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Show I ODD CASE Or MIND CURE. Hreeklag of a Tfc.re.e-el.1 tfw Woms Fever. A prominent Philadelphia phyal-clan, phyal-clan, who haa looked akeptlcally upon all the new theorlea ol curing dloenaa without medicine, aaya be baa recently seen an Inatance of the Influence of the mind over the body that baa greatly aurprised him. One of hla patients, a woman who ten yeara ago waa aaved from a wreck at lea. haa since been aubj.ct to attacks of fever rtgularly once a year. As there teemed teem-ed to be no particular reason for throe, spells of Illness, his usual treatment haa beep to send her out of town, and the change waa alwaya beneficial. Thla year, however, a wedding In the family fam-ily prevented the trip, and the fever Inrreaaed with amh severity that the doctor became aerloualy alarmed. One day the patient's temperature waa abnormally ab-normally high, and the doctor, to aee If lha heat of the a'mnsphere could ioo -partially explain It. took a thermometer thermome-ter from the wall to note the temperature tempera-ture of tho room. The Inetiument lipped through his Angers and fell tn the floor, breaking the glues tube. Turning to hla patient, he saw thnt her fare waa lent flurhed. and aa he felt her pulse and watched her. the fever rnp Idly abated and left her quickly. The thermometer had been on the wrecked veaael, and It waa always on tha anniversary an-niversary of the day of the wreck that the fever appeared. It waa Inferred that at three times the womnnWerveH I had responded to the terror tun ans l-lety l-lety of that experience, and the'brnnk Ing of the thermometer hnd shattered j the nervous strain of memory kept alive by Its associations. Philadelphia Record. J I The nourished soul makea ateady I nerves. ... . I During one month no leas thnn 82 I tons of eggs were aent to Rnglnud I from Bulgaria. |