In the January Journal some cases of impersonal healing were given, and three cases are here given which will be more strictly called unconscious healing. The first one is that of the sister of my cousin's wife. Three years ago she was in poor health, with a tendency towards lunacy or mania that was supposed to run in the family. While she was visiting my cousin, knowing that we had done something for her, she remarked in a questioning way, "I wonder if they could do anything for me?" My cousin, not being much of a believer in Science, paid almost no attention to the remark. A year from that time the sister was sent to an asylum in New York state for treatment for monomania.
After she had been there a year my cousin visited her and found her worse than when she went there the year before. Then my cousin wrote to me quoting the remark that her sister had made the year before.
I immediately wrote back what had been done in cases of that kind, and what I would do for her if it could be brought about. She wrote to her sister what I offered to do. A good deal of correspondence was held, and the result was that she thought that it could not be arranged; so I thought that the matter was closed. But in the last letter to me my cousin wrote that since the correspondence had been going on, and the case was more or less in our thoughts, her sister had shown marked improvement in all her symptoms. That was, as far as I can remember, about February, 1897; but in the first of the following summer my cousin wrote me that her sister had so far recovered that she had been discharged from the asylum and had been sent to her own home. A letter, later by some months, stated that her sister was still getting better.
