MEDICAL THOUGHT READING.

Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 109, 1 June 1885, Page 3

MEDICAL THOUGHT READING.

TO THI IDXTOB. Sib— ln your issue of the 28th instant Dr. GUlon says ht has advanced a theory whioh explains Mr. Hug's clairvoyance as thoughtwtding, and ho asks me and " A. Firm Believer to disprove it II we can ; and he suggests a test whioh may determine the oorreotneifl of his theory. His teat is to let three or four medioal men dote a poor patient (the old plan, practice on poor humanity) yrith oertain medioine, and then send the patient to Mr. Hit?. Surely Dr. Gillon must o« the very essenoe of simplioity, if he thinks -that would prove the correctness of his theory. But, if we ore to experiment at all, why experiment on a poor pationt? Why mot dose a doctor? fie would know best whether the clairvoyant's diagnoses wars correct or not. Indeed, I wonld BUggeat <that Dr. Qillon himself should be the of the dose of combined wisdom from his medioal friends. But, Bir, it is wonderful to find Dr. Gillon, who is only a babe in the scientific world, give forth a theory without in any way adducing the basis on which, his conclusions have boon arrived at. This student, who is evidently in the A B 0 of the soienoe of the soul, has arrived at a satisfactory conclusion (to himself) in a few moments ! whereas it took men like Professor Crooks (the chemist), Alfred Bussel Wallace (the eminent- naturalist), the Lord Lindsay, Cromwell, Floetwooa, Vierby, Sergeant Oojr, Dr. Hoggins, and others, yean ot patient investigation, and, strange to say, they haven't arrived at the aame conclusions as Dr. Gillon 1 Possibly the pseudo-soientifio student belongs to that class who are blinded by prevailing natnralism and deeply perplexed by the claims of an incoming spiritualism. The oandid and brave, yet oambous, searcher after pure truth finds himself unable to fix a just valuation upon the natural powers of the human organism of man as exhibited by olairvoyanee. CJaJrToyanoe is as certainly a power of the human mind as is memory »r oonsoionsness. It is sot like the skill of tha medioal student, as any man with or without brains may possess a smattering of medioal soienoe. Ihe one is ihe onteome of a littla study ; the other is ifa gift of the great Creator, by the <ojb« you may, to some extent, alleviate 4h« sufferings of the material body, but •with 4fco vision of the other once parfeotiy •developed it can nnver be wholly closed. "To the eyoji of the inward mind amauroais Uan impossibility. That there is something iv thought-reading I admit, but the search ■of the thought-reader is oonfined to the subject befoM hi»j while the olairvoyant's footsteps having eneirojed the earth and surveyed all orbs in spade and all outward forms «a the surfaces, and eves looked through the last open door in the stellar heavens, be may yet, penetrate the inner mysteries of being, tte maf still further survey the grandest of ' *11 human dieooveries— the fnture homo where the pure spirit m«y dwell in light and walk alone with God. Bnt as there are four or five different phases of olairvoyanee, and •bout 24 forms of mediumahip, the tiniest of wftieh the doctor seems to have had a gleam of thought from, let him still farther think ' Mid J ventn^t to say he will bo well rewarded *o» hit tims and trouble. lam, Ac, William M'Lbxn. '■ Wellington, 30th June, 1885.