Show Eara chies eased by ink the patient scat to la usually ordered to drink am arst glass of water sitting down second in a standing position and ho third during a slow stroll of exactly a quarter of a mile not that the doctor really believe that the actual position ot the person drinking matters in the least but they know by experience that these minute instructions serve to concentrate the mind of the drinker upon the water and upon the cure it is only one proof among many how clearly physicians realize the part the mind playa in the cure of physical ailments A daily paper recently related the amusing case of a man who was suddenly attacked in the night by a violent fit of earache his wife told him that there was on the windowsill window sill by the baid a bottle of chloroform and recommended him to rub some on his face without striking a light he readied out for the bottle pulled out the stopper and pouring some of the contents into his hand anointed his face from car to mouth very soon he announced that the pain was better lay down again and went to sleep he was awakened in the morning by a cry of horror from his wife what is hie matter t he inquired look at your face was the reply A glance in the glass showed him that his face on one side was black as a neg roa the bottle which he had grasped in the dark had contained not chloroform but ink the doctor whose specialty is lunacy understands perfectly that certain de lusio iiA must DC met by other means than drugs there was a patient recently in a scottish asylum near glasgow who biad for some years been under the impression that his head was turned the wrong way on after various futile attempts to cure him the doctor in charge put him in a chair tied him there securely and after blindfolding him administered a sharp electric shock the man got up weeping with delight and declaring that at last his acad was straight again he had become perfectly sane A somewhat similar cine was effected bj mechanical means upon a man who imagined liim self to be top heavy A pair of divers boots weighing como forty pounds apiece wore fastened upon his feet after wearing these for a few days lie was completely cured A man recently came to dr brillon the well known french hypnotist with 1 oth hands completely covered warts the doctor put his patient into a hypnotic sleep and told him that within a fortnight the growths on the right band would be gone but not those on tho left within the time named the right hand was clear of warts while the other was in the same condition as before there is nothing doctors find more difficult than to induce convalescent patients to sleep properly during the recent smallpox epidemic a woman who was getting over a bad attack gave her medical attendant very serious anxiety she seemed unable to bleed bleep she was in so wank a state that he feared to administer drugs yet it was plain that unless she did sleep she would liae a and probably fatal re lapse the doctor accidentally discovered that ane woman was aware of this fact and wa making desperate efforts to sleep so desperate indeed that they quit defeated their object ahe next night he on an experiment peri ment fixing a dose of and sugar he administered it hi patient and told glicr that them vib now no need to try to the dow would end her off within minu tea exactly twenty minutes later woman fell into which lasted fourteen hours th c doctor had no faither trouble with licy bior has for past been practiced in india is on the same principle it simply consists in pure water in glasses of different colors from which color the draught obtains properties magical in their effect provided the patient is endowed with sufficient faith water in a red glass is used to cure epilepsy and all nervous diseases in 1 blue gaass it is a specific for paralysis while in a green glass it is used as a cure for fever and other complaints remembers du manners curious conception of the tone deaf girl trilby endow ed with the power to sing by the hypnotic suggestion of the musician ngali A somewhat similar case occurred recently in real life A young american actress consulted dr of new york for nervousness ness a complaint which had so far proved fatal to her chances on the stage she was devoted to her profession yet had never been given any but minor parts and was conscious that in these she had gained the reputation of being nothing but a stick dr says that when he saw her he felt sure that she was possessed of the necessary qualifications for success but that she had not the control of these faculties lie put her into a hypnotic sleep and then told her what talents she possessed ending you will never again fear failure for failure is not in you when she awoke she was a different being jhc looked taller her eyes flashed and her voice rang her success was instantaneous and to those who had known her before almost miraculous there arc cases on record of people being raised almost from the dead purely by the of will power the widow of a cumberland farmer who had managed the fann for years with great success fell ill one winter about eight years ago and so near death did her doctor think her that he adai wd her to make her will when the lawyer came her voice had almost gone she could only whisper lier instructions and these with long pauses and with great difficulty she went over a list of trinkets furniture and fco on which she wished to leave to various people and then collapsed so completely that the doctor said she was gone but a moment later the iper began again my nephew is to have the farm she muttered that is not your to leave put in the lawyer you have only a life interest in it what said the woman quite loudly and opening glicr eyes wide do you mean to say alm farm that I 1 have made the best in the parish is not mine to leave as I 1 lika it is only yours to live on said the other then I 1 aint going to die neither did slip she is alive and lias made enough to buy another farm he declares with great satisfaction is she will leaie 03 she pleases |