●   ●   ●    informing me that several friends had been urging him to try a mental method of healing which included no medicine and no physical exertion on the part of the patient,—and even mentally they did not require the patient to accept it until relief came and they could better understand it. He had not at first been favorably impressed as such a method was unknown, and he, having studied medicine to a degree,—being a druggist and having practiced dentistry; his thought was that medicine having failed, there was nothing one could resort to; it was like having done everything [and] then expecting nothing to heal one.