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 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES 
 
 
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 Sift U.C. Library
 
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 Dr. Neujk Craib-BkighuS.
 
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 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR" 
 
 Helen Craib-Beighle 
 
 AND THE 
 
 Magic + Powkr 
 
 ELECTRIC HAND 
 
 By J. J. OWEN 
 
 Late Kditor of the "Golden Gate," and Author of " Our 
 
 Sunday Talks," "Spiritual Fragments," 
 
 " Psychography," etc. 
 
 SAN KRANCISCO: 
 
 Tin; llKK.s-JriM> Co., 23 First STREET 
 
 1893
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1893, by 
 
 HELKN CRAIB-BKIGHLK, 
 
 In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, 1). C.
 
 TO! 
 
 TO THE LOVING BAND OF SPIRITS, 
 
 WHO HAVE EVER 
 
 PATIENTLY AND SUCCESSFULLY 
 
 AIDED 
 
 "THE LITTLE DOCTOR" IN HER GREAT WORK 
 
 OF ALLEVIATING HUMAN SUFFERING, 
 
 THIS VOLUME IS MOST AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 An "Irregular" Reply to a Meddlesome Society 62 
 
 A Woman's Opinion 44 
 
 Biographical Sketch 17 
 
 Conclusion 127 
 
 Dr. Beighle's Guides 117 
 
 From the Spirit World 115 
 
 Healing by Spirit or Electric Power 9 
 
 Interesting Incidents ... 122 
 
 Little Harry Brown 112 
 
 Poem, " Our Little Doctor " 133 
 
 Preface 7 
 
 Science Baffled 56 
 
 Some Approving Words 66 
 
 The " Little Doctor's " Klectric Hand 25
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 TT7HERE are many lives unwritten 
 whose histories would be helps 
 and guides to other lives. The truest 
 philanthropist and humanitarian is not 
 always the one who, dying, ieaves the 
 most money to found some great uni- 
 versity of learning, or whose deeds are 
 blazoned to the world as the works of 
 some great public benefactor, but rather 
 the one who does the most to alleviate 
 human suffering, and who gives of his 
 life to others in doing good. He who 
 carries the balm of sympathy to sorrow- 
 ing souls, who imparts health to the sick, 
 and ever blesses others with the electric 
 touch and breath of a gentle, loving 
 nature, whose daily life is a daily in- 
 spiration to other lives, is more worthy 
 of a monument to his memory than the
 
 8 PREFACE. 
 
 one whose wealth, acquired in the fierce 
 competition of the world, and often by 
 questionable means, when no longer 
 serviceable to its owner, and cannot be 
 taken with him into the Beyond, is left 
 to public charity. 
 
 To the " Little Doctor," as she is 
 familiarly known by her many friends, 
 or the woman with the electric hand, 
 Nellie Craib-Beighle, whose life and 
 works are a constant blessing to others, 
 we offer this humble tribute. Although 
 she is yet in the full vigor of her won- 
 derful powers, and in the flush and 
 flower of a perfectly-rounded woman- 
 hood, it is not too soon to erect a monu- 
 ment to commemorate her worth and 
 usefulness to the world. Therefore, to 
 her many friends, and the many yet to 
 be her friends, this volume is respect- 
 fully and kindly inscribed by 
 
 The Author.
 
 HEALING BY SPIRIT OR 
 ELECTRIC POWER. 
 
 YT7HE enlightened world has come to 
 accept the potency of a healing 
 power that in unnumbered instances has 
 wrought for suffering' mortality what no 
 medication of the apothecary's art was 
 able to accomplish a power inhering 
 in the human organism of certain gifted 
 persons, and supplied from that hidden 
 source of all life and health which can- 
 not be ignored in the marvelous 
 economy of life. This power has been 
 manifested in all ages and all conditions 
 of life. The gentle Teacher of Galilee 
 frequently practiced it, and with won- 
 derful effect. The blind were made to 
 see, the deaf to hear, and the supposed
 
 10 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 dead to arise and go their ways rejoicing. 
 And "greater things," He declared 
 should they, his followers, do, who kept 
 the faith, or, rather, who lived in har- 
 mony with the laws of their being. 
 
 Thus there have arisen at times, 
 along the line of human history, many 
 remarkable healers, endowed with won- 
 derful powers men and women who 
 have wrought miracles, or what seemed 
 so, to thousands of the lame, halt, and 
 variously afflicted who have thronged 
 to their presence, and many of whom 
 have left their crutches, canes, and 
 other appliances of affliction, and gone 
 forth healed. So generally is this 
 fact recognized that there is no city or 
 town, and scarcely a rural community 
 in the land where the magnetic or spirit 
 healer cannot be found not all alike
 
 HEALING BY SPIRIT POWER. 11 
 
 gifted and successful in every disease, 
 but all more or less potent in certain 
 cases or ailments. Regular physicians 
 have sought, in some States, to procure 
 legislation that would prevent these 
 gifted evangels of health from exercis- 
 ing their powers, as they found this 
 " irregular" way of restoring the sick to 
 health was making serious inroads upon 
 their revenues. Some of these >l regu- 
 lars " are so opposed to this unscientific 
 method of curing disease that it is 
 thought they would prefer that their 
 patients should die in the ''regular" 
 way than be restored to health by any 
 such questionable means questionable 
 only to the ignorant, or to those but 
 little skilled in the laws that govern the 
 complicated machinery of this temple 
 and tenement of the human soul.
 
 12 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 There are some physicians of the old 
 schools who possess largely of this heal- 
 ing power, and to this fact is mainly 
 due, unknown to themselves, any suc- 
 cess that may attend their practice. The 
 cool, magnetic hand upon the brow, the 
 soothing touch of the truly magnetic 
 physician is often more potent in assuag- 
 ing pain than all his drugs, and, indeed, 
 among the best and most skillful of the 
 regular physicians the curing of disease 
 by excessive medication is becoming 
 almost unknown. Pure air, change of 
 location, healthful exercise and surround- 
 ings, proper ford, etc., are the pallia- 
 tives mostly used now by the wise 
 physician. Dr. Astley Cooper, the 
 medical guide of the " Little Doctor," 
 Dr. Abernithy, Dr. Benjamin Rush, and 
 others of our most eminent physicians,
 
 HEALING BY SPIRIT POWER. 13 
 
 used less and less medicines as they grew 
 in wisdom and experience, and had less 
 and less confidence in the sanitary 
 operation of their drugs upon the 
 human system. 
 
 The world is beginning to learn that 
 there is a subtle something about a 
 human being, greater than the being's 
 self, that may be acted upon by spirit or 
 magnetic forces to its advantage. This 
 is the true mind cure. It will yet be 
 found in the higher unfoldment of the 
 race, a sovereign remedy for all the ills 
 that flesh is heir to. We are yet grop- 
 ing upon the shore of an unbounded 
 sea of knowledge, relating to the spirit- 
 ual and physical nature of man, whose 
 waters reach beyond the realm of time 
 and lave the feet of the eternal Spirit of 
 Nature.
 
 14 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 Man is subject to a higher power, 
 whether that power be his own spiritual 
 nature or the spirit outside and inde- 
 pendent of his own nature. One may 
 be something of a healer in his or her 
 own spirit powers; how much more so 
 when aided by other spirit forces in 
 touch and sympathy with his own. 
 
 Dr. Nellie Craib-Beighle, the subject 
 of this volume, is not only a powerful 
 healer in herself, but she is the willing 
 instrument of a band of spirit workers 
 who are able to work through her the 
 most astonishing results. She is also 
 endowed with a peculiar feature belong- 
 ing to no others of this class of healers 
 an electric right arm and hand with 
 which she performs all of her arduous 
 and magic work. This arm, from the 
 shoulder to the tips of her fingers,
 
 HEALING BY SPIRIT POWER. 15 
 
 seems to be charged with electricity. 
 The touch of her hand conveys to some 
 sensitive natures a powerful shock. It 
 is like a battery charged with what 
 Bulwer would call vril. The source of 
 this force seems to be inexhaustible. 
 She seemingly never tires. While 
 standing upon her feet from eight to ten 
 hours at a time she moves from one 
 patient to another, giving to each the 
 special treatment her guides prescribe 
 rubbing, pounding, electrifying, etc., 
 and all with that wonderful electric 
 hand. And when night comes she has, 
 perhaps, a number of patients to visit in 
 different parts of the city who are too 
 ill to go to her office, where she has 
 every convenience for a large number of 
 patients, and she must needs go to them. 
 At a late hour she returns to her home
 
 16 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 and the companionship of her faithful 
 guides, where she receives the baptism 
 of strength for another day's work. 
 And thus for many years, she has pur- 
 sued her work in the great City of San 
 Francisco, bringing health and happi- 
 ness to many a home.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 
 
 YT7HE history of our famous healers is 
 well worth preserving in the litera- 
 ture of the country. They are too often 
 neglected, or their deeds left to the 
 ephemeral record of the daily press. 
 
 Miss Helen Craib, or the " Little Doc- 
 tor," as she is now called, is the young- 
 est of seven sisters, all living. She 
 came of good, healthy ancestry. She 
 was born in Canada, in 185 1, of Scotch 
 parents. Her mother dying when she 
 was but two years of age, she was taken 
 and cared for by an elder sister, who, 
 five years later, when Nellie was seven 
 years of age, brought her to California. 
 She was tenderly reared and educated. 
 She was a bright, beautiful, and gentle 
 miss, apt in her school studies and music,
 
 18 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 and winning warm friends among all her 
 associates. 
 
