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Because Author Rex Ellingwood Beach got fallen arches on an Ontario golf course, some five million readers of the Hearst Press last week learned about a Miraculous Healer. A doctor friend took Author Beach to the village of Williamsburg, some 40 mi. from Ottawa, to see Dr. Mahlon William Locke. While getting his arches treated Author Beach was amazed to learn what thousands of persons from all parts of Canada and the U. S. knew about Dr. Locke; that he treats from 800 to 1,000 a day for rheumatism, arthritis, sciatica, neuritis; that he charges $1 to those...
That the Hearst Press had not known of Healer Locke was a surprise to medical men who have watched his activities for several years. In Ottawa, busses carry signs reading "Williamsburg & Dr. Locke." Hotels in & near Williamsburg are always packed, but charge only $1 per day for a room because Dr. Locke threatened to build his own hotel if they raised their rates. In a small side yard outside his office he places a swivel chair. Patients stand in line waiting their turn to sit in front of him. He twists their feet, cracks the joints, collects $1, calls "Next...
...Healer Locke, an M. D. and licensed physician, treats goitre, delivers babies as well as manipulating feet. But a chief activity is treating arthritis and rheumatism. In Edinburgh he learned that walking too soon after illness frequently caused fallen arches and other foot troubles. He claims that foot ills pave the way for arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica. He believes that by restoring normal foot posture, relieving pressure upon the posterior tibial nerve, he can relieve the diseases. Some physicians, realizing that there is much about these diseases that medicine does not know, believe Dr. Locke may be right. Others, pointing...
...Miracle Man (Paramount) was a vast success when acted by Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson and Lon Chaney in 1919. Now, remade as a talkie, it is an anomalous parable, more confusing than inspiring. Certain vicious characters led by a wretched John Madison (Chester Morris) find an old faith-healer (Hobart Bosworth) practicing his innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches...
Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science turns hypnotism upwards and inwards, makes it mostly self-hypnotism. Cured of incipient paralysis by a professional healer, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, she borrowed his practice, added to it a religious fervor all her own. Faith and churches were her remedies for almost every disease...