The Natural Law of Mind Healing and Mind Creating of Sickness, Disease and Deformity

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...most favorable possible conditions." (§ 278.) "The germ of consumption is proof against all the anti-toxin germicides and other specifics ever invented. (§ 279.) "Medicines in many cases do more harm than good; but when they are swallowed and poor nature in spite of them effects a cure, they get all the credit." (§ 280.) The learned doctor says green paint associated with the imagination would be as effective as chloroform, camphor and other liniments. He further says, after naming the medicines usually prescribed for sickness: "Their value--if they have any at all--lies in the fact that they ease the patient's mind and satisfy the universal yearning to take something for it." He further says about some medicine what I claim about all medicine, that, 'Medicines in many cases do more harm than good; but when they are swallowed and poor nature in spire of them effects a cure, they get all the credit." (§ 281.) Doctor William Osier as quoted by Dr. Hirschberg has stated just what I claim is the law of creating disease. Had Dr. Osier said one day, two days or ten days was the time for a cold to run, his patient would have accepted Dr. Osier's conscious conviction and the cold would have run any number of days that the doctor believed it would require to cure the cold, or would have caused catarrh in the head if the doctor so believed. (§ 282.) It is conceded by that medical profession that there is not a single specific lor any known disease; also the same symptoms may indicate different diseases. Liver, kidney.or bladder trouble all have similar symptoms, and all require a certain time to cure, and because the disease does run a certain time and all the symptoms of the disease are...