Not long since, a lady entered the office of a well known dentist in a neighboring city, to have some teeth extracted, but decided she could not endure the pain without the aid of some stupefying agent. She accordingly chose gas. The dentist thought he had his apparatus ready for administering the same, and said to his patient, I will attend to you now. She took the chair. He proceeded, as he supposed, to administer the gas; the patient, under the same belief, receiving it with the usual inhalations. She became unconscious, the teeth were extracted: then she revived and said she had suffered no pain. But the dentist, on returning to his instrument, discovered, to his utter amazement, that his patient had taken no gas, that none had been administered and none generated; and had there been, his apparatus had become detached in such a manner that it was impossible for his patient to have inhaled it.
These facts were narrated to me by the dentist whom I know very well to be a gentleman of veracity. He also further stated that this circumstance was only one of several similar ones that had come under his observation during his long experience in dentistry. In the light of the foregoing, who cannot see that Mind, and not matter, feels, and the body responds alone to a belief. I know this is true, and shall follow the lead thereof.
