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of applying to us for treatment. He could tell us of none of sufficient importance to have formed an image. So we had to go on and treat him in the regular osteopathic way for about three weeks, when he told us about a fright he had when he was about 35 years of age. This fright proved the cause of his rheumatism, for immediately from the time we received this information and began to apply the curative or antidotal thought he began to make a most marvelous change for the better.
He said that one day he was watching a painter, standing on a jack outside a third-story window, painting, when suddenly the jack gave away, the painter falling face downward to the ground, with his arms doubled under him, and was killed.
Is it any wonder that under the stress of this harrowing sight that the will of our patient was as passive, and the mind as subjective, as if he were under a hypnotic spell? The first thing that the instinctive part of the mind did while watching the felling of the painter was to tightly and rigidly contract every muscle in our patient's body, unconsciously preparing to resist the shock of that falling body with the earth. That fall was just as vivid and real to our patient's instinctive mind as it would have been had it occupied the body of the unfortunate painter.
From that time on the mind faithfully carried out the image of contraction in all the muscles, even to doubling the arms in front of him, and the only way he could sleep at night was to lie face downward with his arms doubled under him.
