A course of practical psychic instruction.

  • Psychic Research Co.
Date:
1901,
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Credit: A course of practical psychic instruction. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    beautiful. It aptly bears out the teachings of Christ. It a a casting of bread upon the waters which returns again and again It is a giving of alms which is restored to the giver an hundred fold. It is for many the gate not only to physical strength and health but to the unfoldment of the higher life within. The development of the spirit along the thought-plane is very marked among those who give themselves in thought to the pursuit of this noble work. : . Natural Aids to Cure.—We must not overlook in the treatment of our patients those material aids to physical health which are the mainstay of every reasonably con- ducted sanitarium in the world to-day. While I may be- lieve with many of the best thinkers of the age that the practice of medicine as we know it to-day is largely an experi- ment and uncertainty, yet we must not disparage the great work of those far-seeing physicians who have made the practice of pre- ventive medicine their study; who have given their time to the better knowledge of Hygiene, of Diet, of Massage, of Electricity, Water and Rest, preferring to work with the reasonable and sim- ple means which nature has placed in man's way for the improve- ment of his physical condition, rather than to experiment with dangerous drugs. Chief among thes<_ aids to health I place the right use of Breathing. I desire you especially to instruct your patients in a knowledge of the value of the right use of the lungs to man. In the Bible the word spirit is used in place of the strict meaning of the Greek word Pneuma, the Breath. The importance of breathing is never properly enforced upon the young; if it were, there would be in this country no such thing as tuberculosis; no such thing as consumption; since every phy- sician will agree with me that no child is ever born into this world having consumption developed in him. A proper exercise of the lungs would absolutely prevent the development of the germ of this terrible scourge, and I therefore make it a most important point in this Course of Instruction that you add to your knowl- edge and to your form of treatment the points contained in the following paragraph, and instruct your patients along these lines, besides following them yourself. Breathing for Health.—In order that your patient may get the full benefit of this course of treatment he must pay particular attention to three things. The first is the act of breathing, the second is the drinking of sufficient cold water, in very small quan-
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