The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-21

All in Your Mind.
Say 10 the individual suffering wit.
! a mashed finger or an aching tooth
| pain and suffering is all in your
mind" and they will Indignantly in
form you that you are not only ignor
ant, but heartless, when in fact you are
stating physiological truth, demon
strated in every surgical operation u
any kind requiring chloroform, ether
or any sort of ansthesia. The neu.
rons or never cells in the brain are the
essential functionating element of the
nervous system, only the nerve cell
is capable of sensation or feeling an
| suffering. Millions and millions Of
minute microscopic nerve fibres are
distributed to every part of the body
and end in very delicate nerve-buds
which receive impressions and carry
them up to the neuron or nerve cell in
the brain. There are estimated to be
ninety billions of nerve cells in the
brain, and each individual cell has a
part to perform in the general func-
| ton OF the great nervous system
| They are in associated and correlated
groups. For instance there are volun-
| tary motion groups and involuntary
motion groups, which control every
voluntary and involuntary movement
of the body. Then there are groups
that preside over sight, hearing, smell
ing, tasting and touch; those that
recognize pain. heat and cold. and
many other sensations of discomfort or
pleasure as the nature of the substance
may be that impresses these nerve
buds. In this way the mind is made up
from impressions made by various and
varied objects and forms of matter,
conveyed to the brain from bodily con-
tact with external objects with which
we are continually brought in contact.
Now when chloroform is administered,
it para1yzes or blunts these neurones
Or brain cells for the time being, rend-
ering the mind unconscious of pain or
suffering, and any part of the body
can now be cut and torn asunder. and
the patient remain perfectly uncon-
scious of any pain or suffering.
More Than Two-thirds Of Sickness all
in the Mind.
So also, if sick person is told that
most of their sickness is in their mind,
they will reply, "Oh, you brute, you
don't know how I am suffering" We
fail to distinguish between physical
pain and mental distress. Physical
pain is felt anywhere in the body while
mental distress is recognized entirely
within the brain as purely mind pro-
cess, what scientists call psychic phe-
nomena; for instance, If we have
broken leg we have physical pain, re-
~ tha
mind, to be sure, but in purely
physical manner, but if death claims
parents, sisters, brother, wife, chill
dren, relatives or dear friends, then we
suffer mentally wholly. This is mental
distress, and much harder to bear than
purely physical pain. By the exercise
of fortitude and resignation to UNI
pleasant conditions, We may to a great
extent control physical pain and I'M
ease, and by the exercise of will power
inherent even in the weakest, we may
to a great extent, control mental dis
tress. On the contrary, If we
are sick bodily, and add to our ply
steal ailment, mental distress and dis
comfort, fear and apprehension, we
thus, of our volition, add ten-fold
to our misery.
Science One Thing, the Christian Re-
ligion Another.
The writer comedies that inasmuch
as the so-called Christian Science
teaches one to control their mental
distress and discomfort, and cultivate
fortitude and resignation, it does. and
no doubt has done a world of good to
panicky, apprehensive, fearful and SUI
perstitious suffering humanity. But
when it comes to the treatment of the
sick, the science and practice of medi-
inc cannot except any sort of one
ideaed or one-sided method, which in
severe cases is criminally hazardous.
Besides the name itself is misnomer
and misleading to the uniformed: the
physical sciences deal strictly with the
laws and principals that govern every
phenomena of atomic matter. There
is also a science OF religion which is
an inherent principle of every nation
and people on earth-thiS in mate nu-
man religion. The doctrine of Jesus of
Nazareth, called the Christian religion
does not pretend to either a physical
or a metaphysical science. He said
simply Il am the way" So it is that
one may be an eminent scientist and
yet be devout Christian. Indeed, all
the sciences in the trueism of 1.-The
correlation of forces and conservation
of energy" confirms Christ's doctrine
of the brotherhood of man and the
fatherhood of God" While on the
other hand, one can be perfect Chris
tian and not know the A, B, G., of
science. The Christian religion, there
fore is even broader than all the
sciences
THERE IS NOTHING IN THE UNI
VERSE SUPERNATURAL OR MYS.
TERIOUS-The instinct of self-preser-
walton, inherent in every living thing
as well as mankind, naturally induces
caution, which the animal, and man
as well, naturally exaggerates until
it becomes actual fear and .apprehen-
sion of any thing. the nature of
which We do not understand; and so
it is that natural instructive in
herent self-preservative caution and
precaution, begets fear. undue appre-