On awakening from her trance Glover found herself cured. The water massage and hypnotism that he used reportedly had a positive effect. In 1862, Quimby treated Mary Baker Glover for a spinal problem that had failed to respond to orthodox medical care. He professed that conventional medicine was useless, that disease itself was “error,” and that only health was “truth.” He claimed that diagnosis and cure resulted from the individual’s faith in him. Quimby would place his hands on a sick patient’s head and abdomen and encourage supposed magnetic healing forces to flow through them. In about 1850, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Maine used Anton Mesmer’s ideas of animal magnetism to develop his own healing approach.
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