The Washington times., 1922-08-27
FRENCH DOCTOR
CURES ALL ILLS
IBY SUGGESTION
Emil coue Has Wealthy Amer
leans and Titled Brit
ish Patients.
NO RELIGION NECESSARY.
Applied Psychology Secret Of
His Work for Mental and
: Physical Ailments.
BY HERBERT NJ. DAVIDSON.
International News Service.

PARIS, Aug. 26.-Marvelous
cures by autosuggestion, unac-
companied by any appeal to
religious faith, have been made
by Emile Coue, former druggist
of Nancy, according to a corre-
spondent of LIE Matin. Coue is
president of the Lorraine Society
of Applied Psychology.
Many Noble Patients.
Wealthy ailing Americans and
members OF the British nobility are
smong patients who have come to
Nancy, not in the ardent spirit with
which pilgrims go to Lourdes, but
coolly, even incredulously, as one
customarily consults a physician
and have gone away miraculously
healed.
But It isn't a miracle at ALL"
Coue explained to lie Mathis re-
porter; Its very simple psychology.
Psycho-analysis cures mental trou-
bles. Why shouldn't 1t be useful in
the treatment Of physical ailments?"
Uses Imagination.
The means which he uses, Coue
describes as "the auto-suggestive i'm
plantation Of an idea in itself, by
itself, or the use Of the influence of
the lima agination over the moral and
physical being"
Among his patients, Coue describes
a British former M. P. who had
asthma. For six or seven nights the
patient could scarcely breathe. but
at the end Of three weeks, under
autosuggestion, he went to Chamo-
nix to an altitude Of 5000 feet with
out noticing the difference.
Another-this time a member of
the House of Lords-had suffered for
several years with gastro-enteritis.
After his cure 1 visited him in
London" said Coue. 1.-THE old fellow
you could have sent 1t through the
mail"
= The wife Of an admiral came to
Coue with case of melancholia.
She wept all the time. The first day
she was auto-suggested she merely
sniffled. The second day she only
shifted. The third day she smiled.
The fourth day she laughed. And
the fifth day she cracked a joke,
whereupon she was pronounced en-
tirely cured. She was English.
LIE Mathis correspondent wit
messed treatment" Coue gathered
his patients, numbering more than a
hundred, Of various nationalities, into
q sort Of lecture hall.
Was 1t Hypnosiss
He ordered three or four Of them
to fold their hands tightly together.
''Thinkp' he commanded. Say 10
yourselves: I cannot open my
hands,"
After some effort. all Of them ad-
mitted that they weIe powerless to
unclasp their hands.
Now think again. Coue ordered.
Say this time: 7 can open my
hands,"
All opened their hands easily.
This experiment shows that
thought dominates the action of the
muscles" explained Coue. "and also
how thought may paralyze muscular
action"
Then he told his patients to close
their eyes and listen quietly. He be-
gan his suggestion" with the
words: THE words which I pro-
nounce must penetrate into your
spirit-must rest there always grow.
en-. and they will continue to do you
BOOu CNSn "AthOuI uIly LII IhcI CllOIl
on your part"
Disease Repudiated.
Then to each one he repeated a
formula which they were requested
to repeat after him, denying the
power OF their disease over them.
He concluded by instructing them all
TO say twenty times each morning
and each evening: EVERY day. from
every point Of view, am getting
better and better" and he advocated,
for psychological effect. the use Of
q sort Of rosary to count off the
twenty times.
After the session. according to the
correspondent, an asthmatic patient
went up in the elevator without dis
tress and two dumb girls talked.
More than 150 persons were wait
ing in the anteroom for the beginning
Of the second seance of the day.
M. Coue purposes to establish an
institute Of autosuggestion in Paris.