im of Mlle. Kauffmant is to fill the child
within and enwrap it without with the creative thoughts of health and
joy. To this end she enlists any and every means within her power.
The child itself, as soon as it is old enough to speak, is required to
say, morning and night, the general formula: "Day by day, in every way,
I'm getting better and better." If it is confined to its bed, it is
encouraged to repeat this at any time and to make suggestions of health
similar to those formulated in the sittings. No special directions are
given as to how this should be done. Elaborate instructions would only
introduce hindersome complications. Imagination, the power to pretend,
is naturally strong and active in all children, and intuitively they
make use of it in their autosuggestions. Moreover, they unconsciously
imitate the tone and manner of their instructress.

But the centre of the child's universe is the mother. Any system which
did not utilise her influence would be losing its most powerful ally.
The mother is encouraged during the day to set an example of
cheerfulness and confidence, to allude to the malady only in terms of
encouragement--so renewing in the child's mind the prospect of
recovery--and to exclude as far as possible all depressing influences
from its vicinity. At night she is required to enter the child's
bedchamber without waking the little one and to whisper good
suggestions into its sleeping ear. Thus Mlle. Kauffmant concentrates a
multiplicity of means to bring about the same result. In this she is
aided by the extreme acceptivity of the child's mind, and by the
absence of that mass of pernicious spontaneous suggestions which in the
adult mind have to be neutralised and transformed. It is in children,
then, that the most encouraging results may be expected. I will quote
three cases which I myself investigated to show the kind of results
Mlle. Kauffmant obtains:

A little girl was born without the power of sight. The visual organs
were intact, but she was incapable of lifting her eye-lids and so
remained blind to all intents and purposes up to her seventh year. She
was then brought by the mother to Mlle. Kauffmant. After a fortnight's
treatment the child began to blink; gradually this action became more
frequent, and a month after the treatment began she could see well
enough to find her way unaided about the streets. When I saw her she
had learnt to distinguish colours--as my own experimen