseryed most carefully one taole-
spoonful Of distilled water was given '"e
moor women every ave hours NItiiu 1'1AS
weeks she was as well as she hao ever
been IN her liro' -. 4,s e,x
A famous hungarian doctor, VINO died SIN
- a.o WAS a wonderful hand at culns
nervous diseases, and he very rarely uSeu
anv medicines a wealthy FrenchmaA cams
10 MIN com planning of desperate lnolsesti0H
which gave MIN constant pain anu
MIN of sleep. the doctor sAHhAheo "iD''
round that the source Of his lhalauE voc
nerves, and ordered hun TO sup e@ei' ~
on TWO raw eSgs, each seasoned with 1oF'S
80, yrains of salt and then To walk z'ooV
~. IN and down the room, keeping IA
,be windows wide open and taxing 4ous
hrea,h at every third step. Absurd nonsense
~ the prescription sounds, works" "
harm The man was so busy weighing h'9
off and counting his steps that he ierso'
IT, narves and was soon sleeping ike
top. ,4o, agopies
A Manchester man who suffered ssohies
,-o-, asraehe. and always kept remedy
=. rand awoke one night in spasm III
-, and reused his wife. She told him lha1
49, hottie Of lotion was on table near n.y.
ua got ND and without striking lnaten
eourd IL. and rubbed some on his race inns
verv soon aIIayed the pain and ne was ao'S
49, 90 IN sleep again. When his wife aw0Ke
~ the morning she gave a scream "hat
80 Won done, John? Your face Is an
hIaek." Much puzzled the man arose enu
ut IN the glass Then the mystery De-
- c,aar His face was covered with
tnl He had mistaken the bottle IN thS
AZ rl,ness and cured his earaehe with mn
Here Is another case even Elore Stra''ihs'
howard Merriman. a negro messenger OF the
rr.osurv Department at Washington, lost
re mower OF speech through paralysis OF
- local cords He went TO a colored
nrac+Itioner, who told him that the next
soI,nsa of the moon would cure him There
1vas an eclipse about six weeks later ana
r.arr,man went out to watch It. BY the
t1roe the moon had passed out of the earths
shadow the man was able to speak as Well
aa he had ever done In his IKE