OF MENTAL HEALING. BY son's CHAS. M. BARROWS, AUTHOR OF "BREAD PILLS: A STUDY OF MIND-CURE," ETC. BOSTON: H. H. CARTER & KARRICK, No. 3 BEACON STREET. 1887. PREFACE. A LITTLE more than two years ago there was published a pamphlet entitled, "Bread Pills: A Study of Mind-Cure," the purpose of which was to direct attention to the subject presented, and lead thoughtful persons to perceive that psychical healing has a basis in reason. Perhaps the essay owes a wider circulation than its merits would seem to justify to the fact that it was written in popular instead of technical language, and was not pitched on too high a key. The writer of that pamphlet, though not himself engaged in the work, has enjoyed exceptional facilities for studying the operation of mental healing, and investigating a great number and variety of cases of alleged cure. He is convinced by the results of many careful tests, that if the mental treatment of disease be not all that its most sanguine advocates picture it, it is a powerful therapeutic agent when skilfully used, and based on a philosophy which has done the world incalculable good. The first question asked about mind-cure is a material one. Are there any genuine cures? It |