Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1906 — Power of Imagination. [ARTICLE]

Power of Imagination.

It Is conceded by scientists that imagination has much power as a curative agent. A concrete example occurred in the experience of Sir Humphry Davy. A man went to him suffering from paralysis to be treated by electricity. When the patient had seated himself Davy, as a preliminary, placed a small glass thermometer beneath his tongue to take his temperature. The sick man thought that this was the instrument for curing him and declared that he felt it run through all liis system. Davy, curious to see what lasting effect the Imagination would exert, did not undeceive the man, but sent him away, telling him to return daily to have the treatment repeated. The man did as he was told and returned daily to sit in a chair with the end of a little thermometer tucked beneath his tongue. In n few days the paralysis was completely cured by the patient’s own Imagination.