In reply, she said, "Oh, I guess if I think the right thoughts it won't make any difference what there is in the water!"

Get the germs of typhoid in your system and let that system be in the condition of harboring, sheltering these germs, and you might think right thoughts all you pleased, and still you would be sick; you might even then refuse to send for the doctor and continue to think right thoughts. There would be a material condition there and if you did not treat it in a material manner, you would die. These people who give utterance to these things are not people with marked powers of reasoning. They swim around on the top but never get into the depth of these subjects. If they would use their deduction and say: "Here, there is foul matter in the water; the refuse of a mighty city. I drink that water. I drink it because I am subject to material thirst. If I have not proclaimed the power of mind enough to cease drinking and live a life in the spirit, maintaining this body through thought alone, I am in no position to battle this material condition we call disease! If that is the case, I must lie on a material plane and I will boil that water. By so doing I may be destroying some of the good principles of the water, but I certainly will be destroying a great many of the bad ones, too. Therefore, I will boil the water!"

If one cares enough for psychology to study it from a sane standpoint, it is a study productive of much good to mankind. Rut if he is to give 'way to the rank deliriums of it, better stay a materialist! The man or woman who can go into the phenomena-hunting part of psychology and come out sane and whole is a wonderful being. A person who can enter these studies and keep away from the "reform" idea will probably succeed, but nine out of every ten entering these fields, develop some unpardonable hobby and the result is chaos.

It is this very reason that men of reason and judgment await results and bide their time before taking hold of these things. They think that there must be something antagonistic to nature, to life, to love, if their fellows are driven to the point of insanity over these things. But we are passing through a stage of progress along these lines. Thirty years have witnessed wonderful progress in the psychic studies. Thirty years hence will witness even more wonderful ones. Why? Simply because wise men will get hold, of these things and will find that there is something to it all that will aid humanity, they will cull out of all branches the false and the true will remain.

The popular fallacy is to call psychology a science. If it is a science, we Know the laws governing it. But we do not know them. We are conversant with certain rules that hold good in most cases. We feel justified in saying that most branches can be taught and learned. But we do not feel that, not knowing the primal principles of mind, we know even the base of psychology. We can produce, we can do, we can display; hence it is an art. There is system about it, results can be obtained by following certain rules. There we stop!

But returning to hypnotism, I will take up the therapeutic value. In speaking of medical hypnotism, I wish to state that I look upon suggestion only as a means of producing results. In the waking or passive states it will do the work to a marked extent. But, combined with the deeper stages of hypnotism, it will accomplish those results much more rapidly and to a more pronounced extent. The condition of somnambulism or of deep sleep shuts out the process of reasoning; it puts the suggestions down where they will do much good and the results are flattering. The class of cases that can be successfully treated through hypnotism are what we would term functional disorders. That is, those in which the nerves fail to fulfill their duties. For an example we will take a case of indigestion. True, this may be caused by some material trouble. but usually it is caused by a functional derangement. The result is shown in the intestines. The system is deranged and much discomfort. material discomfort, will result. Hypnotism can generally be employed to good advantage here. It can be used to increase the peristaltic movement of the intestines, or to control it in many ways. Still, the cause is often overlooked even with an agent as useful as hypnotism. A patient may be treated and be brought back to health and happiness and in another month he will be suffering with the same old troubles. It may be lack of exercise, it may be carelessness in diet, or many other things. Thus, we often find that hypnotism fails where common sense on the part of the patient would win. Psychology does not say that one must try hypnotism wherever hypnotism can be used; it says that the best remedy is the one to employ. If that is exercise, or bathing or diet, it is immaterial. Psychology insists that natural means should be employed where it is possible. It thus opens up a new line of thought and interest. Physical exercise and psychology should go hand-in-hand. If they do, the result will be encouraging. If concentration of the mind is employed in union with a light flexion exercise of the different muscles of the body, the result will be that more real strength and health will be gained than if harsh exercise were engaged in. Some of our greatest athletes today are those who have arisen from ordinary boys to men of power, men or wonderful muscular strength and physical prowess. And these men are seldom giants. In strength they are. but not in stature. One of the world's strongest men does not weigh over one-hundred-andninety pounds. One of the world's greatest athletes, a young man holding three of the world's records, is a slight, spare youth. Yet in both cases, these men concentrated and they succeeded by combining mind with material training.

In surgery, hypnotism can seldom be employed: that is, the per-centage of cases in which it can he used is small. This is not due to the fact that hypnotism is not equal to the occasion, but because, when the hypnotist is called, the patient is usually in too much pain or too weak to be amenable to the suggestions. And, it is seldom that, upon first hypnotizing one, the state is deep enough to produce anaesthesia sufficient to perform a major operation. In the small operations, there is a great field. There are operations in which physicians refuse to give an anaesthetic, unless it is a local application.