The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-05

TINT you're going blind. so in
great terror you tell your wife 10
telephone for tho doctor. whats
the matter with hlmr says the
slaeioa'. in order TO get line on
whether he shall bring you a
prescription for splritus fr1imenti or
a bread pin. He's going blind says
your wife. Now, ii always makes
a doctor aisgustcd 70 have a lay.
imam presume 10 diagnoee his own
case. 80 the doctor growis back.
How does he know he's going
blind7 Did n doctor tell him he
WASP No. he tnst thinks so. He
can't see. so he thinks he's going
blind. Besides. last night he had
four cocktails made from home.
made goods FAys your patient and
long.suffering wife.
''of course. Gus. the moment the
doctor Is armed with this inforrna-
ton he knows you are tho victim
of auto psycho.therapy--''
say Il again and furnish blue
print with IT, Mr. nedell pleaded
helplessiy.
cappy went down for the first
time. but came up almost imine.
dintely and struck out Tor thGlasoro.
"Er ah--auio, meaning made by
yourself, from yourself aud for
youBelf. as FOR instance. vaccine
made from a disease germ in your
own body and shot back into your
blood Psyche. Of course. refers
broadly. TO TIE brain. while therapy
Is derived from therapeutics, which
Is the treatment Of disease by
water hot baths. cold baths. hot
water bottles, Ice packs. etc. Hence
tire tef1n auto.therapy means. liter
ally, water on tile brain. Tho doe.
tor, Kff5wing you have water on tho
brain and that some of It Is leaking
out thru your tear ducts, realizes
that that is what is Jogging your
vision. So all he does is to cali. Mt
cost Of $40, laugh at you. tell you
you're crazy, that you've got q
cold--in a word. by sheer force Of
his stronger win and mentality, he
sells you the idea that perhaps you
are crazy and that anyhow. while
you may not be seeing as well as
usual this morning. you IRE NOT
going blind.
you are then In condition to
reason. SO the doctor prescribes a
dose OF ipecac or a beaker OF EPSON
salts. and rather than take either
YOU lie like an Armenian and say
you're oil right again. The necessity
for covering this lie causes you to
buck up and 10. by noon. you have
sold yourself some more psyche.
therppy and you're we'll again. in
truth and IN fact. or course, while
never scott at anybody's religious
beliefs. l do feel free to disagree
with them on the treatment OF dis
ease. aitho, Augustus. when you go
blind / do hope you're a Christian
Scientist. II you are. youll save $40.
cure yourself and bestow your
thanks where 1t belongs, whereas IL
YOU continue to dwell in error you'n
think the doctor has cured you and
forget to send him his check or even
feel grateful TO him"
"But do you really think the treat.
ment OF disease by Christian Science
is a good thlng2r Ulysses Grub de
mandcd OF the sage
ITS a fine thing for mental dis.
case. at any rate, and l recommend
II highly | recommend il for imag.
mary diseases and people die OF
those, you know. Otherwise. how
ean a kahuna doctor in Hawaii pray
his enemies to death2 IN tell YOU.
He just says to his enemy: There!
Just for that I'm going to pray you
to deathF Don't try 10 kid me, says
the said enemy. and tries to laugh It
Off. But a suggestion well planted
Is hard TO laugh off. and that night
the victim Of the kahuna doctor cats
something that disagrees with him
Immediately he bames the bnhunn
doctor, the idea takes possession Of
him that maybe there Is something
In n knhuna doctor after all. so he
starts fading away with worry.
THE idea that he Is gcing to die
and that nothing can stop him finally
gets firmly fixed in his fool head. so
he does dio-to please the kahuna
doctor. a good suggestion welded
into q firm belief win make a hypo.
condriac realize that he isn't sick and