Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the communityHooker, Worthington
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Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community
Hooker, Worthington
Medical ethics; Physician and patient; Physicians; Quacks and quackery
I will give an example or two, to show what convenient use can be
made of ears by these clairvoyants.
I once heard a lecturer state the case of a young man, who, he
said, had for a long time suffered severe pain, and had applied to
many physicians without obtaining any relief, or any satisfactory
explanation of his case. His clairvoyant at once directed that a
particular tooth be removed, and said that an abscess could then be
opened above it, the discharge of which would relieve the pain. This
was done, and the patient was relieved. Every one supposed, from
his manner of relating the case, that no one had ever hinted at the
real seat of the disease, and that it was a fresh discovery of his
clairvoyant. It was found, however, that physicians had taken this
view of the case, and that it had been talked about in the family.
The clairvoyant, probably, got her knowledge by her ears, before she
was put into the ‘magnetic state.’
A very shrewd lady accompanied a friend on a visit to a clairvoyant,
in Boston, whom she wished to consult in regard to her child, who
had, by a fall, injured his side. She watched the proceedings of
the parties very narrowly. The clairvoyant was for some time quite
in the dark about the case, and used very indefinite language in
regard to it. At length her mind became suddenly clear in its views;
and it _seemed_ to be done by a whisper uttered by one of the party
to another, in relation to the fall. She at once said, “The child
must have had some accident—he fell down, and as he stretched out
his hands, he struck on his chest, _and the bones have shot by each
other_.” The clairvoyant went a little too far. There is no such
thing as the shooting by of any bones in the chest, at least in any
ordinary accident. These clairvoyants, that see right into people,
often have an anatomy of their own.
We sometimes have an opportunity of testing the clearness of the
medical vision of these clairvoyants. One of them, a few years since,
on examining the case of a child, saw in its intestines three kinds
of worms, which she described with great exactness. It was a very
clear and distinct vision. The child died two days after, and I
assisted in its examination after death. The worms, so distinctly
seen, were not to be found. The magnetizer and his clairvoyant
immediately left for another field of labor.
Some names have become quite celebrated in the annals of quackery. I
will give a passing notice to a few of them.
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