The Science of Personal Magnetism and The Art of Its Application for the Treatment of Disease 1923 E.L. Swick ~Alternative Magnetic Healing

Title: The Science of Personal Magnetism and The Art of Its Application for the Treatment of Disease, Including a Treatise on Massage and the Diet

Author: Dr. E. [Edward] L. Swick, S. T. S. P. / [Introduction by Dr. Emery C. Williamson]

Description: Hardcover in original brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Light wear to spine ends and corners. Interior is unmarked. Soiling in the margin of a few pages. Frontispiece portrait of author. x + 368 pages. Five institutional copies located on OCLC.

A handbook on magnetism and practical methods magnetic healing. Includes more than sixty chapters that describe the treatment of various diseases and ailments, from asthma to yellow fever, and providing in many cases stories of successful healings. The volume concludes with a section on suggestions for ''selling healing'' to the sick.

Dr. Edward L. Swick (abt 1873-1954) was a longtime practitioner and lecturer on magnetic healing in the Seattle area. In 1912 he was advertising his drugless therapies as offered at the Swick Sanitarium, and in 1916 ads appeared for the Swick Institute of Magnetism and Suggestion. Both were located in Downtown Seattle. He was also the author of several other books, including Subconscious Mind: what it is and how to apply it (1924), The Key to Health (1925), and The Drugless Family Physician: a treatise on overcoming and preventing disease by correct eating (1926).

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: [published by author / Press of Pigott Printing Concern, Inc.]
Place: Seattle
Year: 1923

Keywords: alternative healing, wellness, naturopathy, naturopathic, magnetism, healing, quackery,