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Mind removes scrofula

To prevent or to cure scrofula and other so-called he- reditary diseases, you must destroy the belief in these ills and the faith in the possibility of their trans- mission. The patient may tell you that he has a humor in the blood, a scrofulous diathesis. His

parents or some of his progenitors farther back have so believed. Mortal mind, not matter, induces this con- clusion and its results. You will have humors, just so long as you believe them to be safety-valves or to be ineradicable.