Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1915 — MAKES LAUGH PRODUCING PILLS [ARTICLE]

MAKES LAUGH PRODUCING PILLS

Physician Says Chaarfulnass la Best Cura Poslble for Illness. * A famous physician once said that over half of all who call In the doctor would get well without any medicine if the doctor only keeps them cheerful, that many of the remaining half needed only a bare pill—their Imagination would do the rest. Imaginary Ills, or ills produced by the power of the mind, often baffle physicians. We all know how some people in reading patent medicine literature become selfled with all the symptoms they find described. And It Is largely In the cases of people like these that patent medicines have wrought their cures, for no one can dispute that many Imaginative people have felt beneficial effects from such nostrums. It Is largely In imaginary Ills similar to those I have mentioned that mental science has worked Its good. It has also effected cures In .ills other than imaginary, but the sickness was largely brought on through fear, or some other wrong thinking and the cure was worked by the suggestive influence of one person’s mind over another’s. Even if these functional diseases are purely Imaginary, they cause the patient as much pain and incapacitate him as much for work as any organic disease. It Is a physician's duty to heal the sick, whether It Is a sick body or a sick mind. Physical disorders need physical treatment, but mental disorders need mental treatment. A physician who would neglect the mind while treating the body would not be doing his full duty. Probably few movements in the history of mankind have been of more vital significance than that n<Jw on foot in America to put psychotherapy to effective use. And it is largely to physicians that the world now owes the usefulness of psychotherapy, for they have had a vast lot to do with bringing it to the place It now holds in science.— Woman’s World.