The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-03-22
MIND CURE THEORY
Basis of Christian Science,
Divine Healing, Etc.
Use IN MEDICAL PRACTICE
If ThorOIy Understood Would Cut
Down Doctor Bills and
Use of Drugs

is not necessarily verbal, but is some
thing you can see, smell, hear, touch
or taste. The mind can be stuffed,
starved or poisoned, as truly as the
body.
have every reason to believe that
there is not a disease known to man
which cannot be remedied if the mind
Of the patient were prevented from re-
tarding the recovery Of health.
Friends and sympathetic relatives
also have unintentionally, Of course,
killed many persons by misdirected
kindness and over-anxiety.
Suggestive therapeutics is an estab-
lished fact. 1t is rapidly taking its
place as a remedial agent. Wherever
we go, and in every case of sickness,
we witness the power of suggestion.
Suggestive therapeutics is more than
Christian Science" more than faith
cure" more than divine healing"
more than any "pathy' or ISM"
Suggestive therapeutics, however, is not
infallible, says Bernheim, altho it gives
good results in very large number of
cases. 1t may fail even when it is in
telligently and persistently managed.
The cause of the failure is inherent
sometimes in the disease, sometimes
in the subject.
One who uses suggestion never has
need to deny the existence of disease,
but positively and truthfully asserts that
the disease is amenable to cure, and
that good results will follow as the
result OF the treatment.
That there is inherent in all mankind
a psychic power presiding over the
functions, conditions and sensations Of
the body, and that the power can be
invoked and controlled at will, under
proper conditions, is no longer mat
ter of doubt by reasonable investigat-
ors.
This inherent power, known as the
subjective mind, runs the entire hum
an machinery when the objective mind
is either asleep or in abeyance; in fact,
it runs the machinery of life all the
time, but runs it better when not inter-
fered with by the objective mind in
the form Of diverse suggestions. 1t
has absolute control over all functions
nutrition, waste, all secretions and
excretions, the action of the heart in
the circulation OF the blood, the lungs
in respiration, and in all cell life, cell
changes and development.
I do not pretend, says Bernheim,
that suggestion" acts directly on the
diseased organ. Diseases are cured,
when they can be cured, by their natu-
raj biological evolution. Ordinary ther-
apeutic methods consist in putting the
organism in such a condition that the
restitutio ad integrim may take place.
We suppress, says Bernheim, the pain,
we modify functions, we let the organ
rest, we calm the fever, we retard the
pulse, we induce sleep, we encourage
secretion and excretion, and acting
thus, we permit nature, the healer
or, to speak in modern language, we
permit the activity Of the forces and
the properties inherent in the biologi-
cal elements to accomplish their work.
Every element of the organism has,
so to speak, its center OF action border
ing upon the brain. Sensibility, move
ment, nuuluon, Secreuon, excretlon
and calorifcation are governed, or at
least influenced by this central organ
ism which presides over the complex
mechanism of animal physiology.
Suggestion" is Of special value to
physicians. 1 think DR.. Parkyn is quite
right in declaring that physicians study
the anatomy and physiology of the
brain, but they sadly neglect the study
of its functions.
The chief and greatest function oi
the brain is to receive, associate and
store away all impressions received thru
the senses and TO reproduce these inn