BERNHEIM'S EXPERIMENT Bernheim was professor of medicine at Nancy, He relates the story of a man whose tongue was paralyzed. Every form of treatment was tried, with no success at all. Then one day the man's doctor announced that he had learned of a new instrument that was certain to relieve his problem. The doctor then put a pocket thermometer in the patient's mouth . The patient imagined this was the instrument that was to save him . In few moments he cried out joyfully that he could once move his tongue freely. Bernheim continues: A young girl came into his office , having suffered from complete loss of speech for nearly four weeks . After making sure of diagnosis, He told students that loss of speech sometimes yielded instantly to electricity, which might act simply by its suggestive influence. He sent for the induction apparatus. He applied his hand over the larynx and mov...
THE MONK OR THE MIND In perth, western australia , a man suffered from tuberculosis. His lungs were badly diseased. His son decided to help his father heal himself. He went to his father 's home and told him he had recently met a wandering monk with strange powers. This monk had just returned from a long stay at one of the most celebrated healing shrines in Europe. There he had acquire a small fragment of True Cross, set in a ring that dated back to the Middle Ages. Over the centuries, countless suffers had been healed after touching the ring or the fragment of the Cross. When the son had heard this he had told the monk about his father's illness and begged to borrow the ring . The monk had agreed . The son then gave the monk free-will offering of the equivalent of $500. When the son showed his father the ring, the older man practically snatched it from him. He claspe...
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