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strong blister, as may be seen by the effect produced by numbers 2 and 3.

What a wonderful power this is, to be sure, that can turn a drop of pure, cold water into a violent irritant, or a fly-blister into something as harmless as a postage stamp.

I could tell you of many other curious experiments that are performed not only in La Salpetriere, but in other hospitals, and by many physicians in their private practice. Dr. Charcot, whose standing at the head of the medical profession no one will question, is known to have used hypnotic suggestion largely and in preference to drugs, and the same is true of many of the most advanced physicians of the day.

I will now quote from the Medical Summary, of Philadelphia, which says editorially:

"A popular writer has said that suggestion is the moving power in the treatment of disease.

Experienced practitioners habitually employ it to advantage of the patient. Prudent friends and callers at the bedside practice suggestion by taking with them the assurance of better things to come. A word of cheer, the reassuring smile, inspires hope this, too, is suggestion.

Rheumatic rings, magnetic healing, and divine healing all have their tap root in suggestion. Pain, sleeplessness, neuralgia, rheumatism,