The Washington times., 1923-06-14
Patients
find Woes
RETURN
BUT $50 Of His Clinic Still Re-
cite the DAY by Day.
Formula.

NEW YORK, June 14.--Gone back
to Nancy, France, to his drug store
and his garden, Is Monsieur Emile
Coue, with his genial smile and his
little sack of good American simo-
Icons. And among the majority at
least of his disciples of six months
ago, crutches are blooming again and
pills are waxing stylish once more.
For the average sufferer of real or
fancied fills the plump little French
apothecary seems to have accom-
plished what the typical, well-fed
American family physician accom-
plishes when he bustles into the sick
room and calls out cheerily:
Come, come, now; cheer up; don't
look so glum: you're still miles ahead
of the undertaken! How much insur>
ance can sell your" or words to
that effect.
Out of 200 patients who were in
epired by Coue's dramatic personality
to enroll in the New York clinic for
the day by day, in every way"
treatment, $50 are still faithfully
coming, with more or less regularity.
to listen to the gospel as taught by
former British army officer, who
was badly wounded in Belgium and
whom Coue treated at Nancy.
Believes 1t Works.
This officer, Capt. J, Stewart Rog
erson, who has Incorporated as the
National Coue Institute, with offices
in the fashionable district near the
south end of Riverside Drive, be-
lievesr Coue cured him of complete
paralysis of his right side.
Rogerson still lights his cigarettes
with the left hand, but he declared
yesterday that most of the $50 pa
TENTS are getting better and bet
ter"
He cited one case when Coue's for
mula cured a woman of diabetes by
auto suggestion This cure was sub
Stimulated by DIR. James r. Scott.
who is consulting physician for the
Coue corporation here.
Captain Rogerson, who is aided by
Mrs. Rogerson, was modest, however,
about the status Of auto-suggestiOn
as an aid to medicine.
I'VE must build up large number
Of definite cures before we can be
sure what weight this method can
be given,n he said. In addition to
the $50 charter patients. Robertson
said, some 200 transients are treat
ed weekly.
Visits to some fifteen men and
women on whom M. COue laid his
own healing hands while he was here
showed that his treatment grows
less efficacious with !. his absence
One woman, suffering from = some
what vague assortment OF ailments,
says she can. still make herself tall
tab L.
French for this passes. But she
does not understand French, and it
has always made her sleepy
A man complained that, under urg-
ing from the Frenchman, he once
tossed away his crutches for a few
minutes and hobbled across a plat
form while hundreds cheered, but
that the reaction from this sudden
exertion injured his weak back, and
he has since spent most Of his time
in bed.
Nearly q Religion.
Coue's essential message to Amer
lea, in the opinion Of several physi-
clans interviewed, was the reminder
Of something that American doctors
have long known-that every thought
process is a physical as well as q
ul6IlIdI pFOCSSS dIlu DISCOS AS SAAo1h
Of physical reactions.
Thus an optimistic thought logic
ally leads to pleasant physical re-
action, and a pessimistic thought to
unpleasant physical reaction. For
example, lovers easily become vic
Tins of indigestion. 1t is elementary
psychology.
THAT is what Coue did for us.
said nerve specialist. "He remind
ed US Of the A B G of psychology that
we learned in high school. Also he
came near making a religion Of 1t.
tation in "Tosca," "Cavalleria Rus
ticanna" and "Thais" aroused great
interest.
She is the wife Of Baron Poppef,
economic authority and financier.