Divine Library is a free online public library that includes free eBook downloads and free audio books.
We work with New Thought Seekers and Sharers around the world
insuring that all New Thought Texts in the Public Domain
are available for you to read on the web for free, forever!
Navigate through this book by clicking Next Page or Previous
Page below the text of the page & jump directly to chapters using the chapter numbers above the text.
or the fear of indigestion; but this another story, which I will tell you a little farther on.
Suppose, instead of strawberries. and cream, I tell you of something horrible and disgusting, --- say a dead cat. Pretty soon you begin to be nauseated; and you may even vomit. How can the thought of a dead cat cause vomiting? Only by causing the brain power to be turned on to the stomach with that intention; and that is the only way an emetic can produce its effect. Nothing but the brain can cause vomiting; an emetlc introduced into a dead man's stomach lies inert and powerless. Some emetics act through belief only; others, perhaps, irritate the sensory nerves of the stomach in such a way as to cause the power to be turned on; but it is always the brain which really empties the stomach.
Of course there are medicines which set directly on the parts with which they come in contact --- corrosive chemicals which effect the lining membranes of the alimentary canal. These ought never to be taken, and the ignorance which prescribes them is homicidal. Irritation of the sensory nerves, in any part of the body, causes the power to be turned on in. that direction. That, as I have mentioned in a previous chapter, explains the action of all "strengthening," "soothing," "healing" and other applications. A mustard plaster has no power to increase action in the parts beneath it; but its irritation causes the brain to act.
