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MENTAL SCIENCE LECTURE

October, 1908
Article
MENTAL SCIENCE LECTURE
October, 1908

On Tuesday evening, September 28, Dr. J. D. Quackenboss of New York, one of the most prominent exponents of mental healing in connection with the medical profession, delivered a lecture on the subject of "Mental Healing" in A Dartmouth. The lecturer spoke of the assistance he had found in hypnotic power and suggestion as connected with his medical work. He was very conservative in his claims for the method, declaring that he did not think it practicable for the curing of organic diseases. He discussed several cases he had treated and gave as a result of his observation that many so-called nervous diseases are mental in character and that the suggestive treatment would invariably be found beneficial in such in. stances.