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And here I would like to remark, filling up, etc. Beads of perspira tion cover his brow till the morning en passant, on the nervous current paper arrives to disillusion him. which flows from the brain into all Poor man! he knows that he is at parts of the body. If the concer- the mercy of his ideas, and buffetted tration on the foot is well done, by them. Then he falls into crises a peculiar tingling sensation is FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, of acute mental anguish and tor- felt, and Dr. Vittoz claims that the ture melancholy and depression. temperature of the foot rises (there And very often his mental malady you have a cure for cold feet). I passes into an organ and produces have not yet tested this. This ner- functional diseases, there, simulat vous influx also has a sanative effect. I have seen a case of ob- ing real organic disease. It is a rich cause of stomachic and intesstinate chronic constipation yield at once to well done concentrations tinal derangements, also heart and circulatory disturbances, oven simu on the intestinal canal. In cases lating paralysis. When these fune-of Hyperchlorhydria, a type of in- tional organic disturbances come digestion frequently due to neuras- they often mask the primary mental theri, similar concentration often disease by causing the patient to works marvels. In cases of neu centre his thoughts more on his ralgic pain in neurotic people a concentration at ance arrests, the maladies than on anything else..

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The concentrations are increased until the patient can make a medita the troubles of the neurasthenie. A tion or follow a train of thought lack of consciousness in his acts and without distraction for a abort sensations, blurring and deformity period. He then goes on to decon This lack of mind a blank. To do this the control over them. control is not due to destruction of patient concentrates on the number 4.1 and then mentally ruba it out the will, but to inability to use it."

Such was the problem that Dr.leaving the mind void of ideas. Vittoz had to face. He cbserved When the inevitable distraction, an

Teak Bedstead, Teak Wardrobe that the eyes and facial muscles idea in this case, comes, he immed- give some indication of the mental iately makes another concentration with Glass Doors, Teak Dressing atruggles raging within an ordinary on "" and then when he has rid Table, Tenk Chest of Drawers, Sew man; and being aware of the himself of the unwelcome visitor,ing Machine, Enamel Bath, Porcelaia tremendous confusion of ideas and he rubs the "" out again, leng Basin, Cooking Stove, Kitchen great anguishes of soul in the thening the spaces between the con- Utensils, etc. neurasthenic, he felt certain that centration as much as possible. I there must be some external mani- may remark that it is an excellent festation or symptom of them also. method of inducing sleep. - He searched for the signs and found them.

Re-educating the Will

The last stage of the excreises consists in the re-educating of the There has been a certain Will.

Also

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After a certain amount of train ing he found that if the hand is placed on the patient's forehead amount of augmentation of will A QUANTITY OF BLACK-. certain delicate little vibrations are power in the preceding exercises, WOOD FURNITURE. felt. These vibrations accompany but it is accessory, to go further. thought regularly; however, much This is done by a scheme of they may change in speed, just as graduated exercises of pure acts of TERMS-CASH ON DELIVERY, the beat of the heart is regular at the Free Will

different rates of speed. If, dar- In doing the exercises of the will ing a train of thought, another idea Dr. Vittoz insists that we should breaks in, there is an interruption imitate a normal act in all its or irregularity of the vibrations. mechanism. In an act of the will Moreover, the character of the

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inspiration, a every physiolo- PUBLIC AUCTION. gist knows.

3-There is always a contraction

vibrations change according to the we notice three physical factors:

1-It is always done in full mental state of the patient. In the:

inspiration of the lungs, the normal man they are regular. In

tense chest serving, as it were, the neuraathenic in a state of ex-

na a point d'appui for tho citation they are rapid and irregular.

emission of the energy. In e neurasthenic in a state of

2.--The pulse rate is increased. torpor they are slow, scarcely per

When e

This happens automatically on ceptible; and irregular. normal man takes a sensation' well and is fully conscious of it, the mind stops working and becomes free from ideas. The vibrations then die down and may be imper ceptible. It is difficult to say what these vibrations are due to. Evi. dently they do not come through the skull. They are felt as little un- dulations of the skin, and Dr. Vittoz thought they were due to the little muscles of the skin which give rise to the phenomenon of "GOOBE Skin," influenced, no doubt, by vascular disturbance. I need hard-

of the body muscles.

