" The Practice Of Auto-Suggestion...To All In Conflict With Their Own Imperfections"

In the course of daily visits extending over some weeks, by attending my consultations, and by private conversations with myself, he obtained a full mastery of the method, and we threshed out a good deal of the theory on which it rests.

The results of this study are contained in the following pages. Mr. Brooks has skilfully seized on the essentials and put them forward in a manner that seems to me both simple and clear.

The instructions given are amply sufficient to enable anyone to practise autosuggestion for him or herself, without seeking the help of any other person.

It is a method which everyone should followthe sick to obtain healing, the healthy to prevent the coming of disease in the future.

By its practice we can insure for ourselves, all our lives long, an excellent state of health, both of the mind and the body. E. COUE. NANCY.

CHAPTER I

THE CLINIC OF EMILE COUE

THE clinic of Emile Coue, where Induced Autosuggestion is applied to the treatment of disease, is situated in a pleasant garden attached to his house at the quiet end of the rue Jeanne d'Arc in Nancy.

It was here that I visited him in the early summer of 1921, and had the pleasure for the first time of witnessing one of his consultations.

We entered the garden from his house a little before nine o'clock. In one corner was a brick building of two stories, with its windows thrown wide to let in the air and sunshinethis was the clinic; a few yards away was a smaller one-storied construction which served as a waiting-room.

Under the plum and cherry trees, now laden with fruit, little groups of patients were sitting on the garden seats, chatting amicably together and enjoying the morning sunshine while others wandered in twos and threes among the flowers and strawberry beds.

The room reserved for the treatments was already crowded, but in spite of that eager newcomers constantly tried to gain entrance.