Medical Mesmerism – Some Amusing Facts

[parthens]

Clinical studies published in major medical journals have shown that giving a patient a round, white sugar pill (shaped like an aspirin, for example) indeed produces a healing effect, but not as powerful as does a smaller, blue sugar pill with a letter stamped on it.

Moreover, if the sugar is administered in the form of a capsule, the healing effect is even stronger than the sugar taken in tablet form.

And a white capsule has a weaker healing effect than a capsule that’s yellow on one end and red on the other.

The placebo effect is also enhanced by increasing the dosage: patients taking sugar pill twice a day were not as “benefited” as were those taking the same sugar pill three doses per day.

But beating all those pills out is …[drum roll]… the mighty needle. Study after study has demonstrated that injecting a completely harmless, inert substance into a patient has the strongest effect of all.

See Science and Health, page 156 featuring Mrs. Eddy’s interesting experience with a patient healed of a terrible disease through the placebo effect.

[Florence]

Very true and as a medical nurse I gave per physician orders sterile water injection to substitute Morphine and saw it have the same effect as a morphine injection would have. So go figure to what extent our false beliefs control us!!

So why not choose the right, the real, the true, especially when we come to know better, that man is the manifestation of God!

[JoanneF]

from Carpenter’s Spiritual Precepts:
“In a magazine called Oral Hygiene for April, 1943, there is an incident told by a dentist, Dr. Philip Southward, of Wilmington, Delaware, where one of his patients went into a state of anesthesia upon being given somniform. She experi¬enced no pain when a tooth was extracted, she being in an unconscious state. When the patient had gone, the dentist discovered that the somniform ampule was intact. Since she had taken no gas, his deduction was that she must have hypnotized herself. Here is an instance of a drug that was applied mentally.”

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