MIRACLES OF HEALING.

Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 41

MIRACLES OF HEALING.

We take from the Calcutta, Statesman the following- paragraph, which will be read with interest by many people in this community, •as a good deal of interest is being taken in the subject referred to: — Several remarkable cases of psychotherapeutic cures are recorded in the annual report of the Psycho-Therapeutic Society. That belief in the beneficial powers of "suggestion" is increasing is evidenced by the fact that the number of patients passed through the hands of the society duiing the year 1904-5 " with encouraging results'' was 230, as compared with 141 in 1903-4 and 53 in 1902-3. '• Mr T." %ame to the society in October, 1904, suffering from- greatly dilated heart, cerebral anaemia, eczema on the ankle and chest, and asthma. We quote the following curious passage from the account of the case : — " The patient lives out of town, and the society's operators could not at that time go to see him for about three weeks, but two of them began to give absent .menial treatment, and this 'absent treatment' has since been continued. The patient at the appointed time sits quiet, putting himself in a passive state. He says he distinctly feels a tingling as when receiving the magnetic passes. One week it happened that both the healers were unable from va ous causes to give the treatment, and the patient missed their influence and inquirenbif" he had been forgotten. The patient is now virtually cured." Dr J. W. Springthorpe, in a lecture to the Royal Victorian Trained Nurses' Association on the subject of " mental therapeutics," gave the following remarkable testimony : "With its aid [that of 'mental therapeutics'] I myself have caused the dumb to speak, paralysed limbs to move, the bed-ridden to rise up and walk, spasms of eye, hand, face, and foot to disappear, so-called tumours to vanish even from the brain, persistent vomiting to stop as if by magic, and innumerable pains and aches to cease from troubling."