 Her earlier years were marked by no 
 striking event except the occasional 
 foreshadowing of her spirit powers in 
 visions and inspirations. In times of 
 sorrow and trouble '' the sky would 
 open," as she thought and expressed it, 
 and she would catch a glimpse of her 
 mother and other spirit comforters, who 
 would bring peace to her mind. She 
 grew in wisdom and in the graces of a 
 refined and gentle womanhood until 
 she was eighteen years of age, when she 
 was engaged as a teacher in one of the 
 public schools of Sacramento County, 
 where she taught with marked success. 
 She has a peculiar winning and loving 
 way with children. It was impossible 
 for a pupil not to love her.
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 19 
 
 Our " Little Doctor " was educated in 
 the iron-clad creed of the Presbyterian 
 Church, and, being naturally of a religious 
 nature, she clung to that faith as to the 
 ark of safety. She entertained strong 
 prejudices against Spiritualism, not 
 knowing anything, of course, of its phe- 
 nomena or its merits as a system of 
 religious belief. She believed it all to 
 be the tricks of the juggler, or a device 
 of Satan to lure souls to destruction ! 
 
 In 187 1, Miss Craib was united in 
 marriage with George W. Beighle, who 
 was employed in a commercial house in 
 San Francisco. Soon thereafter they 
 made their residence in San Francisco, 
 where they have resided almost contin- 
 uously ever since. Her husband was 
 greatly opposed to Spiritualism, and 
 this operated to intensify her own oppo-
 
 20 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 siticn. At the same time there was 
 ever a strong desire, which she could 
 not repress nor understand, to investi- 
 gate spiritual phenomena. This strug- 
 gle became at times, in her own mind, 
 really painful, unfitting her for her 
 domestic duties. But her obedience to 
 her early education and to the require- 
 ments of the church to which she be- 
 longed, prevailed over the promptings 
 of the invisibles, who had evidently 
 intended her for the work in which she 
 afterwards became so proficient. 
 
 While residing in Oakland in the 
 year 1879, Mrs. Beighle was urgently 
 invited to attend a spiritual seance at 
 the residence of a neighbor and join a 
 circle for mediumistic development. 
 This was the trying ordeal to her of 
 blind obedience to her religious training,
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 21 
 
 and that prompting from within her own 
 spirit to assert her independence of an 
 ecclesiastical authority founded upon 
 ignorance of the spiritual laws of her 
 own being. She at first sought for some 
 reasonable excuse for refusing the invi- 
 tation, but the words refused to take 
 shape upon her tongue. A power and 
 influence over her, hitherto unknown to 
 her, prompted her to assent, and she 
 consented to join the circle. 
 
 There were but three persons present 
 at that first sitting; and indeed it was a 
 memorable occasion, as it changed the 
 whole current of her thoughts, and was 
 eventually to lead up to a life-work, the 
 nature of which she then but little 
 dreamed, and which was to be the means 
 of assuaging the ills of the sick and 
 afflicted in a most wonderful manner,
 
 22 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 Mrs. Beighle sat in a quiet and passive 
 manner for a few minutes, when her 
 right hand began to vibrate with pain- 
 ful rapidity, an indication that some 
 spirit was endeavoring to obtain control 
 of her hand and arm for the purpose of 
 writing. A lady present placed paper 
 and pencil within reach of the disturbed 
 member, when she immediately wrote in 
 quite legible characters several com- 
 munications purporting to come from 
 her spirit mother, who had passed on to 
 her spirit home in the early infancy of 
 the daughter. These messages revealed 
 the personality of the mother in a most 
 conclusive manner. They foretold many 
 things that would happen in the early 
 future, one of which was that she and 
 her family, including her husband and 
 two beautiful young daughters, would
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 23 
 
 remove within two months to San Fran- 
 cisco. As they owned their home in 
 Oakland, and had no occasion to move, 
 they could not understand how the pre- 
 diction could be realized. But events 
 shaped favorably, and within the time 
 mentioned they became residents of San 
 Francisco. Another prediction was that 
 within ten days she would be in pos- 
 session of the gift of clairvoyance, 
 which also proved true, and which gift 
 she has been able, to exercise with great 
 clearness and precision ever since. We 
 may also state here that the spirit 
 mother who manifested her presence in 
 so surprising a manner at her first sit- 
 ting, has ever attended her since and 
 been her constant companion and assist 
 ant in all her work of healing. 
 
 Other mediumistic eifts came to
 
 24 " OUR [LITTLE [DOCTOR." 
 
 Mrs. Beighle in quick succession, all of 
 which were no doubt intended to be in- 
 cident to the great work for which her 
 spirit guides were fitting her. The 
 history of her further development we 
 shall speak of in connection with her 
 crowning gift of the spirit known as the 
 electric hand.
 
 THE " LITTLE DOCTOR'S " 
 ELECTRIC HAND. 
 
 U7ROM thenceforward the develop- 
 ment of this wonderful healer was 
 most rapid. Following the gift of clair- 
 voyance came that of trance mediumship, 
 which brought her many painful experi- 
 ences. A spirit representing himself to 
 be Thomas Starr King, and who soon 
 impressed his well-known and beautiful 
 personality upon her in a most positive 
 and convincing manner, worked upon 
 her for some time with the view to fit- 
 ting her for the public rostrum. She 
 was thrown into frequent conditions of 
 trance closely resembling death, in 
 which she remained so long that her 
 friends became seriously alarmed, and
 
 26 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 were obliged to resort to stimulants and 
 severe friction to restore her. Not- 
 withstanding these painful experiences 
 she made considerable progress in 
 trance speaking, giving lengthy and 
 able lectures on metaphysical and other 
 subjects, much after the style of her 
 distinguished control when in the form, 
 together with psychometric delineations 
 of character. But this form of develop- 
 ment being distasteful to her, she im- 
 plored her spirit guides to relieve her of 
 its painful and oppressive burdens. 
 Had she continued in this line of un- 
 foldment a while longer, we doubt not 
 its unpleasant features would have dis- 
 appeared, and one of the grandest of plat- 
 form speakers would have been added 
 to our noble list of speakers. The 
 gifted spirit of the great pulpit orator
 
 THE ELECTRIC HAND. 27 
 
 has been her companion and friend 
 through all the years of her marvelous 
 work. 
 
 Then followed some two years of toil 
 in various phases of mediumship. Her 
 ever faithful guides assured her that her 
 work had not been in vain, and that 
 they were preparing her for a grander 
 field of labor than she had ever yet 
 dreamed of. She next sought for the 
 gift of independent slate-writing. Her 
 development of the power of clair- 
 audience came to her unexpectedly some 
 time afterward, showing that her work 
 in that direction had not been in vain. 
 
 She had now firmly resolved to sit for 
 the phase of independent writing, a gift 
 then very rare among psychics. She 
 visited Mrs. Francis, through whom her 
 guides gave her explicit instructions as
 
 28 "OUR LITTIvE DOCTOR." 
 
 to the time and manner of sitting. She 
 devoted one hour daily for an entire 
 year to this phase of development. At 
 times she was discouraged to the point 
 of despair at the small progress she 
 seemed to make; but she was ever en- 
 couraged and cheered onward by her 
 faithful spirit guides, who were evidently 
 preparing her all this time for another 
 field of work which they thought best to 
 withhold from her consciousness until 
 the proper time came for its revealment. 
 Some time in the fall of 1879 she dis- 
 covered that she possessed the gift of 
 healing, and it came to her with the 
 revelation that a most singular power 
 had taken possession of her right arm. 
 A lady friend had called upon her to 
 obtain the assistance of her guides in 
 some business matters, when the me-
 
 THE ELECTRIC HAND. 29 
 
 dium, moved by spirit influence, was 
 prompted to examine the ailments of 
 which she complained. The lady pro- 
 nounced her diagnosis correct in every 
 respect. Immediately thereafter Mrs. 
 Beighle was impressed to place her 
 right hand (in which she for the first 
 time experienced a strange prickly sen- 
 sation) upon the head of the lady, who 
 was startled by experiencing severe 
 shocks as from an electric battery. At 
 the same time she began chattering in 
 an unknown tongue, supposed to be 
 Egyptian. 
 
 On account of the religious preju- 
 dices of her husband and friends against 
 everything that bore the semblance of 
 Spiritualism, Mrs. Beighle kept the 
 revelation of her new gift to herself for 
 awhile. A short time thereafter she
 
 30 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 treated her brother's wife, who had been 
 given up by the regular physicians as 
 hopelessly incurable with a supposed can- 
 cer. Her new Egyptian guide impressed 
 her to manipulate the afflicted part with 
 her electric hand, which she did, and 
 after five treatments the suffering lady 
 was fully restored to health. This 
 triumph was not only an amazing surprise 
 to the attending physician and the friends 
 of the patient, but also astonished the 
 11 Little Doctor " greatly. 
 
 Here was the field, the medium now 
 felt, in which she was to work, and for 
 which all her previous development had 
 been preparatory. Her wonderful 
 electric hand was to her a constant 
 source of astonishment and delight. 
 Its healing power had increased, and 
 she was inspired with confidence to go
 
 THE ELECTRIC HAND. 31 
 
 forward in her work. Possessing a re- 
 markably sympathetic and loving 
 nature, she seemed better adapted to 
 this work than to any other, as the alle- 
 viation of human suffering so fully ac- 
 corded with her gentle and sensitive 
 nature. Besides, it seemed to accord 
 more fully with the life and work of the 
 great Teacher, towards whom her re- 
 ligious nature turned, He who went 
 about healing the sick and doing good. 
 Her aim in life was to do good, and 
 how could she better live the life of Him 
 she sought to imitate than by allaying 
 human suffering, and at the same time 
 teaching those spiritual truths calculated 
 to make the world better ? The desire 
 to help somebody was ever uppermost 
 in her mind. Her charities kept her 
 poor. Money was nothing to her save
 
 32 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 as an instrument for the relief of others 
 in deeper poverty. 
 
 The Doctor's chief medical adviser 
 and guide is an English physician 
 known as Sir Astley Cooper. He was 
 an eminent physician and surgeon of 
 London, England, who, having been 
 knighted, afterward bore the title given 
 him. He is a noble, gentle soul, and 
 is ever present as the leader of a band 
 of spirit physicians, to give a correct 
 diagnosis of all cases submitted to her. 
 Her diagnosis of disease through this 
 grand medical expert is most complete. 
 He never makes a mistake, and com- 
 municates his conclusions to her clair- 
 audient ear as clearly as though he were 
 still on the mortal plane. It is thus she 
 holds communion with all of her guides 
 they speak to her in spirit and her
 
 Spirit Sir Astlky Coopkr. 
 
