MELODY AS CURE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 573, 3 July 1933, Page 2

MELODY AS CURE

PHONO-TRER4PY R^ACTICE OPENED BY WEL4-KN OWN ' MUSICiAN. i 4 V, > HEALING BY CHANTING. Caruso could sh'atter a crystal glass byt singijtig'. a highv jio.te. ;> His was .f (iein.ppstjratipp,. pj (th'e-. dsttuctiye p o wer of, sound. Thera is a wo-man in ChCsyrjck, Londpn, who claims the opposite powerf. f.. .She says she can rebnild broken-down part-s of-the body by soft, b.ell-like.. notes.. .qnd ,^hythniig.;chants. Her..nam,e is .M'a,ud iMacG^.rthy. _ She is the wife ,of . j. B. FoUlds, thecomposer, is herself a well-known musician.fnd daughter of Mr. C. W. MpcOarthy, a Fellow of the Royal College pf Surgeops.f t u Gbmbining' .soienpe. and, art she ,discovered, after years , qf.,research, a method for the curative administration of. sound.. ,Now shiei.is opening a plinic for phono-therapy:.a "bath" of sounds, which she. cl'aims to b.e analogous to suntor sea bafhing,- or treatment by ultra-violet rays. In her turreted castle, Everyone's Concern, Hartington Road, ; Ghiswuck, she gave a demonstration of her mysterious command over sound. From her deep-set eyes, a-glow with. fire, the so.ul -,pf a xpystic shines forth. • She put her palms on the .patients spine., and a low musical .no.te, iwhich is outside the normal range o.f a woman's voice,- broke from her lips; a single

sp.u.nd, starti'.ng. as a hum,..growing .jn voiunm and power, making the ears ring, ahd r.eso.unding in th'e body with the sensation of geiitly lapping waves. An Ahcient Chant. • - .She. changed the note,- ended it in 'a mournful tone, . ahd, listening with the:tips of har fingers, as thpugh. with a stethoscope, she intoned an ancient ch'ant. : Then she explained: "I am. not alone in> my studies *of the power of soqnd. Patients. are treated by .sonnd, colour and scents in the Stats asylum of Chicago. You can raise or lower the .bodily temperatui*e by sound. According to the findings of two Frankf ort d.o.ctors, . so.un.ds have a. stx;ong and beneficial action in cases of muscular deb.ility,.. paralysis, rheumatism .and insomn'.a., They „ experipaented . with certain combined sounds put on gramop.'hone records for ten yeiars. They could not limit the field of cure. "I arrived at the same conclusions independently. Faith and suggestion have nothing to do with the cure. I have successfully treated patients whose cases I thought intractable, and have cured cats -of bad infl'amma.t-ory and other conditions. , . "The point in which I essentially differ from the doctors is that , there is a traceable magnetic infiuence which can be induced by certain practices with sound, and^ which I hold is part of the cure. As a vioKnist I played in the world's bigge-st auditoriums for yeiars. But an instrument alone cannot put you in this close rapport with other people. . . Link in Fingers. "The link is in,your fingers, A per_ feet iear, a fairly good voice, and a completely developed musucal nature axe the fundamentals of ph'ono-thera-py. But the hand as a conveyor of magnetism . pl'ays. an imporiant par.t, It transmits vihratory forces which somehow.I contract through chanting. I c-annot get in touch with theae forces if I do not chant* . . "Every organ, each nerve-centre of the body, has a no.te. My sensitivity is .so acute that when I begin a treatment I can almost inVariably hear the note or- notes in the patient-'s ana.tomy which require to be .dealt with. Thero is a fixed pitch to which we are attuned when in health. Rrofessor Daniel Jones, . the authority on phone-: tics, has measured my .sounds based on th'is pitch with unteresting results. "If la patient's body gives me a note out of.tune to this. pitch I know .that the region to which it corresponds is affected. Diagnosis is correct in. about 70 per cent* of cases. Thp sounds: I adniinister serve the purpoae of readjusting the false pitch. In most cases the patient is helped or cured. "I claim no miraeles, but under proper medieal supervision I have achieved results which warrant the hope that phono-thertapy anay. prove .to be another wonder of- science and- of art."