er course.

The general opinion that functional and nervous diseases alone are
susceptible to suggestive treatment is at variance with the facts.
During Coue's thirty years of practice, in which many thousands of
cases have been treated, he has found that organic troubles yield as
easily as functional, that bodily derangements are even easier to cure
than nervous and mental. He makes no such distinctions; an illness is
an illness whatever its nature. As such Coue attacks it, and in 98 per
cent. of cases he attains in greater or less degree a positive result.

Apart from the permanently insane, in whose minds the machinery of
autosuggestion is itself deranged, there are only two classes of
patient with whom Induced Autosuggestion seems to fail. One consists
of persons whose intelligence is so low that the directions given are
never comprehended; the other of those who lack the power of voluntary
attention and cannot devote their minds to an idea even for a few
consecutive seconds. These two classes, however, are numerically
insignificant, together making up not much more than 2 per cent. of the
population.

Autosuggestion is equally valuable as an aid to surgical practice. A
broken bone--the sceptic's last resource--cannot of course be treated
by autosuggestion alone. A surgeon must be called in to mend it. But
when the limb has been rightly set and the necessary mechanical
precautions have been taken, autosuggestion will provide the best
possible conditions for recovery. It can prevent lameness, stiffness,
unsightly deformity and the other evils which a broken limb is apt to
entail, and it will shorten considerably the normal period of
convalescence.

It is sometimes stated that the results obtained by autosuggestion are
not permanent. This objection is really artificial, arising from the
fact that we ignore the true nature of autosuggestion and regard it
merely as a remedy. When we employ autosuggestion to heal a malady our
aim is so to leaven the Unconscious with healthful thoughts, that not
only will that specific malady be excluded, but all others with it.
Autosuggestion should not only remove a particular form of disease, but
the tendency to all disease.

If after an ailment has been removed we allow our mind to revert to
unhealthy thoughts, they will tend to realise themselves in the same
way as any others, and we may again fall a victim to ill-health. Our
sickness may take the same form as on the