 Ski-: Pack 117.
 
 THE ELECTRIC HAND. 33 
 
 own spirit hears and understands. Her 
 electric hand goes directly to the seat of 
 the disease. 
 
 She was now fully prepared, after 
 long trials and many discouragements, to 
 enter upon her life-work of healing the 
 sick; but her husband still objected to 
 her becoming a public healer. This threw 
 a cloud of disappointment over her 
 spirit. But her angel guides, who had 
 brought her thus far on her way to a 
 life of great usefulness, were not to be 
 baffled by a husband's objections. They 
 resolved to remove these objections, 
 which they did in the following manner: 
 A bookkeeper in the store in which her 
 husband was employed as a salesman, 
 in the early part of 1883, was sorely 
 afflicted with a continuous and severe 
 throbbing pain in his head, the cause ol
 
 34 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 which those gentlemen of the medical 
 profession having cognizance of the 
 case were unable to aoree. After com- 
 municating to her the foregoing facts, 
 her husband promised to yield his con- 
 sent for her to practice healing by spirit 
 power as a profession, if she would 
 locate the seat of the trouble and restore 
 his friend to health. A diagnosis in- 
 dicated the kidneys as the seat of the 
 disease which caused the. pain in his 
 head 3 and after three weeks treatment 
 with her magic hand the invalid friend 
 of her husband was restored to perfect 
 health. 
 
 Though a firm believer in the princi- 
 ples and philosophy of Spiritualism, our 
 " Little Doctor," out of deference to 
 the wishes and advice of her religious 
 friends, did not deem it best to blazen
 
 THE ELECTRIC HAND. 35 
 
 that fact to the world in connection 
 with her work, as it might repel many 
 good people who needed her services. 
 And yet she was ever ready to impart 
 to all seekers after truth, and all who 
 were ready for the light of the new 
 faith, the knowledge of the new gospel 
 which had wrought such wonderful 
 things in her own life. She did not 
 even avail herself of the power of the 
 press to herald the wonders of her 
 magic hand to the world. She had lit- 
 tle need, in fact, to resort to that means 
 to fill the measure of her time for work, 
 as one cure followed another in such 
 rapid succession, that she soon had all 
 she could possibly do, and her fame 
 rapidly spread throughout the city and 
 coast. Invitations poured in from 
 other parts for her to visit other locali-
 
 36 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 ties, but having all the patients she 
 could possibly attend to at home, she 
 could see no need for going abroad. 
 
 Near the close of the year 1883, so 
 great was the demand upon her powers 
 that her control, after due notice of his 
 intentions, rendered her electric hand 
 powerless for healing for the period of 
 three months, for the purpose of enab- 
 ling her to take a much-needed rest. 
 But she had no sooner resumed work in 
 the spring of '84, with her strength and 
 healing powers restored, than patients 
 came to her in such numbers that she 
 was liable to be soon again overworked. 
 She changed her location from the 
 Baldwin Hotel to a more retired part of 
 the city, to avoid the people, but pa- 
 tients followed her in great numbers, 
 and in September, 1885, her faithful
 
 THE ELECTRIC HAND. 37 
 
 spirit control, Dr. Cooper, informed her 
 that she must prepare to take another 
 rest, and make engagements with that 
 object in view. He said that on the 
 last day of December of that year, at 
 twelve o'clock noon, the power to heal 
 would again be taken from her, and 
 would not be restored until the same 
 hour on the twenty-second day of March 
 following, all of which occurred pre- 
 cisely as predicted. At the hour named 
 for the return of her powers, she found 
 her electric hand and arm charged with 
 that mysterious force that had already 
 wrought so much good, and she was 
 again ready for her angel ministrations. 
 Our " Little Doctor " knows the value 
 of cheerful surroundings and conversa- 
 tion. When treating the sick her spirits 
 seem to rise with the occasion. She is
 
 38 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 a brilliant conversationalist, witty, jovial, 
 and full of quaint sayings. The invalid 
 forgets his pain in her presence, and ere 
 he is aware the magic hand has done its 
 work, and he goes away with praises on 
 his tongue for the evangel of health and 
 mercy who has relieved him of his 
 pains. 
 
 All of the Doctor's healing powers 
 appear to lie in her electric hand and 
 forearm, extending a few inches above 
 the elbow. Every patient experiences a 
 peculiar sensation upon the application 
 of her electric hand, according to his or 
 her respective conditions and needs. 
 The late Judge John A. Collins, a noble 
 philanthropist and thinker, who made 
 the '' Little Doctor's" healing power a 
 careful study, classified these sensations 
 as follows:
 
 THE ELECTRIC HAND. 39 
 
 Soft, pleasant, and soothing. 
 
 2. Dry, rough, and husky. 
 
 3. Damp and chilly. 
 
 4. Dry, heating, and prickling. 
 
 5. Damp, with penetrating heat. 
 
 6. Scratching and irritating sensa- 
 tions like the operation of a fine-toothed 
 curry-comb. 
 
 7. Sticky, mucilaginous matter with 
 an irritating sensation, exhaling an odor 
 sometimes pleasant and at others the 
 very opposite. 
 
 8. Raising blisters from an eighth of 
 an inch to three inches in diameter. 
 
 9. Producing reddish lines along the 
 spine and scarlet spots over the deranged 
 parts, and other phenomena too numer- 
 ous and mixed to be easily particularized. 
 
 The " Little Doctor " carefully avoids 
 any publicity of the cases submitted to 
 her for treatment, lest any such should 
 be embarrassed or annoyed by the sup-
 
 40 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 position of their friends that they were 
 giving endorsement- to the somewhat 
 unpopular vagaries of Spiritualism. She 
 is a thorough Spiritualist, but she does 
 not care to compel any unwilling en- 
 dorsement of her belief. She treats all 
 alike, and is entirely indifferent, as their 
 healer, to their religious or non-religious 
 opinions. Jews or Gentiles, Material- 
 ists or Spiritualists, Christians or 
 heathens, it is all the same to her. 
 Among her patients and she has cured 
 thousands may be found not only the 
 skilled and common toilers of the 
 country, but also merchants, importers, 
 bankers, manufacturers, editors, artists, 
 lawyers, teachers, clergymen, physicians, 
 judges, and representatives of about 
 every department of business and society, 
 not omitting millionaires, from almost
 
 THE ELECTRIC HAND. 41 
 
 every county in California, and various 
 towns and cities of the States and Terri- 
 tories of the Pacific Coast, to which 
 number may be added many from the 
 Atlantic States. 
 
 And her magic hand still maintains its 
 cunning in presence of disease, and the 
 ailments "that flesh is heir to" shrink 
 from its electric touch as the mists and 
 fogs of the darkness melt away and dis- 
 appear before the healthful rays of the 
 morning sun. 
 
 There is one fact concerning her 
 treatment of patients that we have not 
 yet mentioned. It is that she is sur- 
 rounded, in critical cases, with a large 
 band of spirits, arrayed in white robes, 
 and with turbans upon their heads. They 
 are of dark features, like Egyptians, of 
 which race they probably are. They
 
 42 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 are all powerful healers, and assist in 
 that marvelous spirit chemistry of dis- 
 tilling from the elements such medicines 
 as she may require, which medicines 
 are passed through the electric hand of 
 the lt Little Doctor " to the patient and 
 to the seat of the disease. This is a 
 most singular feature of her method of 
 treatment. These medicines are in the 
 form of ointments or oils, some of which 
 emit a strong pungent odor. This may 
 seem incredible to those not familiar 
 with the wonderful possibilities of the 
 spirit; but to hundreds of her patients 
 who have felt the manipulations of that 
 electric hand it is an astonishing fact. 
 
 Intelligent, witty, and sprightly, gen- 
 erous and joyous, the " Little Doctor" 
 is a splendid entertainer. She is sympa- 
 thetic and tender, she has friends of a)l
 
 THE ELECTRIC HAND. 4$ 
 
 who know her never an enemy. She 
 is a woman most richly endowed with 
 all the graces of her sex. And when 
 we add the divine gift of healing from 
 her angel guides, which she possesses to 
 such a marvelous degree, we may well 
 point to her as "one among many" 
 whom it were a delight to know and 
 honor.
 
 A WOMAN'S OPINION. 
 
 TT7HE following article, entitled " Dr. 
 Helen Craib-Beighle," written for 
 the Golden Gate, in 1886, by Mrs. 
 Mattie P. Owen, wife of the author, 
 although touching upon some ground 
 already traversed, is well worthy a place 
 in this volume : 
 
 The tender cords of sympathy and 
 admiration are always aroused when we 
 see any noble woman struggling on this 
 human sea of contending elements to 
 carve out an honored destiny. There 
 are so many obstacles which rise, mount- 
 ain high, before the finely attuned and 
 complex organism of woman, when she 
 is obliged to come forth from the shelter 
 of a quiet and retired home life to battle 
 with a not too generous world. We have 
 many instances, however, in this and all
 
 A WOMAN'S OPINION. 45 
 
 ages, of woman's adequacy for every 
 trial, when the supreme moment comes; 
 such a one is the brave little heroine of 
 this sketch. 
 
 Mrs. Beighle is a native of Canada, 
 but was only eight years old when she 
 removed to San Francisco with an 
 elder sister, having lost her mother at 
 the early age of two years. In the 
 free, pure air of California she blos- 
 somed into girlhood and to womanhood. 
 The old superstitious idea that the 
 seventh daughter was the specially 
 favored of the gods seems to have been 
 a veritable truth in this instance, as little 
 "Helen" was the seventh daughter in 
 the Craib home. 
 
