M. COUE'S METHODS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Through the Spectator's review of Professor Baudouin's book I first heard of the Nancy clinic, and as a direct conse- quence went there and obtained great and lasting benefit from M. Coue's instruction in auto-suggestion. I gratefully acknow- ledge my debt to the Spectator for putting me on the track of such a good method, and now beg that you will, Sir, in the interests of the public, correct the impression which seems to exist that M. Cone's patients are expected to deny the evidence of their senses and affirm a felt ill to be non-existent. When addressing a patient in the ordinary way M. Cou6 admits the reality of the ills for which cure is sought. The formulae of suggestion, however, both those which he uses and those employed by the patient, are not assertions addressed to the intellect, but instructions issued to the unconscious mind, whose stimulation reason alone cannot successfully undertake.
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