The Washington herald., 1909-07-09
ONLY MENTAL SUGGESTION
Wonderful Cures Effected by Use of Water Under
High Sounding Name

IEe people Innuuerable we're the suffer
ers from exhaustion. debility. and the ef-
fects Of ill-ess who. ike the consump-
llTes, consumed Purc. It's favorable re-
suits, especially as evidenced by gain II
weight. were attested by physicians and
BY clinical observations in hospitals The
label on the bottle declared that during
the year 1867 the manufacture OF Puro
had cost the lives OF 4049 cattle. Now,
an investigation showed that not an
ounce OF beef had ever entered into the
composition o. that famous extract. Il
was made OF glycerine, white OF egg,
salrpeter, and 5oric acid This atrocious
mixture fattened ccnvaIescents, neuras-
themes. and cOnsumptives, ali OF whom
were convinced that they couldn't help
getting tat; because they were taking the
best extract of beef. As an example OK
the power OF suggestion by drugging. rziS
story Of Puro matches DR.. 8Iathieus ex-
perimelts with antiphymCse-
II viii be appreciated THAI the the-apeu-
Ece potency OF the suggestion VIII exerr
itself me more surely and with The great
er eflcacity the more highly elaborated
me suggestion and the more vigorously
Insisted upon For instance. The starra-
tion-cure invented BY Dr. Guelpa
Suppose that e rheumatic. a gouty per-
son. OF q patient afflicted with OBESITY O.
even with diaoeres-suppose such a SUI
ferer applies 10 Dr.. Gueipa TIE victim
has tried q thousand treatments with no
success Dr. GUelpa prescribes a thing
the patient has never heard of before,
something totally new; hunger. out-and-
OUI Starvation Ole day each week he
must fast absolutely. He must gulp down
whole bottle OF Janos. Imagine the
mental effect OF heroic treatment ike
. that II constitutes q formidable suggss-
ZION, which, as 7 believe, explains the
cure
have Just intima5ed thae the stranger
the treatment is The greater win be the
chance for the suggestion 20 result sue
. cessfully. What mo-e convincing. case IN
point than The celebrated Llndewless
cUre7
LindeWiese IS a little village in Snesia.
where certain Herr Schroter invented a
cure" about a hundred years ago Il IS
carried On to-day by his grandson
II consists essentially. IN feeding the pa
tieats on dry bread and treating them
b. thirst, al they have 20 drink Is half
g ltre OF vine every other day On the
dry days they mustn't swallow a drop
Of liquid. whether water, vine or s0up,
ald Ol these days their only food Is dry
b7erd- The drinking DAYS allow dry
bread. and at o'clock In the afternoon
q half-lirTe OF red wine This regimen is
f kept up for q month. six weeks, OF even
longer.
I Dr.. Guel9a VIII agree with ne that
under treatment Of this sort there can
I be no destruction Of toxins NeTerthe-
Z less. Dr. SanGOZ, who has studied the
I Ltndewiese cure at frst hand. cites nu-
Z merous cases IN which gOUt rheumatism.
j al, Ia ~
cured after the classic methods OF onciaI
( medicine had failed Can thirst have tho
same therapeutic properties as hunger2
IN the enumeration OF Ualadies cured
I BY suggestion we have passed over n
4 silence the woes OF the neurasthenicss
and the victims OF hysteria- Their treat
ulent by suggestion, as al Lourdes. IS too
/ well known 70 be cited here We have
4 also passed over The employment o. snS-
I Eestion by country Quacks- Nor need We
I speak OF patent medicines, whieh-iiks
Puro. the water % LOurdes- and the
thirst and dry bread OF Lindewiese-eures
I by suggestion
and vet one IS not TO conclude that IN
I medicine everything Is a matter OF Eug-
| gesuon. Never has suggestion made a
patients temperature rise O. arrested
4 hillary secretion OF stopped the falling
I OF hair OF the swelling Of knuckles- Never
\ has suggestion cured pneumonia or diph-
1 therla or q broken bone Suggestion acts
/ solely upon the nervous system and by
I the mediation OF the nervous system So.
/ IN the progress of q disease Il merely
/ modifes certain accessory symptoms. or
| perhaps. may, IN certain measure and
I Indirectly. affect certain secondary lezons
z b.
/ TEN 7 believe that this Is what explains
/ the cures obtained BY suggestion when
/ it is applied BY means Of harmless drug
I or by a system OF therapeutics that runs
I counter 70 all the data OF physiology. But
/ these latter are not always slow 70 reas-
seTt their rights, for a suggestion can be
/ speedily GnnihIlated By another sugges-
( ton. which may come into Play sponta-
/ neOUsly-autO-sgg be set intoI
activity by any one Of the thousand Incl
dents that make W. our life
/ Suggestion. then. acts only upon the ner-
v0us system But a. what. precisely. doesI
that action consist? On THIS point our 81
norance Is complete. Still, certain factsI
seem to warrant the belief that the ner-
vous system serves as something more.
( than mere telegraph line 70 convey
nerve currents and transmit orders. Il Is.
to-day proved that the virus Of rabies,
the toxin OF tetanus. the sdrenalile Sc
cTeted by the subrenal capsules. and per
hsps still other substances, are propa-'
( gated and Transmitted along the nerveI
tracts Thus IL would appear thar the.
nerves are canals. Ike the blood vessels.
and the lympharics. Are they utilized.
only BY adrenaline. tetanic toxin. and tfss'
virus q rabies2 That IS the uues;iCn
When a nerve Is cut. the muscle. the skin
or the eiard under its ccntroi perishss
Why not admit that normally thai nerve
carries TO skin or gland OF muscle csr-
tain substances OF whose nature we knout
nothing but which play an essential rois
in the life OF the anasomlc elements?
II that is the case. the effects OF sug1s
leestion may possibly be explained by thei-.
+ action either upon the nervous canals 4
OF upon the substances that circulate
therein II that is the case, say; bag Z.
that the case?