Editorial April 25, 1903 Issue

"As He Thinketh."

In a late address before the Homœopathic Medical Society of Chicago, Dr. Arthur G. Sax has made some declarations which bear directly upon the contention of Christian Science respecting the causal relation of given states of mentality to bodily conditions. He is reported to have said that anger and fright lead to the secretion of poison in man, no less surely than in a reptile; the latter, however, has an advantage in the fact that he can store up his deadly venom and so remains uninjured, while man inevitably poisons himself with the product of his desire to injure another. The doctor has thus called attention to a mortal law which has a very comprehensive range of influence in human affairs, and with this professional testimony there has come to us another illustration of its dominion, which has an entirely different setting.

A correspondent in Mexico City writes:-

"An incident occurred at the big bullfight, given Sunday before last, which was not only very interesting but very suggestive. A man afflicted with paralysis sat in the front row of seats with his crutches. During the performance one of the bulls broke through the wooden fence that surrounds the ring, and dashed into the crowd. Men, women, and children screamed and ran for their lives, and among those who ran the liveliest was the 'paralytic.' He did not stop for his crutches,—he simply forgot that he had the paralysis. The Mexican paper mentioned the facts but did not undertake to explain them.'

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