 The Craib family from which Mrs. 
 Beighle is a descendant was of Scotch 
 descent, and belonged to the old Scotch 
 Covenanters, in which faith she was 
 reared and trained. Although a reli- 
 gion too cold and rigid to find lodg-
 
 46 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 ment in the warm young heart of 
 " Helen," who from the early years of 
 childhood seemed to have a life some- 
 thing apart from her every-day sur- 
 roundings, still she adhered to the doc- 
 trine to which she had been taught from 
 youth. She often saw wondrous visions 
 and had strange experiences, which 
 many times she kept closely locked in 
 her own breast; and, later on, these 
 visions became more real she would 
 describe scenes and events at a distance 
 with marvelous accuracy. On one occa- 
 sion she saw her sister's home many 
 miles distant, and read, as if on the dial 
 of time, circumstances of great import 
 months before their occurrence. 
 
 Before marriage Miss Craib was a 
 most successful teacher in the public 
 schools of Sacramento County, where 
 she was engaged in the profession of 
 which she was an honored member up 
 to the year 1871, when she was united
 
 A WOMAN'S OPINION. 47 
 
 in marriage with Mr. George W. 
 Beighle. From that time to the present 
 Mr. and Mrs. Beighle have resided in 
 San Francisco or adjoining cities. Two 
 beautiful, intelligent girls was the gift to 
 this union; Alice, the elder, is now 
 fifteen, and Edna thirteen, both true, 
 devoted daughters to their fond mother, 
 who, like most of parents, live life over 
 again in their children. Alice resides 
 with her mother and is a great assistance 
 to her in her public work. The younger 
 attends one of our leading young ladies' 
 seminaries in Oakland, the '' Athens " 
 of the Pacific Coast. [We may add 
 that about two years ago the eldest 
 daughter, Alice, was happily married 
 and resides with her husband in Oak- 
 land, Cal., and that Edna has developed 
 into a tall, graceful, and beautiful young 
 lady, and is her mother's chief com- 
 panion and assistant. The Author.] 
 A few years ago Mrs. Beighle was
 
 48 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 made the astonished recipient of a mar- 
 velous and unexpected power; she found 
 herself the possessor of a new faculty 
 found that she possessed the capabilities 
 of diagnosing disease by the simple 
 touch of her hand. Her right hand had 
 been unexplainably converted, invisibly 
 to human eyes, into an electrical mechan- 
 ism through which the most subtle cur- 
 rents passed. These currents are as 
 much finer than those produced by 
 the ordinary electrical battery as the 
 human mind can conceive. They are 
 also varied in grade and quality. Some- 
 times the force is such that would shock 
 and awaken a slumbering nerve into 
 action which had been inactive for years; 
 again it penetrates and interpenetrates 
 the entire being as gently as an angel- 
 balm fresh from the Master's hand. 
 
 Mrs. Beighle realized to the fullest 
 degree the importance of this strange 
 visitation, wherein she was to become a
 
 A WOMAN'S OPINION. 49 
 
 ministering angel to the sick and suffer- 
 ing of earth. Can we wonder that she, 
 with all her preconceived ideas, her 
 earlv education and associations, should 
 shrink from the acceptance of this work, 
 opening up new avenues of thought and 
 action ? It requires courage and a 
 mighty conviction of truth to stand up 
 for principle's sake, when that conviction 
 demands the alliance to an unpopular 
 cause a cause which her early educa- 
 tion had prejudiced her against. From 
 the first hour that she resolved to follow 
 the guidance of this benign power, she 
 has never once faltered, although she 
 often found her strength severely tested. 
 She met with scorn from many of her 
 old friends, including even those bound 
 by ties of kindred; but the grand '" Little 
 Doctor " remained firm to her first de- 
 termination amidst all opposition. 
 
 It is difficult to comprehend that the 
 human mind is fettered to such an ex-
 
 50 "OUR LITTI/E DOCTOR." 
 
 tent by the iron band of ignorance, in 
 this enlightened age of progress, as to 
 fear a gift of such heavenly origin 
 fear and condemn that which gives 
 back fast -fading life, restores to vigor of 
 health the faint and sick-worn traveler, 
 assuages physical torture and suffering 
 in all forms. 
 
 The Doctor was true to every instinct 
 of her noble nature, and went straight 
 forward, " doing whatever the hand 
 found to do;" an effort which was soon 
 crowned with a glorious success. Hun- 
 dreds came for counsel and treatment. 
 Her practice soon equaled that of any 
 physician in the city. Her office duties 
 are now of such an extensive character 
 as to make it impracticable for her to go 
 out to visit the sick, only in exceptional 
 cases. Her patients include the first 
 families of this city, and from all parts 
 of the State, in wealth, culture and re- 
 finement; and her amiability and noble-
 
 A WOMAN'S OPINION. 51 
 
 ness of mind have endeared her to them 
 by a thousand ties. 
 
 Mr. Beighle was very reluctant to 
 have his wife become a professional 
 healer, but having a near friend sorely 
 afflicted, a case which the learned pro- 
 fession failed to master or understand, 
 he promised his wife that if she would 
 locate the seat of trouble, and restore to 
 health his suffering friend, he would 
 withdraw his objections to her practic- 
 ing for the public. It is needless to say 
 that within three weeks time his friend 
 was completely restored to health. 
 
 It may interest our readers to know 
 something of how the hand is used 
 which works such wonders. The right 
 hand and arm, to midway between the 
 elbow and shoulder, is a veritable battery, 
 wherein is concentrated an odic force 
 of great curative power. It is entirely 
 different from what is usually termed 
 magnetic healing, in this particular, that
 
 52 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 her physical magnetism does not enter 
 into the treatments. It is a foreign force 
 from any thing in her own organism. 
 It is more properly called "spirit heal- 
 ing," what it really is; the force of spirit 
 acting through the hand and arm. Those 
 understanding the spiritual philosophy 
 recognize that behind this force stand 
 the skilled and unseen operators; a fact 
 which no one can doubt, who once ex- 
 periences the peculiar sensations accom- 
 panying the magical touch of those 
 fingers. 
 
 The Doctor has no control whatever 
 over the power, and twice since she pos- 
 sessed it the power has been with- 
 drawn. On the first occasion it was 
 suddenly snatched away, and Mrs. 
 Beighle was greatly exercised there- 
 from. Her fears were allayed, however, 
 by a familiar voice, which assured her 
 that in due time it would be returned to 
 her, with renewed strength; and so it
 
 A WOMAN'S OPINION. 53 
 
 was in three months. The second time 
 she knew when her "sweet employ- 
 ment " would be gone, to the very hour 
 and moment, for five months before it 
 occurred, and when it would return. 
 
 We have never known the Doctor to 
 fail in correctly diagnosing a case, of the 
 hundreds we have known who have 
 sought her advice. In this particular 
 she stands pre-eminent. Without ask- 
 ing a question, she will minutely de- 
 scribe your case, trace back twenty-five 
 and thirty years to find the cause, and 
 tell you all about it. She rarely prom- 
 ises to cure wherein she fails; and we 
 believe these exceptions are largely 
 accounted for in the failure of the 
 patient to implicitly follow her direc- 
 tions. We could give numerous in- 
 stances of marvelous cures, which might 
 appear to the reader more like a fable 
 than a reality; but we simply know that 
 every week, right in this city, such cures
 
 54 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 are being performed through the agency 
 of Dr. Beighle. We could give a num- 
 ber of interesting cases, but for the fact 
 that the persons who are benefited 
 would naturally hesitate to have their 
 names given to the public. 
 
 Amoncr the most notable cures of 
 which we have known the Doctor to 
 effect, have been cases of paralysis and 
 general nervous affections. 
 
 Some of her paralytic subjects had 
 been sufferers for years. And we know 
 a number of instances that within a few 
 weeks were able to use the affected 
 limbs with perfect ease. One very re- 
 markable case came under our observa- 
 tion, that of a little child, about sixteen 
 months old, who had lain in spasms, or 
 rather from one spasm into another, for 
 over six hours, when Doctor Beighle was 
 called. From the instant she placed 
 her hand on its poor tortured body, it 
 became easy, and the spasms did not re-
 
 A WOMAN'S OPINION. 55 
 
 occur. In a short time the little sufferer 
 was capable of recognizing its grateful 
 and delighted parents. 
 
 The angels could not have found a 
 more faithful servant than this brave 
 little lady; nor could she ask gifts more 
 divine.
 
 SCIENCE BAFFLED. 
 
 7TNDER the double heading, "Dr. 
 Nellie Beighle; Magnetic Power 
 that Baffles the Entire Scientific World," 
 one of the leading secular papers of San 
 Francisco, the San Francisco Call, not 
 long ago, contained the following article: 
 
 Through the medium of newspapers 
 and the ordinary channels of advertis- 
 ing Dr. Nellie Beighle is never heard of. 
 
 She is, it seems, quite too reserved to 
 meet the public in this way, and feels 
 that it would be profaning her sacred 
 art. 
 
 Yet Room 37 of the Flood Building 
 is daily crowded with patients who seek 
 the benefits of her healing art. [The 
 " Little Doctor " has since removed to the 
 new Donahue Building, corner of Taylor 
 and Market Streets, where she has ten
 
 SCIENCE BAFFLED. 57 
 
 treating-rooms, and is much better situ- 
 ated to practice her healing gift than she 
 has ever been before. The Author.] 
 
 She is consequently known far and 
 wide, her reputation having already ex- 
 tended to Europe, where solicitous 
 friends have implored her to go for 
 years, but she persistently refuses, stat- 
 ing that she prefers to heal her own 
 people rather than to go into foreign 
 lands. 
 
 Although possessed of a magnetic 
 arm, which is the source of her power, 
 she rejects the appellation of magnetic 
 healer from the simple fact that the 
 term is too widely known as being ap- 
 plied to people who are capable of 
 sleight-of-hand performances for the 
 purpose of producing illusions and fraud. 
 
 On entering the spacious apartments 
 of Mrs. Dr. Beighle one is struck by 
 the splendid appearance of the room. 
 It is as gorgeous as the waiting-room of
 
 58 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 a Turkish bathing establishment, and 
 in the same manner surrounded by small 
 rooms for-the treatment of patients. 
 
