INFLUENCE OF IMAGINATION.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5179, 28 May 1885, Page 3

INFLUENCE OF IMAGINATION.

Jn - reference to the influence';, of the imagination on tho body, a doctor toils the following story in the; Chicago Timet 'A big hulking fellow about ten miles (from the town I was practising in idea that he was going to die at just 11; o'clock in the forenoon of a certain day.' About 9 o'clock a messenger cMe'for ? m©. I hurried out. Wheni: got thereftho |? r! !!? .., fifteen minutes, to.live.accord- ; , log to bis calculations, Ho' did jo6fe man on the vergb of eternity,' His' eyes were dim and sunken, his face, had-that peculiar pallor which heralds the-near approach of death,and his breathingtwas very labored. 'Tho familywere gathered around and wooping' aB; they, took a'. final leave. Something had to be done quickly. There was a smatt-looking woman Jhere, and I called her aside,' Point* ing to the clock on the mantelpiece) which the patient wtfs watching, I said When j[ have his attention, turn that' Then crowded jin tho family grottb, bustled lliem iuto the next Batdown on the edge of the bed and began telling that fellow one."of;'the most horrible murder stories you ever heard; J "I located it right in the town where he knows every* I body, named the woman killed, went into bloodcurdling details,' and so" ; completely interested the man that he had forgotten [about his^l,o'clock. appointment;> Wlieq I gave hijii a chance to look agaip';if was twenty minutes to 12, arid he teiiciually ; f°, r ' a time, claiming .tlißt OOeD .He finally.got r t"o laughing, and we all took: dinner';,together y-slio next day. he -whipped jtwo. men at ; a Wh» raising f(ir,twitting; him. abbuit A thVw» gramme of.deathJhat ; ;