“Mystic Treatment.”

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 1, 5 July 1911, Page 54

“Mystic Treatment.”

Some curious confessions were made in the committee of the Reichstag on a bill to suppress medical quackery. A Conservative member declared that he knew from the experience of 311 years that both mon and animals could be cured by conjuration. Little as he believed in Divine answer to prayer, there were methods of healing which fell into the category of Hamlet’s “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than arc dreamt of in bhy philosophy.” He knew of innumerable instances of animals being cured in this way. A mysterious connection must exist between the utterer of the conjuration and the conjured. A member of the Imperial party had also seen hemorrh ig.a stopped by conjuration. It was stated by an Anti-Semite that his own daughter had been cured by a quack after the efforts of regular practitioners had proved unavailing, while a Centre delegate appealed to the testimony of a Vienna doctor as proof that some people were ?n--dowed with healing magnetism. The most sceptical participators in the discussion were the representatives of the Government and the Socialists, who for once in a way found themselves more or less in agreement. In the end magnetism was allowed to go free, and “mystic treatment” of other kinds only forbidden if practised for pay, and “when their < (Tieacy depends on a claim to the possession of miraculous powers.”