 Miracles have been performed by her 
 which she and those who have received 
 the great benefits alone know of. Some 
 of the most prominent people of the 
 city have been actually snatched from 
 the grave. 
 
 While she does not object to speaking 
 of some of her most remarkable cures, 
 she objects to the publication of their 
 names without their personal consent. 
 
 The history of her case is recorded in 
 several scientific works, because it is the 
 only known case of the kind. 
 
 The lady, as she says, has been ac- 
 cused of fraud, which caused her intense 
 mental anguish. So much so, in fact, 
 that she not long since submitted to an 
 examination by a committee of ladies. 
 They returned a verdict to the effect 
 that Mrs. Beighle possessed all the
 
 SCIENCE BAFFLED. 59 
 
 powers that were claimed for her by her 
 friends. 
 
 Her right forearm, including about 
 three inches of the upper arm. is thor- 
 oughly magnetic. 
 
 By placing her hand on any part of 
 the body of another the shock of elec- 
 tricity is strongly apparent. Forty 
 patients a day can be treated by her and 
 twelve cases examined. The power 
 which this lady exhibits for diagnosing 
 cases may well be ranked as the sixth 
 sense. She seems to be a perfect foun- 
 tain of perennial health, and is probably 
 the most gifted healer in the world. 
 
 To a strong domestic nature she adds 
 a love of art and music, her fine muscu- 
 lar endowment giving this capacity. 
 
 She was born in Canada near the city 
 of Montreal, and came to California 
 when she was but eight years of age. 
 
 Somewhat over ten years ago she 
 came into possession of this wonderful
 
 60 "OUR UTTIvE DOCTOR." 
 
 power. A lady friend visited her who 
 was suffering from disease. 
 
 Mrs. Beighle felt an irresistible im- 
 pulse to place her hand upon her. She 
 did so, and in a short time the effect was 
 startling. After that the power came 
 stronger through the efficacy of prayer, 
 as she believes. Later on she was com- 
 pelled to treat hundreds who flocked to 
 her side. 
 
 Spiritualism in its purity is her avowed 
 religion, though she is not a spiritual 
 preacher. 
 
 In her diagnoses she depends on a 
 higher power to tell her of the seat of 
 the disease of her patient. Then, if it 
 is within her power, she treats the sub- 
 ject and always successfully. 
 
 Having been born of Scotch parents, 
 the woman is strong, fresh and vigor- 
 ous, with never-failing health. 
 
 The electricity in her arm, which is 
 bared while treating patients, is a puzzle
 
 SCIENCE BAFFLED. 61 
 
 to electricians. The moment she makes 
 a circuit by touching another person 
 while one is holding her hand, the 
 battery, as it were, stops. This elec- 
 tricity will penetrate glass and be con- 
 ducted by hair.
 
 AN "IRREGULAR" REPLY TO 
 A MEDDLESOME SOCIETY. 
 
 TN the fall of 1888 the "Little Doc- 
 tor's " practice being very great, and 
 the fame of her cures having aroused 
 the envy and jealousy of the Old School 
 practitioners, they sought to drive her 
 from the field by intimations of prosecu- 
 tion for "illegal" practice. The first at- 
 tempt was the last, and there is but little 
 probability that it will ever be repeated. 
 The following pertinent correspondence 
 requires no further explanation: 
 
 Office of the Board of Examiners \ 
 Of the Medical Soc'y of California. J 
 San Francisco, November 1, 1888. 
 Mrs. Dr. N. Beighle 
 
 Dear Madam: We have been in- 
 formed that there is a Dr. Beighle prac- 
 ticing medicine at Market and Jones
 
 A MEDDLESOME SOCIETY. 63 
 
 Streets, and on looking over the records 
 of this office, as well as the list of 
 licentiates of the Homeopathic and 
 Eclectic Boards of Examiners, we find 
 no one of that name recorded. 
 
 No doubt you are in ignorance that it 
 is against the law of the State to prac- 
 tice medicine without a license from one 
 of the above mentioned Boards. 
 
 We are about to publish a Register of 
 all the physicians practicing in this 
 State, and we desire your name to ap- 
 pear among those licensed. Unless we 
 are informed that you have been granted 
 a legal license, we shall be compelled to 
 include your name among the lt Illegals." 
 
 Hoping that we may hear from you 
 at your earliest convenience, as we shall 
 go to press with the Register by De- 
 cember i st, I am, 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 Chas. E. Blake, M. D., Sec'y. 
 
 431 Geary Street.
 
 64 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 ANSWER. 
 
 Chas. E. Blake, M. D., Sec'v, etc.: 
 In view of the lamentable loss of human 
 life, resulting from what is known as 
 " regular " practice, I am proud to be 
 recognized among what you term the 
 11 Illegals," where you will please place 
 me. 
 
 As a large share of my practice is 
 among those whom you, or your con- 
 freres, have declared to be incurable, 
 but who, in their ignorance, prefer to be 
 restored to health in an u illegal" and 
 non-professional way, rather than yield 
 up the ghost at your professional sug- 
 gestion, you will pardon me if I do not 
 choose to attach much importance to a 
 membership in your State Society. 
 
 My license comes from a higher 
 Board than any claimed by your Schools 
 of Medicine; my diploma consists of the 
 long list of names of those who have
 
 "The Littlk Doctor's" Spirit Mothkr. 
 
 Skk Page 119.

 
 A MEDDLESOME SOCIETY. 65 
 
 been healed through the divinely en- 
 dowed gifts I profess to practice. 
 
 As I use none of your methods, and 
 avoid every appearance of imitating the 
 same (from a sincere regard for the wel- 
 fare of my patients), I cannot understand 
 why your august body should trouble 
 itself about me. I am, 
 
 Very respectfully, etc., 
 
 Dr. Nellie Beighle.
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 
 
 *7yTE have heretofore stated that our 
 '' Little Doctor " never resorted 
 to testimonials, or the use of advertis- 
 ing, to secure business. Although 
 many times offered testimonials of 
 cures, frequently of a most astonishing 
 character, she would persistently decline 
 to accept them, as she would not use 
 them in extending a knowledge of her 
 healing power. She shrank from the 
 notoriety of the press, prompted by the 
 natural timidity of a modest woman, 
 and the further fact that her faithful 
 spirit guides seldom failed to provide 
 her with all the work she c^uld possibly 
 attend to. But in the fall of 1892, 
 having devoted some fourteen years 
 almost continuously to San Francisco,
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 67 
 
 she thought she would take a journey to 
 some of the principal Eastern cities, in 
 response to many earnest invitations to 
 do so; hence, she announced her inten- 
 tion to close up her business and take 
 her departure at an early day. It was 
 then that scores of letters poured in 
 upon her from devoted friends and 
 patients urging her to forego her pur- 
 pose and remain with them. At the 
 same time many, thinking that if she 
 went abroad some personal endorse- 
 ments of her healing gifts might be 
 advantageous in bringing her to an ac- 
 quaintanceship with the afflicted, and 
 as an introduction to the strangers 
 among whom she proposed to reside, 
 promptly furnished a number of letters, 
 which she hesitates even to permit us to 
 use in this work. Thinking that some
 
 68 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 of the writers, who are prominent in 
 social and business life, might not care 
 to allow their names to appear in print 
 as endorsing a spiritual healer, she 
 insists that we shall designate the letters 
 by numbers, with the assurance that if 
 any one who would like to question the 
 writers of these letters further will 
 address u Dr. Nellie C. Beighle, San 
 Francisco," she will obtain the consent 
 of the writers to furnish their address. 
 
 [number one.] 
 LA DOCTORCITA. 
 
 Soothing tired nerves, 
 
 Curing many ills, 
 Making lovely blisters, 
 
 But giving us no pills; 
 Though the blisters burn 
 
 When they can't be seen, 
 We love our lt Little Doctor," 
 
 She's our little Queen.
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 69 
 
 With her wondrous arm. 
 
 Gifted from on high, 
 She brings the angel forces 
 
 'Til we feel them nigh. 
 The colors of our flag, 
 
 Are in her face so sweet. 
 We love our " Little Doctor." 
 
 And by our love entreat 
 That she will not desert us, 
 
 But quickly come again 
 To those whose love is stronger 
 
 Than can be told by pen. 
 The blessings of the many, 
 
 Whom from pain and death she's 
 saved, 
 Will gleam along her pathway, 
 
 How we wish with gold 'twere 
 paved. 
 The voices of glad children, 
 
 From iron bands set free, 
 Call blessings on our Doctor, 
 
 And don't forget " I. C." 
 With love, 
 (Signed)
 
 70 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 [number TWO.] 
 San Francisco, August 12, 1892. 
 
 My good Dr. Beighle: As you are 
 about to leave the city, and the time of 
 your return is somewhat uncertain, per- 
 mit me to avail myself of the opportun- 
 ity to express to you my lasting 
 obligations for the wonderful cure your 
 magic power has effected, not only in 
 my own person, but also in that of my 
 daughter Alice. 
 
 Your hand has entirely removed from 
 my eyes the pains of seventeen years' 
 standing. At first I found that my re- 
 spite was only temporary, but nearly 
 two years have now passed since it left 
 me at your bidding, and the thought of 
 its returning has entirely passed out of 
 my mind. 
 
 My little Alice, who, as you will 
 
 remember, was afflicted with curvature 
 
 of the spine, is entirely recovered, a 
 
 act which certainly speaks marvelously
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 71 
 
 well for a treatment of but about six 
 weeks. 
 
 You will please pardon me for offer- 
 ing this testimonial of your successful 
 treatment. I am not in the habit of 
 committing such matters to writing, hav- 
 ing no desire for such notoriety, but a 
 sense of both gratitude and justice com- 
 pel me to say this much to you by way of 
 leave taking. 
 
 Yours with exceeding sincerity, 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number three.] 
 
