CURED IN THEIR SLEEP.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 308, 3 October 1929, Page 8

CURED IN THEIR SLEEP.

SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND HEALING. Professor Alexander Erskine, who claims to have effected many cures of both functional and organic diseases by means of neurology and psychotherapeutics, gave an address on the subject at the New Burlington Galleries, London, in which he made some remarkable statements. Faith cures had been effected throughout the ages, he said, but many people could not be cured because of some doubts in their own minds. By his system the patient was induced to sleep, the mind was separated from its physical doubts and became amenable to treatment.

Cures could be effected only where the patient was willing, and then only if he applied his mind to doing what was asked of him. The strong-willed were better subjects than the willed, for they applied their minds more firmly to what was demanded of them.

He gave an instance of a cure ha churned to have effected. Through the introduction of Mr J. Campbell McClure, a Wimpole Street specialist, he treated by his methods a case of acute rheumatoid arthritis, in which # there were inflammatory joints and, adhesions. The man had been de«j(|r

paired of by eminent medical authorities. He persuaded the man to sleep, and, working on his sub-conscious mind, effected a cure. The mind was not the brain, Professor Erskine insisted. In normal working the mind was dependent on the five senses, but when the body was asleep the mind had no need of the senses, as witness the case of the somnambul st. The most start ing claim of all, which he said could be vouched for by Dr. McClure, was the case of a paralysed worman of 25, the wife of a millionaire. This woman declined to be cured. During h s examination he thought he detected traces of drug, 1 but this was denied. He decided to call in Dr. McClure, and discussed the case with him at his house at least two miles from the patient’s home. During the discussion there was present another patient, a man, who was in the state of induced sleep. As an experiment Professor Erskine “sent this man’s mind over to the home of the other patient.” The man speaking in his sleep, said that the millionaire had taken his servants to a&f pantomine, and that the woman was being given a drug from a green tie with a tenspoon by a roan, and " this was slowly killing her. Arrived at the home of the patient he and Dr. McClure found that everything was as the man had said. The woman died because she wished to do so and would not be cured.