Identifier: mindbodyhypnotis00halp (find matches)
Title: Mind and body; hypnotism and suggestion applied in therapeutics and education
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Halphide, Alvan Cavala
Subjects: Hypnotism Therapeutics, Suggestive
Publisher: Chicago, The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ht she was so far recoveredthat she ran errands to the market for her moth-er quite freed from the necessity of having anddoing the things that her mother did. I calleda month or so later and found that she was welland happy and was informed that she had beenattending the public school for several weekspast. Patients often simply need a little encourage-ment to help them to throw off an abnormalcondition which if allowed to continue woulddevelop into a serious disease. How much bet-ter it is to recognize this condition in our pa-tients and give the encouragement than to neg-lect the essential thing and fill them full of noxi-ous drugs. Here is an example: A lady past the prime of life came un-der my care during the absence of herfamily physician. She told me of her longillness and of the unsuccessful efforts thathad been made to cure her of this protract-ed condition of nervous prostration. And in-cidentally she told me how blue and despond-ent she was and assured me that she had lost
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EMOTION.—See Page ioo. SUGGESTION IN THE WAKING STATE. 143 hope of recovery. She had been a sensible busi-ness woman, but in some way, probably throughworry and sorrow, had lost her grip upon her-self and upon life as well. I made it my businessfor a couple of days to convince the lady thatshe was not only curable but that I was the per-son who could and would cure her. She laidhold of the hope I held out to her and restedpassively on my promise, with the result thatshe stopped thinking of her ailment, regainedher appetite, was able to sleep again and in shorther malady disappeared like darkness before therising sun. When her family physician returnedin a few days she told him she was so well thatshe_did not need any more medicine for the pres-ent. To put it mildly, he was amazed, and latercame to me and asked if I were still treating thelady. I had not stolen his patient. I had curedher by making her believe she was curable andthat she had found the means of cure. Her med-icine was

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