 San Francisco, August 16, 1892. 
 Dr. Nellie Beighle 
 
 Dear Madam As you are about to 
 visit other lands and mingle with 
 strangers who have never known the 
 wonderful healing power you possess, 
 and with what accuracy you are capable 
 of diagnosing diseases, I deem it my
 
 72 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 duty to simply state what you have done 
 for me. 
 
 While serving with my regiment in 
 Virginia during the late war, I was dis- 
 charged therefrom a physical wreck, 
 suffering from a complication of dis- 
 orders, such as nervous prostration, 
 enlarged liver, and kidney trouble, 
 called one disease by one physician and 
 something else by another. For the 
 past twenty-eight years I have received 
 medical treatment without any perma- 
 nent favorable result, when last winter, 
 while assisting an invalid friend of mine 
 to and from your office, he persuaded 
 me to undergo an examination, and as 
 you readily located my disease, stating 
 you could remove the same without the 
 aid of medicine, I at once commenced 
 treatment with beneficial results from 
 the first, until now, I am pleased to state, 
 my health is entirely restored solely by 
 vour treatment.
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 73 
 
 Dr. Beighle, words are inadequate to 
 express the debt of gratitude I owe: you 
 for what you have done for me, and I 
 know the many patients who have 
 thronged your office will join me in say- 
 ing, " God speed you in your new field 
 of labor for the alleviation of suffering 
 humanity." 
 
 Very respectfully, etc. 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number four.] 
 
 San Francisco, August 24, 1892. 
 
 My Dear Doctor: Words are in- 
 adequate to express the abundance of 
 gratitude I feel towards you for the 
 benefits I have derived from your extra- 
 ordinary, and to me, wonderful, treat- 
 ments. 
 
 Whatever the " Power " is that you 
 possess, or whence it comes from can
 
 74 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 only be regarded as a blessing to the 
 suffering human race. 
 
 One year ago to-day, life was a drag 
 and a burden. The physicians that I 
 consulted advised change of climate, 
 etc.; exile from home and my profession 
 seemed necessary until I met you, and 
 without a drop of medicine and remain- 
 ing home working daily, under your 
 treatment, I consider my life has been 
 saved and my health almost restored 
 within six months, and to-day, pain is a 
 stranger to me. 
 
 I have without hesitation recommended 
 you to many of my friends, and those 
 that had the good sense to continue 
 their treatments have, like myself, been 
 benefited. 
 
 I wish you success, and trust the poor 
 sufferers who are yet to know you, will 
 realize the magic of your power. 
 
 Ever your humble servant, 
 (Signed)
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 75 
 
 [number FIVE.] 
 
 San Francisco, September 5, 1892. 
 Mrs. Dr. Beighle 
 
 Dear Madam: Being aware of your 
 intention to travel for rest from your 
 recent arduous practice, and that you 
 will in all probability be thrown among 
 strangers who will need your profes- 
 sional services, but in their ignorance 
 will be unable to appreciate what you 
 are able to do for them, I take the 
 liberty of giving you this testimonial, 
 which I trust will be the means in some 
 degree of helping you, as well as some 
 poor unfortunates who are suffering 
 some chronic ailment which has baffled 
 the most skillful physicians. 
 
 I have been engaged in the practice 
 of medicine and surgery for about 
 eighteen years, principally on this coast, 
 and being a sincere follower of Escula- 
 pius have been hard to convert to the
 
 76 ".OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 belief that there was any virtue in any 
 means outside of my profession, but I 
 can now conscientiously testify, after 
 having witnessed your treatment day 
 after day for several weeks, that you 
 have performed some of the most won- 
 derful cures. I presume that during my 
 visits to your office of about six weeks, 
 you must have treated over fifty pa- 
 tients, and in no instance have you 
 failed to Wonderfully relieve, and in 
 most instances cure them. 
 
 I was suffering from what is called a 
 stiff neck a few minutes manipulating 
 by you cured me entirely and I have not 
 suffered since. And notwithstanding 
 anything that may be said to the con- 
 trary, I know that you are gifted with 
 wonderful healing powers, and as I have 
 said, I am convinced of this fact from 
 personal experience and observation. 
 
 Hoping, my dear Doctor, that these 
 few lines will be the means of bringing
 
 vSOME APPROVING WORDS. 77 
 
 to you those who suffer if only one I 
 shall be more than repaid. 
 
 May God grant you health and a 
 pleasant voyage, and soon return to 
 your many friends and patients. 
 Yours very sincerely, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number six.] 
 
 Oakland, September 11, 1892. 
 
 My Dear Mrs. Beighle: When I 
 think of your leaving San Francisco I 
 wonder if there was ever any one 
 person who will be so widely missed as 
 you. None but those who know you and 
 what your work has been, can estimate 
 in the least your loss to the community. 
 
 You, more than any other person I 
 have ever known, have proved yourself 
 a true and faithful follower of Christ, in 
 that you have always been ready to 
 sacrifice your own comfort, and even to
 
 78 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 risk your health, to administer to the 
 health and comfort of those who were 
 suffering. I know how you have gone 
 out in the early morning hours and in the 
 late evening, through all sorts of weather, 
 to relieve those who were suffering, 
 receiving nothing in return often but 
 the consciousness of having helped the 
 needy and suffering. But a small part 
 of the good you have done has come 
 under my observation, and yet I have 
 known enough of your work and the 
 marvelous cures you have effected by 
 the magic touch of that little hand, to 
 recognize, as you do, that yours is a 
 divine gift of healing. 
 
 To know you has been to believe in 
 and to love you. Your truth, purity, 
 and devotion to right have ennobled 
 and made better all who have had the 
 privilege of coming under your care. 
 
 Yes, you will be missed greatly here, 
 but we must not be selfish. Go out
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDvS. 7 
 
 into the world, help others who have 
 not known you, show them what one 
 little woman under divine direction may 
 do for humanity. And may the bless- 
 ings of divine love follow and preserve 
 you ever, is the wish of 
 
 Your loving friend, 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number seven.] 
 
 San Francisco, August 8, 1892. 
 Doctor Nellie Beighle 
 
 My Dear Madam: Learning you 
 are about to leave San Francisco for a 
 professional trip to the Southern part of 
 this State and adjoining States, allow 
 me to present (through you) this token 
 of my esteem of your worthy self to any 
 and all persons in interest to obtain true 
 health. 
 
 You have been my family physician
 
 80 "OUR LITTLR DOCTOR." 
 
 for several years have carried (with 
 the assistance of the unseen ones who 
 control and guide you) my dear wife, as 
 well as myself, through very severe 
 attacks of illness, and restored us to a 
 better condition of health than we have 
 enjoyed for years. 
 
 I feel convinced that neither of us 
 would at present be upon this earth but 
 for the treatments bestowed upon us by 
 your wonderful hand, guided by your 
 unseen control. 
 
 I recommend you to all suffering 
 humanity with the strongest feelings 
 that if your control pronounces their 
 case hopeful, you will perform all they 
 promise. 
 
 I am, my dear madam, 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 (Signed)
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 81 
 
 [number EIGHT.] 
 
 San Francisco, August 26, 1892. 
 
 Dear Mrs. Dr. Beighle: Words 
 cannot express my gratitude for the 
 benefit I received while under your 
 treatment. 
 
 Your power to me has been simply 
 marvelous, as I have witnessed so many 
 cures performed by you which were pro- 
 nounced hopeless over and over again 
 by others. The more 1 think of it, the 
 more I am convinced that the gift has 
 been wisely bestowed, for you give as 
 freely as you receive without distinction 
 of race or color. And as you go from 
 us with your precious healing powers, 
 you also go laden with our love and 
 wishes for success, which you so richly 
 deserve personally as well as profession- 
 ally. Lovingly, 
 
 (Signed)
 
 82 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 [number NINE.] 
 
 Berkeley, August 18, 1892. 
 Dr. Nellie Beighle 
 
 Dear Doctor: I am unwilling you 
 should leave California (as 1 learn you 
 propose doing) without a slight testimo- 
 nial from me, and a grateful acknowl- 
 edgment of benefits received that mere 
 gold can never repay. My present 
 freedom from pain, with the cheering 
 prospect of complete restoration to 
 health in the near future, is, I believe, 
 entirely due to your wonderful healing 
 power. 
 
 For several years I have been a great 
 sufferer from a diseased liver and its 
 attendant ills. The two past years I 
 have been unable to attend to my busi- 
 ness much of the time confined to my 
 bed, suffering most excruciating pains in 
 the spinal cord and sciatic nerve. Phy- 
 sicians had exerted all their skill in their
 
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 vain efforts to cure. Though somewhat 
 relieved at times, and even able to get 
 about a little with the aid of a cane, the 
 slightest over-exertion was sure to bring 
 on a relapse of my old torture. 
 
 All my friends considered my case 
 beyond the reach of medical science. 
 I had seemingly exhausted the whole 
 catalogue of remedies in the fruitless 
 struggle for relief, and had long given 
 up the entire use of medicine as utterly 
 useless in my case. 
 
 It was only three months ago I heard 
 of you and the wonderful cures you were 
 performing, and at once placed myself 
 under your treatment. Though com- 
 menced with little faith or hope on my 
 part, the result was little less than mar- 
 velous. The first two weeks I received 
 your treatment daily (Sundays excepted), 
 afterwards on alternate days. At the 
 expiration of six weeks (at which time 
 you had predicted a cure) my liver
 
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 badly ulcerated for years appeared to 
 be perfectly sound and in healthy action. 
 My spine was all right the sciatic pains 
 were gone and a thrill of life, unfelt for 
 years, pervaded my whole being. 
 
 Now, just how or by what Power this 
 was done, I know not, but this I do 
 know: that whereas I was helplessly, 
 hopelessly sick, I am now, if not a well 
 man, at least on the high road to health, 
 with every prospect of retaining it. True, 
 your treatment necessarily left me still 
 weak and enfeebled by my long and 
 debilitating sickness, but I was free 
 from pain and felt altogether a new man 
 or an old one pretty well made over. 
 
