The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14

gle with his electricity, out ne never
quite put me to sleep, for he said 1 had
too strong a will. He was a good man
end a fine citizen. but entirely wrapped
up i'm his healing experiments"
Testimony of Bank President.
Nathan Houston, the former presi-
dent of the Belfast Savings bank, and
a man Of varied business interests, re-
members p. p. Quimby very we'll He
said he had always heard him spoken
Ct as a mesmerist and should decidedly
say that Quimby had no religious meth
cd in his healing. He was an exper-
imenter and a Spectator and a nat
ural healer" declared Mr.. Houston.
He could influence a man to come in
from the street by fixing his eye on
him."
There are many other old residents
of Belfast who unequivocally state that
Qutmby was known as a mesmerist
ana hypnOtist all his life.
A curious account of Quimby and his
methods has been given by Charles c.
Sergeant of New York, who lived for
years at Belfast, Me. He states that
one day when he was quite lad pro-
IesslOnal mesmerist gave an exhibition
at the public hall I'm Belfast which
proved q failure because some person
in the audience perverted the hypnotic
influence. The hypnotist invited whom
sOever 1t might be to remain and meet
him after the service, and it proved to
be Park Quimby, as Mr.. Sergeant
called him. Mr.. Quimby was told by
the hypnOtist that he (Quimby) pos
sessed extraordinary mesmeric powers
and that if he developed them, he could
become a great adept. Quimby, accord
ing to Mr.. Sergeant. forthwith proceed
ed to do so and became widely known
in the community as r hypnOtist. Peo-
pie feared his power which he used
rather freely and whenever anyone felt
or acted queerly on the street il was a
common saying that Park Quimby
was working on him. Mr.. Sergeant says
he never heard QuImby connect God in
any way whatsoever with his cures,
and tells of his own experience with
Quimby. When he was twelve years old
he had been troubled for several days
with an eruption on his neck which
medicines did not heal. His mother
sent him TO Quimby, who was then
practlc1ng meSmeriSm. Quimby exam
med him and told him emphatically
that he did not have a sore neck, but
instead it vas his front tooth which
panied him. This young Sergeant
{ trOngly denied, insisting that his teeth
had never troubled him. but that the
pam was III MS neck. Inc EOY held to
mis- point so persistently that finally Dr.
Quimby told him to go home. that he
could do nothing for him He subse-
quenty explained to IL boys mother
that his purpose had been to direct the
boys thought from his neck to his
tooth.
This attempted cure is a divergence
from mesmerism pure and simple, and
partakes of hypnotic suggestion, and
Quimby seems to hSve used now one
method and now another, according to
the age and mental condition of his pa
tient. But the manipulation of his pa
ttents, the laying of his hands upon
the stomach and the head and the rub
bling after his hands had been dipped
in water, were methods which he did
not abandon until he gave up healing
at the close of his career. Some of his
very Last patients were treated by lay
ing of hands on the head and stomach,
and many who visited him during his
last few months practice have testified
that Mr.. Quimby told them he thereby
an electric current of his
own magnetism through the patients
system