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...Brooks House pursuit of a mental healer for the distressed Yardlings has its parallel in the currents of life outside the academic fold. The greatly increasing quantities of nervous disorders occurring in our megalopolitan civilization, which was first noticed about 1820 with the final crystallization of the industrial society, have illumined the lack of adequate facilities for treating and especially for diagnosing the maladjusted. Of the cases that now come to the doctors, apparently requiring even surgical treatment, the number that can be found wholly mental in origin is only beginning to be appreciated. And for the first time...
...Francisco ("The Great Aztec") Olazabal, swarthy, plump Mexican faith-healer, rise beside their Founder, kiss him full in the mouth, declare he was bringing 50,000 Mexican followers into the lap of the Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson...
...sinister but fascinating mental healer, Osgood Perkins has never had better lines to wrap his tongue about. He begins with the observation that "Maine is a masculine Riviera." He progresses to Bismarck's solution of the Irish question, to wit: send the Irish to Holland, the Dutch to Ireland. The Dutch would soon make Ireland a garden. The Irish would soon forget to mend the dikes. Finally he reaches the heart of his cynically expedient philosophy by recalling that he started out as an eye-ear-nose-&-throat man, but soon shifted to psychiatry because "the poor have tonsils...
...real. God is all, and God is love. God is my Father, and God is my Friend. God is keeping me, and God is helping me." Though the Christian Science Monitor effectively opposed him in last year's California campaign, he tells how a Christian Science healer once saved his life when he was dying of hiccups. Coue technique cured his wife's varicose veins. Sinclair deplores the lapse of the Church's healing powers, remarks feelingly: "Many people feel that it is beneath the dignity of an inspired religion like Christianity to concern itself with people...
...find that she denied the ministrations of a medical practitioner, through a stubborn belief in the efficiency of prayer by a paid healer, and that her recovery was retarded thereby, you would be unfair to your oath if you charged Cisler with these injuries. If she claimed that there is no pain and that the way of relief is through the teachings of Mrs. Eddy you cannot make Cisler...