 It seemed too wonderful to be true, 
 or at least to last. But as I rapidly 
 gained new strength and flesh, with re- 
 turning appetite, and no return of my 
 old enemy, I wanted to well, I felt like 
 holding a hallelujah meeting all by my- 
 self, and a pretty enthusiastic one, too.
 
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 That a change for the better has been 
 suddenly wrought in me, all my friends 
 can testify. They simply know the fact, 
 and can only wonder and say " How 
 strange ! " 
 
 And now, dear Doctor, allow me to 
 wish you God-speed in your proposed 
 journey and the full fruition of all your 
 hopes. And be assured that of the host 
 of friends you leave behind, whose kindly 
 wishes will follow you wherever you may 
 go, none will hold you in more grateful 
 remembrance than 
 
 Your sincere friend, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number ten.] 
 
 San Francisco, September 5, 1892. 
 Dk. Beighle 
 
 Dear Friend: It is with pleasure 
 and gratitude that I give this testimonial, 
 for I feel that you have done for me
 
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 what no doctor on earth could have 
 done. 
 
 For over ten years I have suffered 
 with a pain in my left side and arm, and 
 consulted some of the 'best physicians 
 who all treated me for rheumatism. I 
 had the electric battery applied for two 
 months, but it was of no use. 
 
 The pains in my left side seemed to 
 be getting worse, when accidentally I 
 heard about your God-given power, and 
 the result was that I was examined and 
 took treatment. I noticed the change 
 after a month's treatment, and now, after 
 three months' treatment, the pains have 
 almost all left me, and I am thankful to 
 say I think you have done for me more 
 than all the doctors could have done. 
 
 I seldom feel a pain now before treat- 
 ment I had pains almost continually. 
 
 Yours most truly, 
 
 (Signed)
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 87 
 
 [number ELEVEN.] 
 
 San Jose, Cal., September 9, 1892. 
 Dr. Nellie Beighle 
 
 Dear Doctor: Hearing that you 
 have been receiving testimonials from a 
 number you have cured, I take pleasure 
 in telling of what I consider a wonder- 
 ful cure of my wife some eight years 
 ago. 
 
 It was at a critical period of her life. 
 We had several first-class physicians 
 prescribe for her, but none seemed to do 
 her any good, and she was failing rapidly 
 until kind Providence directed us to you. 
 
 After one week's treatment by you 
 there was a remarkable change for the 
 better, and it was not long thereafter 
 before she was entirely cured of the dis- 
 ease which no physician seemed to un- 
 derstand. Your diagnosis of the case 
 was perfect in every respect, and I feel
 
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 like saying to you, "God bless you for 
 what you have done for my wife." 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number twelve.] 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal., September 24, 1890. 
 To Whom Concerned: I would state 
 that I am a conductor on the Southern 
 California Railway, and that on October 
 11, 1S89, I met with a serious acci- 
 dent, whereby my left foot was terribly 
 crushed through the ball. Was attended 
 by the company's physician here, and 
 two months after the injury, when the 
 foot to all outward appearances was 
 almost entirely healed, they were com- 
 pelled to cut it open, and removed sev- 
 enteen pieces of broken bone from the 
 ball and big toe joint. I then lost con- 
 fidence in our doctors here, and Dr. 
 Nellie Beighle* being highly recom-
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 89 
 
 mended to me, I determined to give 
 her a trial. On December 19th, I ar- 
 rived in San Francisco. The ''Little Doc- 
 tor" made a diagnosis of the case with- 
 out any questions, or even the removal 
 of bandages, and pronounced the trouble 
 to be black inflammation around the 
 bones, bordering on mortification. The 
 fifth treatment drew black clotted blood 
 from around the bones, and in three 
 weeks from the first treatment was able 
 to walk without the assistance of cane 
 or crutch. Took five weeks' treatment, 
 and sincerely feel that it was her won- 
 derful gift and power that saved my foot, 
 and to-day hold the ''Little Doctor" in the 
 highest appreciation and esteem for her 
 kindness and true worth to her patients, 
 and would say to one and all that when 
 she fails to help, that I truly feel there 
 is little or no hope of any one else doing 
 so. Respectfully, 
 
 (Signed)
 
 90 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 [number THIRTEEN.] 
 Modesto, September 7, 1890. 
 
 For ten years I had been a great suf- 
 ferer from heart trouble, and had con- 
 sulted and taken treatments from lead- 
 ing physicians of San Francisco and 
 Stockton, but without relief, and had 
 given up all hopes of ever getting well, 
 when I was recommended to Mrs. Dr. 
 Beighle, and placed myself under her 
 care. 
 
 She has entirely cured me of spasms 
 of the heart, also nervousness, and I 
 have had no return of the trouble since. 
 
 I would recommend her to all who 
 are suffering from disease; she will tell 
 you the truth if there is a cure she is 
 a perfect little lady. 
 
 I will never forget her, and I hope 
 God will keep her in good health, and 
 that she will retain her power for many, 
 many years is the wish of one of her 
 many patients. (Signed)
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 91 
 
 [NUMBER FOURTEEN.] 
 
 September 29, 1890. 
 
 Dear Dr. Beighle: You must ex- 
 cuse my not calling upon you oftener to 
 express my thanks to you. Many and 
 constant engagements must be my ex- 
 cuse. But I feel my obligation to you 
 and my appreciation of your services to 
 Mrs. H. just as much as if I called every 
 day to speak of them to you. 
 
 Your treatment is inexplicably pow- 
 erful in its effects upon her except upon 
 the principle that you are aided in a way 
 that is not ordinarily understood among 
 medical practitioners, not to speak of 
 men in general. 
 
 The effects I speak of are immediate 
 as well as powerful. It has seemed, 
 during the last twelve months, as if, 
 whenever Mrs. H. is out of health, she 
 has nothing to do but come and see 
 you, and she returns to her home a new 
 being.
 
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 I should like to know how it comes 
 to pass that you are thus privileged to 
 have access to the fountain of life, but 
 probably you scarcely know how it is 
 yourself. However, the fact is there, 
 you renew Mrs. H.'s youth as I have 
 never known anyone else or anything 
 else. I am glad that there are some 
 powers that worldly wealth cannot pur- 
 chase, and I am glad, too, from what 
 Mrs. H. so often says of your beautiful 
 and generous nature, that you possess 
 one of them. 
 
 I am, yours very truly, 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number fifteen.] 
 Alameda, September 13, 1890. 
 Mrs. Dr. Beighle 
 
 Dear Friend: Your note received 
 asking about my eyes. I am completely 
 well, a happy condition which I had
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 93 
 
 feared could never be possible again, 
 and this is certainly almost wholly due 
 to the course of treatment given me by 
 you, as rest alone did not seem to help 
 me. 
 
 Thinking over the why of this cure, I 
 am confident there is a transmission 
 from you to your patients of the life 
 principle (or electro-magnetic current). 
 
 This is a phenomenon well established 
 in medical science, but usually the trans- 
 mission of this force, while helping the 
 patient, correspondingly weakens the 
 practitioner. The phenomenon to me, 
 therefore, is not that you have helped 
 me and others in this way, as you unde- 
 niably have, but that you have done so 
 without weakening yourself. 
 
 Possibly scientific research will in the 
 future explain the phenomenon, but it 
 does exist, and with you in a remark- 
 able degree, in proof of which I write 
 this without my glasses. Money does
 
 94 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 not pay such an obligation, and I shall 
 always feel in your debt. 
 
 Sincerely your friend, 
 (Signed) 
 
 [NUMBER SIXTEEN.] 
 
 Alameda, August 18, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. Dr. Beighle: A little over five 
 years ago I was brought to you for 
 treatment, as I could not get to your 
 office alone. 
 
 I was in a very bad condition, suffer- 
 ing with my kidneys, bladder and rheu- 
 matism in my arms and shoulders. I 
 had been subject to sick headache all 
 my life and was frequently taken with 
 a choking spell very much resembling 
 croup. In fact, all doctors who attended 
 me when suffering from that cause, pro- 
 nounced it croup. 
 
 You told me differently and explained 
 the cause. You said you could remove
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 95 
 
 it, and you did. I can assure you, I was 
 never so surprised in my life when you 
 told me I was affected in that manner, 
 as you had never seen or heard of me 
 before. 
 
 Since your treatment I have been 
 entirely well, and have full confidence 
 that I will never have a return of either 
 sick headache or that choking in my 
 throat. 
 
 I am now sixty-five years of age and 
 can assure you, dear madam, that there 
 can be no healthier man living than your 
 ever, Grateful friend, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number seventeen.] 
 
 San Francisco, February 8, 1892. 
 
 To All Whom It May Concern: 
 That I, the undersigned, was doing 
 business in the town of Ophir, Placer 
 County, Cal., the year 1890. The
 
 96 " OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 month of July I was sunstruck, and 
 within six weeks after that time I was 
 overcome with the heat twice. During 
 this time I would stagger when I at- 
 tempted to walk, as though I were 
 drunk. I became so weak I went to 
 San Francisco for medical aid. I called 
 
 on Dr. ; he experimented on me 
 
 four days and called my complaint ner- 
 vous prostration ; said I should move 
 into a cool climate. I came to San 
 Francisco finally and started business 
 with the belief that I could build myself 
 up, as I had an unnatural appetite. I 
 was treated by the Doctor two months 
 and continued to get weaker all the time 
 my head and back ached. Some 
 nights I could not sleep at all, the pain 
 was so severe. I went to other doctors 
 during the summer of 1891, but could 
 not get a positive answer whether they 
 could give me any relief or not, but 
 called it nervous prostration. I finally
 
 Spirit Liiaki.ks I'armivm. 
 
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 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 97 
 
 became so weak that I could not raise 
 my head. Then I quit business, as I 
 believed, forever. 
 
