The Washington herald., 1922-12-20
By DR.. EMILE cOUE.

NEURAsrHENIA. 20 common
Az nowadays. generally yields
(as I said earlier in this chron-
ioiI to suggsstisn constantly prac.
ticsd in the way I have indicated.
I have had the happiness Of con-
tributing to the cure Of q large
number of nsurasthenics with
whom every other treatment had
failed.
One of them had spent a
month in . special establishment
At Luxembourg without obtaining
any Improvement. In six weeks
he was completely cured. and he
10 now the happiest man one
weuld wish to find, after having
thought himself the most miser.
able.
Neither IL he ever likely to fall
III again in the same way, for I
showed him how to make use Of
Conscious Auts-sugsestisn and he
dess It narvelously well.
CURE OF CRIMINALS.
But if Suggestion is useful in
treating moral complaints and
physical ailments. may it not
render still greater services to.
society in turning into honest
felix's the wrstched children who
people our refermstories and who
leave them only to enter the army
Of crimes?
Let no one tell me it is i'm
possible. The remedy exists and
can prove it.
will quote some cases which
are characteristic. first inserting
here a metaphor which make it
easier to render clear my point,
2 few remarks in parenthesis.
Suppose our brain is a plank
in which are driven nails that
represent the ideas. habits. and
instincts which determine our
actions.
DRIVING OUT EVIL"
II we find that there exists in
. subject a bad Ids. a bad habit.
q had instinct-as it were, a bad
nail-we take another. which is
the geeA idea, habit or instinct.
place it on top Of the bad one
and give a tap with hammer.
In other words we make a sug.
ssstien. The new nail will be
driven in, perhaps a fraction Of
aR inch. while the old ene viii
come out to the same extent.
At each fresh blow with the
hammer-that is to say at eseh
fresh Suggestion-the one will be
driven in q fraction further and
the ether will be driven cut the
same amount, until. after q GER
tain number Of blows, the old
nail or evil idea will come out
completely and be replaced by
the new one.
when this. substitution has
been made, the individual obsys
II.
CURES KLEPTOMANIAC.
Let US return to our examples:
Little NJ, 4 child Of eleven
living at Troyes. was subject
night and day to unpleasant acci-
dents. He was also a kleptoma-
MAC, and, Of course. untruthjul
into the bargain. Al his mothers
request I treated him by susges-
tion.
After the first visit which he
and his mother paid me the acei-
dents ceased by day though they
continued|1at night. But little
by little" they became less fire.
aysnt until finally. a few months
aftervaFd. the child was COM
pletely cured.
In the same period his thisv-
ing properstties lesssned, and in
six months they had entirely
ceased.
BOY RATED BROTHER.
This child's brother, aged
eighteen. had conceived q violent
hatred against another Of his
brothers. Every time he had
taken a little too much wine. he
felt impelIed to draw . knife
and stab his brother.
He felt that enc day O. o,fsr
he would end BY dsiRA 50. and
he knew at the same time trat,
having done 50, he would be in
csnselsbk.
treated him alse by Sugess.
tion. and the result was mar
velous. After the first treat.
ment he was cured!
His hatred fer his brother had
disappeared. and hey have sine
become sscd friends and get on
capitslly together.
I followed up the case for a
long time. and the cure was per.
manent.
Since such results are to be
obtained by suggestion, would It
Bet he beneficial-I fai1ht evsn