THE CHRISTCHURCH HEALER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8901, 22 August 1907, Page 2

THE CHRISTCHURCH HEALER.

Auckland Doctors Testimonial. An Incredible Story. Tor Press Association. Auckland, August 21. In reference to the publication in the Oliristchureh Press of a testimonial from Dr Bakeweil, of Auckland, respecting tho benefit received from treatment by an unregistered medical practitioner named Stanton who was sentenced to 4 months' imprisonment the oilier day, Dr Bakewell, interviewed by a Uerald reporter to-night, said lie had not the slightest doubt that he had been really cured, of cancer by Stanton through hypnotic suggestion, and as far as the white powders given him to take were com-orned he did not believe they had anything to rto with tho case beyond keeping up tho suggestion. Anyone who laughed at the idea of hypnotic suggestion in medical science must be very ignorant of what had bet n going on in the medical world. Three well-known medical men had diagnosed his case as cancer, in tho throat. "At the time,'" he said, "it was either Stanton or deliberate suicide. I was in terrible despair, knowing the disease meant certain death, and was in that state of mind when suicide seemed the only course. I shall never forget Stanton's piercing look and the good he did for me. Many medical men wrote to me on the subject including the British Medical Association in Wellington. I replied that I lnul been cured by Stanton and that before they blamed me for going to him let them wait till they felt themselves condemned to death as I was. A man is not endowed with superhuman wisdom because he has passed the examinations of n medical corporation."