The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-04

not I by the same psychomachy de
velop one on his arm? AS the hour
wore on, as I sat and looked the in
Examination steadily turned to a boil,
and when it was in readiness to break,
he said to me, Doctor, there 1t is:
produced by my own power Of will,
and this ought to prove to you more
than all the knowledge of your books,
that medicine has not reached it's ul-
Innate and man is yet cropping for his
powers" I sat like one hypnotized
and believed 1 was. I asked him to
let me camera the spot.
He declined, but said I could lance
it and stain my handkerchief which
did, and here it is now with the dried
stain upon it. / asked the gentleman
how he would get rid Of 1t, and he told
me no road once travelled but what
| could be retraced. With a set smile he
said he would leave and come back
the next day. He left me dazed.
I am in a profound doubt yet,
whether 1 have the nerve or ability to
administer to any one of my patients
for any sort of ailment. After he left,
I ruminated over all that had read:
Barstoff's essay on psyschics-'Ange-
vine on the Brain" and like works. I
meditated on Mrs. Eddy's scientific
faith cure; on mesmerism, hypnotism
and what not else; 1 went to the IL
brary and took down that sterling
authority "Heinezz on the WIFI to be
found in any half furnished library,
and at page 39S ran across this re-
markable sentence:
There are very few persons so
sufficient in will power as to concen-
| trate their thought on a particular
matter to the absolute and total ex-
clusion of every other matter; but
when such person is found and de-
sires health or disease, either is at his
command for himself and his neigh
4
| glorious opinion of myself, but / de-
termined with granite resolution, to
set myself the task of producing boil
| on the right arm of the gentleman
who had so successfully experiment
| ed in my presence. / intended to COM
pei it by the steady determination OF
my will. I closed my office to every
body for the day; pulled down the cur
tains; raps were made at the door
and the phone jingled, but l needed
nothing.
I just thought of that man: I bent
| over him, wherever he was; touch
ed him and corrugated my brows on
him. No tense ever focused the sun
| steadier or hotter than l centered or
him. 1 did not go out for dinner.
| tensioned myself into a state of fren-
| zied exaltation-
AS supper time came I called my
| wife by phone telling her 1 was en-
gagged ana would not De 10 supper
and would you believe me. my wife re-
piled by saying that the wife of my
| friend had been trying to reach M
ever since IL o'clock for me to come
over to the house and see her husband
that he had a vicious looking car
buncle on each arm. that both arm
were much swollen, that they looked
ripe, and for me to come up as sooi
as I could. This is my story: Call 1t {
fake II you please, 1 am beat ant
dazed. 1 beg of you under no circum
stances to give me or my friend away
1 have told this to no one, but ;
| friend of mine who is in the guber
material race, who thanked me TO
making him my confidant, and sal
that IL his will power should prove t
be efficient as mine had been he woul'
illustrate the cuticle of his adversar,
with a set of carbuncles thick as bead
on a rosary, and do you know nav
been on the watch ever since to Sc
what effect his untiring persistenc.
has had on roscoe j. q. W.