Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1915-02-26
WONDERS OF DUcTLEss GLANDS.

WONDERS OF DUcTLEss GLANDS.
1t Is fell known that very often a
medicine or other remedy. OF itself alb
solutely without effect, produces a
very marked improvement or perhaps
even totally corrects all sorts OF nerv.
Gus and functional disorders Of the hu.
man body. If only the patient is con.
WINGED beforehand that the remedy
will be effective and that he will be
cured thereby.
History, both ancient and modern,
running even down to this present
day, bears witness to many hundreds
OF authentic instances of such cases,
and also 1t records wave after wave OF
belief In miracle working remedies
and practices that have from time to
time swept through the habitable globe
curing" the multitudes OF their ills.
The uncultured mind has no concep.
ton of the cumulative relations OF
cause and effect, but the disciplined
mind knows that there must be an
adequate cause behind every phenom.
enon and it is ever striving for
comprehensive grasp on laws and
principles; and civilization consists OF
the cumulative light Of such knowl-
edge.
1t is quite generally known that a
motion of the hand, or a glance of the
eye, will throw certain type Of weak
and credulous patient into a fit; and
pill made of bread, If taken with suf-
ficient faith, will operate cure as
well, or even better, than all the drugs
in the pharmacopeia. Such cases are
generally assumed to be mysteries"
But we are beginning to understand
that there must be always an adequate
cause behind such manifestations; 1t
cannot be the result OF imaginations;
1t cannot be the result of the super.
natural, and modern psychologists and
psychologists step by step are unravel-
ing the tangled lines and solving the
puzzles. They are proving these hap
penings to be neither freaks of the I'M
agination nor the work of either be-
nign or malignant supernatural" pow
ers, but rather due to an interaction,
the perfectly natural results of ade-
quate stimuli normally active within
every human body. and amenable to
personal development. and to indivtd-
ual control, proving thereby that In a
very large measure every man makes
his own disease. nv
In Van der Mye's account of the
siege of Breda, in 1925, 1t is stated
that the prince Of Orange cured all
his soldiers who were dying Of the
scurvy by a philanthropic piece OF
quackery which he played upon them
with the knowledge Of the physicians,
when all other means had failed: THE
garrison being afflicted with the sour
Wy, the prince of Orange sent the ply
sicians two or three small walls con.
tanning decoction of chamomile,
wormwood and camphor, telling them
to pretend that 1t was a medicine OF
the greatest value and EXTREMIST rar'
ity. which had been procured with
very much danger and difficulty from
the East, and so strong, that two or
three drops would impart a healing
virtue to a gallon Of water. The SOL
diers had faith in their commander;
they took the medicine with cheerful
faces and grew well rapidly"
Obviously these sturdy Netherland.
er campaigners of that day, possessed
of the stamina necessary to enable
them to defy and Withstand the at.
tacks of the most powerful and brutal
Of monarchs, could not Justly be
classed as weaklings, Inconsistencies or
Mysteries. ...............s l.
Few minds possess talent for alb
stract thinking, but such ability Is not
necessary because all minds are capa-
Bile of acquiring knowledge II only
they remain open and are willing to
he shown. Everybody can see an OBJ
iect when 1t is placed before him and
all can observe objects in relation
If they willard our scientists are
SLOWLY and systematically working out
and placing before US the solution to
our troubles for all such as have the
wisdom to accept and profit thereby.
Fundamentally these Ills of ours are
proving to be functional. not organic
in origin, and they are very largely
dine to bad habits of mind, as careful
investigation and thought will clearly
show. They rest in the relationship
hetween the primitive co-ordinating
plan and power of our bodies as now ''g.
manifested through the action OF our
ductless glands and that Of our later
ACQUIRED brain power which We have
not yet learned to use only because We
are not properly trained how to use y.
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