Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1920 — Trance Treatment. [ARTICLE]

Trance Treatment.

Dr. Thomas Pomeroy, a New York physician, is quite an unusual type of doctor, with methods peculiar to himself. When a patient presents himself, Doctor Pomeroy, instead of subjecting him to the conventional examination, takes the patient by the hand, and goes into a kind of trance. During this trance he analyzes all the patient’s symptoms before “coming back to earth,” and dictates a prescription which is taken down on the spot by his niece, who has been his assistant for many years. He uses nothing but herbs in treating his patients, and generally Is averse to surgery. When the trance is over Doctor Pomeroy is seldom able to remember what he said while it lasted, but the method Is said to be so unerring that some of the most successful medical men call him as second opinion in cases where they are In doubt of the correctness of their own diagnoses.