Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-02-18
(copyrisht. 1914. b. 4 s. Gny)
WONDERS OF DUcTLEss GLANDS

II Is well known that very often {
medicine or. other remedy, OF itself alb
Bolutely without effect, produces {
very marked improvement or perhaps
even totally corrects all sorts Of nerv
Gus and functional disorders Of the hu
man body, II only the patient is con
vinced 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 q
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
a pill made Of bread, II taken with suf-
ficient faith, will operate a 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
aginatlon 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 individ-
ual control, proving thereby that In a
very large measure every man makes
his own disease.
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 a decoction OF chamomile,
NORWOOD and camphor, telling them
to pretend that It was q 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
lacks Of the most powerful and brutal |
Of monarchs, could not Justly be
classed as weaklings, neurasthe1ics or |
Mysteries. And It is useless to deny
Or to attempt to brush aside such |
facts as being unbelievable fables, be-
cause everywhere about us We have
evidence Of similar happenings, taking
place today. But we will have to grant
that the soldiers were superstitious.
Belief in unmeaning words and in
remedies implies the alb
'ence OF those ideas OF causation that
-aise the cultured man above the saw
lge; consequently II we claim to be
part Of civilization we must strive to
understand the principles involved in
.hese amazing reactions In order that
We may use them intelligently for the
advancement Of our individual health
md that we may efficiently cooperate
With our fellow men for the better
nent Of the race.
Next to the folly of declaring that
hese things cannot be, and the folly
" receiving bllndly everything we
lear Is the folly Of refusing to accept,
o master and eagerly to grasp and
lse the results Of modern investiga.
ion, especially when they are clearly
Iteps in the course Of nature and mark
tut another stage on the evolutionary
Dad.
Few minds possess talent for abb
tract thinking, but such ability Is not
because all minds are capa-
lie Of acquiring knowledge II only
hey remain open and are willing to
'e shown. Everybody can see an OBJ
ect when II Il placed before him and
VI cap observe objects In relation
they willard our scientists are