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Show ODD CASE OF MIND CURE. Bre.kl.g of m Thermometer Core. Womaa of Fever. A prominent Philadelphia physician, physi-cian, who has looked skeptically upon all the new theories of curing disease without medicine, says he ha recently seen an Instance of the Influence of the mind over the body that has greatlv surprised him. One of hi patients, a woman who ten years ago was saved from a wrec k at tea. has since been subject to attacks of fever regularly once a ear. As there seemed seem-ed to be no parti ti ar reason for these spells of H!n-hi usu il treatment has been to -i d her out of town, and the chance was ala- s beneficial. Til l year, however, a weddinj? In the family fam-ily prevent d the trip, and the fever , Increas-d with such s ve ity that the doctor became seriously alarmed. One day the patient's temperature a abnormally ab-normally high, and the ibx-tor. to see If the heat of th a -mosphere could I partially explain it. to k a tv-rmome-i ter from the wa'l t not- the tempera-! tempera-! tore j.f the ro tn. The instrument ! j slipped throuis-h his i.'i and fell to the floor, breaking the gl g tube, i Turning to his pati-n-. l e saw that her face was ie-s flu-he 1. and as he felt her I pulse and matched her. the fever rap-I rap-I Idlv abated and b ft her qui. kly. The thermom- ter ha 1 been on the wrecked vessel, and It mas always on the anniversary an-niversary of the day of the wreck that the fever appeared, it wis Inferred that at th.se times the woman' nerves had responded to the t-rror and anxiety anx-iety oX that experience and the breaking break-ing of the thermometer had shattered the nervous strain of memory kept alive by Its aso. uitioiis - Philadelphia! Record. |
