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From Pat Deveney's database:
Magnetic Journal.
Printed in the Interest of the Sick and Afflicted.
1898—1903? Monthly (irregular)
Nevada, MO. Language: English.
Editor: Sidney A. Weltmer. Succeeded by: Weltmerism (April 1901); Weltmer Journal (1906?); Fulfillment (1906); New Thought (Chicago)
1/1, 1898-1903(?) 40 pp., probably free of charge. "By writing Prof. S.A. Weltmer, Nevada, Mo., you will receive the Magnetic Journal, 40-page illustrated magazine, and long list of the most remarkable cures ever performed." This was the advertising vehicle for Sidney A. Weltmer and his mental-healing sanitarium and school in Nevada, Missouri. It was replete with endorsements, advertisements for cures and courses in mental healing, and rapturous testimonials from cured patients (illustrated with before and after photographs), and was the companion to Weltmer’s more sedate Weltmer’s Magazine. Selections from the journal were republished by Weltmer in 1899 as Weltmerisms, or, Pointed Paragraphs Related to Magnetic Healing. Crabtree 1446. The issue for January 1903 is in the Weltmer papers at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
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Read across 1903, the Magnetic Journal is an organ of Sidney Weltmer's celebrated “Weltmer Method” of magnetic healing, run from his healing school in Nevada, Missouri. Its content is the commercial magnetic-healing business — healing by magnetic influence, and above all “absent treatment,” the practice of sending healing to a distant, time-appointed patient by post — with a masthead claiming validation from scripture and from the courts alike. It shows mesmerism's healing fluid turned into a thriving mail-order industry, and it is a direct bridge to New Thought's own “absent treatment”: the same distant-healing product, sold across two movements.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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