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Show But He Has Been Cure J by a Coast Doctor I San Francisco, April 2f. Ralph Madison, 13 years old, son of a wealthy weal-thy Palo Alto rancher, has been cured 1 of chorea, a rare disease which caused caus-ed blm to lalwr under the delusion that ho was a dog. Barking and 6narllng ibo boy, who had been a sufferer from the strange malady for two years, was admitted to a local hospital last month. Prominent Prom-inent physicians Interested theru-pelves theru-pelves In the case and hypnotic treatment treat-ment was determined upon. But afterwards after-wards Dr. Walter B. Coffey, who had charge of the case, decided to try an entirely new method. An electric belt was placed about. tho jatlcnt's waist and whenecr the boy had a convulsion convul-sion and barked, a.nt.rse pressed a button and gave hlm'-a sharp shock. By auto-suggestion and through fear of the shocks, the physicians say, the boy began to Improve, tie convulsions became less frequent and now they have ceased entirely and a permanent cure, it 16 believed, has been affected, j |