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It it is only a vague idea the will cannot act. The Will feeds on clear ly remind you that. Dr. Vittoz did cut ideas. We must be 'sincere, for not claim to know what a man was doubt paralyses the will. thinking about from the observation He commences with small exer- of these vibrations. He only claim-cises as before: Will to stand up. ed to follow. a mental process and to sit down, inflating the chest and

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Cleansing the Mind.

the ordinary act of the will, at the same time placing the three psychic Leading the Patient to Health.

conditions, cited above, for a pure Armed, then, with this method of set of the will. He increases the, controlling the mental processes of difficulty of the act as one pro his patients, he proceeded to build

Take a walk, walk up- up a system by which he could stairs, scatter a lot of paper on restore to the patients normal sen- the ground and collect it, eté sation, normal consciousness, normali

The Will Free and Spiritual. ideas and normal use of the will.

He did this by a series of Many people mistake a desire gradunted exercises Beginning with or an impulse for an act of the simple ones he led the patient on will (all acts. of the will are, of and on to more difficult ones, until courac, internal; the external act it issued in normal action.

is but its complement. They ob- "How, think you, that I He started with sensation. To ject: placed his hand on the patient's should will to do a thing that I forehead and got him to try to take do not will?" The exact transla in a pure, conscious sensation, rid- tion of their thought should be: ding his mind of all ideas, oven "How, do you think, that I should Bo ends a necessarily bald sketch if it were only for a few seconds will a thing that I do not desire" of Dr. Vittor's treatment of simple at firet. He could tell by the The will is a form of active energy, cases of neurasthenia In the time vibrations if the patient performed it alone is free and spiritual. The at my disposal I could but touch the exercise properly. This con- desire is passive, it is a blind sub-on" various points of the system, scious act of taking a scasation jection to appetite. The following and my hope is that I shall have rests the poor brain, and, if re- little story illustrates a sublime communicated to you a little of the peated throughout the day, acts as act of the Free Will A little nun interest I feel in it myself. I shall a brake on the averworked mind. at Molokai, who, spent her life conclude with a few practical re- It requires practice to do its The amongst the lepers, was told by marks on insomnia or sleeplessness: patient listens, for instance, to the touris as he left her after inspect- ticking of a clock, ridding his minding the settlement, that he would of all thought, hanging on to the not take her place for 8100,000 a We cannot arrest the ideas coursing Bound, as it were, without effort. year. Neither would I!" said she, through the brain, or we have a By degrees he can prolong this Yet she remained on, by a splendid phobia, or fear attaching itself & state and change from one sensation act of free will, soaring high, overhypersensibility of the ear, reader- to another now he listens to the sordid desire, and weakening emo-ing a noise so repugnant that we clock, now he looks at a tree, now tion, riding roughshod over all cannot go to sleep. I have already be feels the table..

that makes life dear, hinging her pointed out to you a method of a supernatural arresting the ideas that impede He next trained the patient to act of will on concentrate, first by following motive far removed from all those sleep, viz, by deconcentration. The simple mathematical figures, such as lowering inclinations. She had a method I have found best is to hang a straight line or the sign of in- desire, like the rest of us, toon to the sensation of a regular finity, and then increasing theif avoid the unpleasantness, but she sound; the tound of an alarm clock complexity. While doing this the triumphed over it by her will power. ticking is ideal, or even a watch patient thinks of nothing else, keep- An impulze has the same charac-under the pillow Eliminate all ing his mind free from all distracteristics as a desire, but it is ideas from the mind and attend tions. The moment the distraction stronger, more disordered, uncurb only to the ticking of the clock. occurs, the Doctor, controlling the ed and without liberty. A man This attention in itself eliminates vibrations, immediately becomes does not will to follow an impulse, the ideas to a great extent. If the exercise is well done the brain aware of it, and jolts the patient he is its slave.

Once the will is restored to ocases working, the ideas depart, back to the exercise.

normality all trouble disappears, and after a short period we are and the patient is once more the sunk in slumber, sweet, dead to He next makes the patient con- captain of his soul and the master desire and innocent as babes, for at least in the twenty-four centrate on various parts of his of his destiny, in so far is God once

hours. body. The patient concentrates, for leaves it to him.

Concentration.

A great number of cases are due to insuficient control of our ideas.