One such story is "Jacob's ladder" or stairway.

The stairway has been arranged.

The "suggestor" guides the patient gently up or down, either to the attic, or basement to where the "treasure" is to be had.

If you are not obstreperous, in the dreamy state of "mental abstraction" if you are tolerably open to the process, you can enter the deep sleep of complete "hypnosis," or follow the outline of "Spiritual Mind Treatment."

The patient will simply follow the guidance of the practitioner.

Prof. William James of Harvard, who is one of the trusted advisors of Dr. Worcester in the "Emmanuel Movement," tells us that the anaesthetic power of suggestion is so great that legs and breasts may be amputated, children born, teeth extracted, etc., positively without pain with its use alone.

Functional diseases, which include those where there is an interruption of the normal workings of an organ without any appreciable change in its structure, especially those of a nervous character, are said to yield in almost every instance to this suggestive treatment.

As to the power of suggestion to cure organic diseases, which are those where an organ is broken down structurally, there is a wide difference of opinion.

Dr. Weir Mitchell says, "No organic disease was ever cured by it, and its legitimate uses are circumscribed." Dr. Cabot analyzes one hundred alleged Christian Science cures about Boston, and having traced them back in their history, finds them to be composed in nearly every case of purely functional ailments.

Prof. Dubois, Dr. Worcester and his colleagues, and nearly the entire medical profession confine its efficiency to the same sphere.

On the other hand, Dr. Schofield is inclined strongly to the opposite opinion, and argues that the distinction between functional and organic diseases is after all rather a gratuitous one, as disturbed work in an organ is pretty conclusive evidence that there is a disturbance of the tissue composing the organ.

In his late work, The Mental Factor in Medicine, he quotes liberally from several noted physicians of the regular school in vindication of his position. From Dr. Tuke he gives this list of diseases as having been cured by suggestion without hypnotism: "Toothache, sciatica, painful joints, rheumatism, gout, plurodyma, colic, epilepsy, whooping cough, contracted limbs, paralyses, headache, neuralgias, constipation, asthma, warts, scurvy, dropsy, intermittent fevers, and often impending death."

The Christian Scientists attempt both classes of disease and are now engaged in a controversy with the leaders of the Emmanuel Movement over the matter,

The Eddyists claim a monopoly on the practice taking umbrage at the infraction of this new group upon what their founder termed her exclusive revelation. and seek to crush the claim that any other group can use these methods by any other name.

Dr. Bell is said to be able to cure exophthalmic goiter in from three to four days with nothing but suggestion.

The last word on that claim has not been spoken yet.

But under and through all the forms and varieties of this sixth system of psychic healing, the axe-blade is the same psychic principle of suggestion.

Watch it cut!

"There are subliminal reservoirs within you from which you may draw health, if you will but tap them; these hidden resources are yours to use: they are flowing in on your life now; they are lifting you; you are not weary; you are not sick; you are getting stronger; you are strong, vigorous, well."

Or if the person has been hypnotized the treatment runs something like this:

"When you wake up, your disease (whatever it may be) will be gone, your organs will perform all their functions normally; you will be well and strong. Now mind! Go asleep!"