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and without the usual medium of speech.

The law of telepathy or thought transmission is now accepted by scientific men the world over, but I am assuming that you do not know this and that the subject is entirely new to you; in which event you have a simple experiment at hand. It is easy to try it and convince yourself, for personal experience goes a long way toward conviction, in fact, conviction seldom comes without it.

There is a large hospital in Paris called La Salpetriere. It is one of the oldest and largest hospitals there, covering an area of seventy-four acres and consisting of forty-five large blocks. In that hospital the patients are treated almost entirely by the power of thought. The doctors there do not call it mental healing, however; they call it hypnotic suggestion, but thought power is the agent just the same. They do some queer things there which you would hardly believe did not the reputation of the physicians and the standing of the hospital back up the statements.

Now, hypnotic suggestion differs from mental healing in several respects, one of which I will mention. In hypnotic suggestion it is deemed necessary to throw the patient into a peculiar state of sleep which is called hypnosis. In mental healing we do not think that essential,