MAGNETIC TOUCH

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1939, Page 9

MAGNETIC TOUCH

500 PEOPLE CURED

LONDON, May 13

How Lady Clerk, wife of Sir George Clerk, former British Ambassador to France, has cured more than 500 people by her magnetic touch was revealed in Paris this week. Lady Clerk, who discovered her mysterious power by accident, first experimented on friends, then in Czech hospitals while her husband was British Minister in Plague. When she went to Paris Lady Clerk, convinced sceptical French physicians, although most of the cases nti'jsted to her were considered practically incurable.

“For a long time I felt in myself the pn-.wr of u. mysterious fluid. Ono day I thought of letting my fellowmen profit from my magnetic experiments. I began by making some experiments on my friends,” she told the “Paris Soir” in an interview. “Thanks to Presid-

ent Masaryk, 1 was able to make, under the direction of eminent physicians, my first successful experiments in Czechoslovakian hospitals. 1 became quite famous there and 1 sometimes treated two or three patients simultaneously. “When. L arrived in Faris some- years ago I wished to pursue my experiments. I spoke of them to Professor | Jaques MaTitain; who-is greatly inter-1 '•■sled in psychic questions. Through, his influence I was able to continue m.v work at Paris hospitals on condition that my treatment should always no j supervised by hospital physicians. '

Nearly all the cases that were given;to mo were considered practically incurable. 1 made as many impositions;.of my hands on the patient as was necessary. Ido not pretend to cure‘all diseases, but 1 have obtained in certain cases, particularly with children,’. a vast improvement in their condition’.”