Show ODD CASE OF MIND CURE creaking Ure aking of a thermometer cure woman ot fever A prominent philadelphia phyll clan who has looked skeptically upon all the new theories of curing disease without medicine says he has recently seen an instance of the influence ot the mind over the body that bas greatly surprised him one ot hi patients a woman who ten years ago was saved from a wreck at sea has since been subject to attacks ot fever regularly once a year As there seemed to be no particular reason for these spells of illness his usual treatment has been to send her out ol 01 town and the change was always beneficial this year however a wedding in the tarn lly prevented the trip and the fever increased with such severity that the doctor became seriously alarmed one day the patients temperature was ab normally high and the doctor to see it the heat of the atmosphere could partially explain it took a ther mome ter from the wall to note the temperature of the room the instrument slipped through his fingers and tell to the floor breaking the glass tube turning to his patient be saw that her face was les flushed and as he felt beri pulse and watched her the fever rap idly abated and left her quickly the thermometer had been on the wrecked 1 vessel and it was always on the an niver sary of the day of the wreck that the fever appeared it was interred that at these times the woman s nerves had responded to the terror and acx I 1 lety of that experience and the break ing of the thermometer had shattered j the nervous strain of memory kept alive by its associations philadelphia record the nourished soul makes steady nerves during one month no less than 32 tons of egas were sent to england from bulgaria |