Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-07
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lnlS Is OLlc O1 Il StiitS VI SpS-
cial articles revealing typical cases
of nervous and mental disorders
and their treatment thru thought
control as carried out by the
author and MS associates at the
Eos.on Dispensary, famous charit-
able health clinic.
III WINFRED RHOADES
If you should go to the dispen-
saN unit of the New England
Medical Centre in Boston, Mass,
some morning about o'clock you
would see one line Cf people seek
ing preliminary information from a
yCung woman at the desk by the
main entrance, new patients going
ore by one to have their needs
inquired irto by the admitting Of
ficers, others sitting on benches
and waiting to be called, and still
others. many Of them ir, a long
queue. making their way to the
cashiers cage tp pay their 50-cent
fee and get their treatment ticket.
If even a 50-eent fee is more
than trey can pay they will be re-
ceived for less; and if they cart
afford anything at all they will re-
ccivc treatment without charge.
In that long queue you would
find syrntcms Of many kinds seek
ing relief at the mary clinics which
tho diSpcnSary maintains. You
would also lind symptoms which
con never be cured by drugs, and
can be cured as the person who
suffers from them lcarrS to change
his habits cf thinging i12d of
CmCtioral reactions.
The pains arc just as real, the
sufferings are just as great, but
the real root of the symptoms lies
not in the body but in the mind.
These symptoms must b. treated
by psychotherapy, treatment OF
disease by psychological laws and
principles. Drugs can never do the
trick.
Here in an illustration. Before
the first gathering for group psy-
chothcrapy, on April H. 1890, Mrs.
D had had remarkable expert
ence.
For three months she bad been
i'll. and for SIX weeks CT that time
had not felt able to do her bit Of
houscwork and had been sperding
most of her time in bed. The
house was not cleaned. NO supper
was awaiting her husbard when
ne came home at night.
Although she felt scarcely able
to walk OF even to stand, Mrs. D.
made heracllf travel from her part
Ct The city to tha dispcr3ary enc
morning. She was carefully OK
amiHcd, and 70 signs Of orgarI
disorder could be discovered. Mrs.
DIS own words will tell what then
happened.
DR. Pratt said there was roth
ing the matter with my back, so
I got up and walked. She had
been unable t1 walk without sup
pert since Christmas because OF
pain in the small OF her back.
Local doctors had recommended
q special corset o. an operation,
but without ar artificial aids OF
any medicine Mrs. d. went mar
keting thai day after leaving the
dispensary, did a washing after
she reached home. and surprised
her husband by having his supper
Of the table wneE ne arrived after
his days work.
Il feared cancer hardening of
the arteries, and such things, and
watched my color, and listened to
ncighbors suggestions ard dag
noses; but l had Dr.. Pratt's word
for it that there is nothing the
matter, she said and from that
moment she entered again into life
l. a more vigorous fashion.
That was more than ten years
ago. When seen last spring Mrs.
d. presented a fine appearance of
health and Vigor. Bad thought
habits. painful conflicts in the
mind and spirit. repressions and
complexes, unadjustments and mall
adjustments to the conditioES un-
der which life must be lived
these a4e responsible for mdltltud-
inous ills and sufferings, =