anic change of the body is instilled into the mind of the
hypnotized, then such change will take place_. In this we have
a foundation for a PSYCHIC THERAPEUTICS which we hope will soon
put an end to the anarchic condition of medicine of the present
day. But the greatest curse to science of old, and which makes
its appearance even to-day, is that _the old ideas are the
greatest enemies of the new_."

"Unfortunately it is the same in the thought realm as in
lifeless nature, _vis inertiae_--the law of indolence, according
to which nature remains in its condition to all eternity, until
she is forced into some new condition from a new cause. This
_vis inertiae_ is harder to conquer in the thought realm than in
lifeless nature, for Mesmer appeared a hundred years ago, and
yet to-day they call him "a perfect charlatan." Braid, thirty
years ago, started hypnotism, but only after Hansen made a
multitude of experiments for profit and pleasure in the largest
cities of Germany, did the physicians wake up to the idea of
investigating it. They teach nothing of mesmerism or hypnotism
at the universities. Yes, even one year ago a professor of
medicine confessed to me, should I pronounce the word
somnambulism I'd be ruined. This is the manner in which ideas
are kept from medical students."

"If medicine, in its results, could look with pride on its
therapeutics, it might be explained. But a therapeutics that
allows thousands of children to sink yearly into untimely graves
from all manner of diseases, that allows a large proportion of
grown persons to be decimated yearly by epidemics, that in its
psychiatry is perfectly impotent to stop the rapid increase of
insanity, that notoriously cannot cure a migraine, a cold, yea,
not even a corn,--such a system ought surely to have some
modesty, and be only too glad to accept improvements that tend
to ameliorate this condition."

CONDITION OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

These remarks of Dr. Du Prel, though somewhat exaggerated, are
probably based on truth in their reference to the backward condition
of the medical profession in Europe, and of all that portion in
America which is essentially European, and governed by European
authority. But the healing art in America has been to a great extent
emancipated by the spirit of American liberty, and in its actual
results among