The distinguished young specialist, Dr. George R. Elliott of New York, has diagnosed the case, and pronounces verdict that General Grant will " eventually die."This seems to lengthen the possible period of his stay among a people holding him in grateful reverence, but is a death-sentence nevertheless, and accordant with previous announcements by other physicians. All bodily conditions are thoughts made manifest, and the General's attendants are hastening him toward the manifestation of the death symptoms they hold so definitely in mind, with all the formulating speed they are capable of.
A few years ago a body of learned M. D.'s in London, after due experiment and consultation, came to the unprecedented conclusion that mental states—or mind, can kill! This decision was undisputed in the face of the evidence brought forward, and all the world honors those Solonic Esculapians. But lately it was the marvellous privilege of a woman, in consultation with no one, (mark the significance of the fact that she was alone,) to discover that mind can save life—make alive! How is that glorious revelation received?
A certain known law of electricity has been honored with the name of its discoverer— Ohm's Law of Electricity. The statement of the process of determining in which direction a magnet will be deflected when an electric current is passed over it, is called Amperes' Law —because he discovered it.