 I heard of the Oriental Medical Syn- 
 dicate I went there. The chief exam- 
 iner said I could be cured. He had me 
 go to see the surgeon-in chief he asked 
 many questions and finally came to the 
 conclusion that my trouble was nervous 
 prostration, and if I would play gentle- 
 man six or eight years, do nothing to 
 excite my nerves or brain and take medi- 
 cine all the time, I might get well 
 nothing sure. I said to myself " Good- 
 bye to medical science." A short time 
 after that I called on a friend, Mr. Lamb, 
 master-mechanic of the P. & O. R. R. 
 In talking with him, he advised me to 
 go to Doctor Nellie Beighle. Mr. Lamb 
 told me what condition he was in and 
 how well Dr. Beighle described his con- 
 dition after examination ; that he began 
 to take treatments of the Doctor at once
 
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 and was able to go to work in a very 
 short time, and that the Doctor diag- 
 nosed diseases without asking questions. 
 When I learned that was the case, I 
 went to Dr. Beighle the same day, as I 
 believed there was a chance for me yet. 
 The Doctor examined me, told me 
 where the seat of my trouble was and 
 the cause of same ; she said she would 
 cure me in six or eight weeks. I began 
 treatments the second day of December, 
 and in eight weeks' time I felt as well 
 as I ever did in my life, and furthermore, 
 I gained ten pounds in flesh during the 
 treatment. The Doctor says in three 
 months from this time, I will be safe in 
 knocking a man down ; I can do it now, 
 and don't you forget it. 
 
 I shall bless the day as long as I live 
 that I went to Doctor Nellie Beighle. 
 She saved me from a premature grave, 
 or worse, a raving maniac, which some 
 of the doctors said was my fate.
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 99 
 
 I would advise any one who is suffer- 
 ing for the want of proper treatment, 
 and who would like to get well, to go to 
 Dr. Nellie Beighle. I am sure if any- 
 one can effect cures, she can. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 P. S. Dr. Nellie Beighle, you are 
 at liberty to do with this letter or state- 
 ment as you like. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number eighteen.] 
 
 San Francisco, August 8, 1892. 
 
 My Dear Doctor: Before your de- 
 parture for the East, I deemed it only 
 right that I should express to you my 
 gratitude for the wondrous power you 
 have shown in the treatment of disease, 
 so far as it appertains to myself. 
 
 This is to certify that you have cured
 
 100 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 me of sciatic rheumatism, and of neural- 
 gia of the stomach. After a friendship 
 of seventeen years I have always found 
 you conscientious, and can say that I 
 know that no mechanical power is used 
 in the treatment of disease. 
 
 The marvelous cures performed by 
 you attest more strongly than words to 
 your wondrous curative faculties, and 
 place you among the marvels of the 
 age. Sincerely your friend, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 [NUMBER NINETEEN.] 
 
 Aptos, August 15, 1892. 
 
 My Dear Dr. Beighle: We are 
 sorry to learn that you are intending to 
 leave us for another locality, and we 
 want to express to you (as far as words 
 can) our appreciation of your wonderful 
 power in the treatment of the sick. 
 
 Yours is a supernatural gift and is a
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 101 
 
 blessing: to the world. I do not believe 
 that there is another such gifted healer 
 in the world. Your case of my hus- 
 band seems a miracle, and the relief 
 which you always afford me in nervous 
 prostration and other disorders is almost 
 instantaneous. 
 
 We hope that all blessings may follow 
 you in your new field of labor. We are 
 sorry to part with you, but our loss is 
 others' gain. 
 
 Yours in the bond of friendship, 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number twenty.] 
 
 San Francisco, August 21, 1892. 
 Dr. Nellie Beighle 
 
 Dear Madam: I herewith wish to 
 acknowledge the great benefit I received 
 from your treatment, you having cured 
 me of a disease of which my family 
 physician was entirely unaware.
 
 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 I deem your diagnosis as something 
 wonderful, and I am enjoying better 
 health than for many years, and I feel 
 that such could not have been the case 
 had those gall-stones remained in my 
 system until this time. 
 
 I hear of many wonderful cures 
 through your mediumship, and you 
 must be somewhat elated when you 
 look over your record the past fourteen 
 years. 
 
 What shall we say of Christians, who 
 claim to follow Christ, but have not the 
 power to heal, and it is left to the much- 
 despised Spiritual Medium to do His 
 work? He taught the disciples to heal, 
 but who ever heard of an orthodox 
 preacher curing the simplest ailment by 
 the simple touch of his hand ? 
 
 I hope that right hand of yours will 
 continue to give relief to many sufferers, 
 and that your other spiritual powers will 
 be instrumental in removing the dark
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 103 
 
 pall of superstition that has so long 
 hung over the minds and hearts of the 
 people. Most gratefully and truly, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number twenty-one.] 
 
 Oakland, September 4, 1892. 
 
 To Whom It May Concern: This 
 is to certify that Mrs. Dr. Nellie Beighle, 
 of San Francisco, is the one who has 
 saved the life of my little boy, who was 
 afflicted with a bad case of hip-disease. 
 
 After being given up by some of the 
 best physicians of the country, we came 
 to the conclusion that we would try the 
 hot springs, which proved little or no 
 good. 
 
 Then the last, but not the least, we 
 thought we would try the virtue of lay- 
 ing on of hands, and after the first treat- 
 ment the child was able to be dressed
 
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 and taken to the doctor's office where 
 he has been successfully treated. 
 
 He could not move or be moved 
 when the doctor took him, only as we 
 pulled him on a sheet in bed, and, with 
 no bad luck, we expect to see him in his 
 usual good health. 
 
 The child was afflicted two years be- 
 fore the doctor took him as a patient, 
 and was a very bad cripple. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number twenty-two.] 
 For twenty years I have been troub- 
 led with dropsy. I tried patent medi- 
 cines without getting any relief. I could 
 not count the different doctors that I 
 tried. They finally gave me up, saying 
 there was no help for me. I felt that I 
 had but a short time to live, and as a 
 last resort, I placed myself under the
 
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 treatment of Doctor Nellie Beighle. I 
 have been under her care three months 
 and feel that I am now a well woman. 
 
 1 most heartily recommend her to the 
 sick and suffering, and especially to 
 those who have tried other means with- 
 out avail. (Signed) 
 
 [number twenty-three.] 
 San Francisco, September 8, 1892. 
 Cannot say too much in praise of Dr. 
 Nellie Beighle's wonderful power, after 
 what she has done for me, and heartily 
 recommend anyone to her, knowing 
 full well without the aid of medicine she 
 can restore the most obstinate case. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number twenty-four.] 
 San Francisco, May 2, 1882. 
 Mrs. Dr. N. Beighle 
 
 Dear Madam: I desire to say that 
 when I came to you for treatment, I
 
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 had been a sufferer with neuralgia for 
 at least ten years, hardly a week passing 
 without having a severe attack. After 
 being treated by you about a dozen 
 times, the attacks ceased altogether. I 
 had previously tried about all the reme- 
 dies known, but all without effect. 
 
 I was always a non-believer in mag- 
 netic healing, but I am now thoroughly 
 convinced that it is "the remedy." 
 
 You will probably hear from my wife 
 in a few days, as I consider you saved 
 her life when the ordinary physicians 
 gave her up. 
 
 With many thanks, I remain, 
 Yours truly, 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number twenty-five.] 
 San Francisco, July, 1887. 
 Mrs. Dr. N. Beighle 
 
 Dear Madam: I have been intend- 
 ing to call and see you, to express my
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 107 
 
 sincere thanks for the treatment you 
 gave me. Before I came to you I 
 had been suffering with inflammatory 
 rheumatism night and day. I had tried 
 three physicians, but could get no relief, 
 and had also taken so much medicine 
 that I could not retain any more in 
 fact, the physicians had given me up. 
 
 Since your treatment I have never 
 felt the slightest touch of rheumatism. 
 
 In closing, I desire to say that my 
 husband considered your bill very rea- 
 sonable, and takes great pleasure in 
 telling people about your wonderful 
 cures. 
 
 With best regards, I remain, 
 Respectfully yours, 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number twenty-six.] 
 Mrs. Dr. Nellie Beighle 
 
 My Dear Doctor: After having 
 suffered for about three years with my
 
 108 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 head, and going to all the best doctors, 
 who relieved me only for a few days, I 
 was recommended to you. 
 
 I was not to be trusted out alone, as 
 I would fall wherever I was. And now 
 I consider mvself a well woman, thanks 
 to the dear u Little Doctor " and the God 
 who gave her the power. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number twenty-seven.] 
 
 San Francisco, Cal., \ 
 September 26, 1892. ) 
 
 My Dear Mrs. Beighle: I have very 
 much pleasure in certifying that I re- 
 ceived very great benefit from treat- 
 ments I received from you for nervous- 
 ness, some time since, and that my wife 
 has also been benefited by receiving 
 treatment from you at different times. 
 
 My wife's little nephew, Weir Ander-
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. 109 
 
 son, who had a stroke of infantile paraly- 
 sis several years ago which left him 
 with one leg entirely useless, has been 
 very much helped by your treatments, 
 being able to discard one crutch en- 
 tirely. 
 
 I shall be very pleased, indeed, at any 
 time, to recommend any one you may 
 refer to me, to your good services and 
 the power of your right arm, which, ex- 
 perience has taught us, is very effectual. 
 
 With very kind regards, I remain, 
 
 Yours very sincerely, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 [number twenty-eight.] 
 Boston, Mass., December 19, 1888. 
 
 Dr. Nellie Beigiile, San Francisco, 
 Cal. 
 Esteemed Madam: Prof. J. Rhodes 
 
 Buchanan, M. D., has called my atten-
 
 110 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 tion to your withering reply to the Sec- 
 retary of the California Board of Bigots, 
 as published in the Golden Gate. 
 
 I write to thank you for contributing 
 this cutting bit of sarcasm to the cause 
 of constitutional liberty. 
 
 Will send you samples of the Libera- 
 tor, hoping thereby to interest yourself 
 and friends in the cause in which we 
 have so much pride and pleasure. 
 
 We shall put your letter in ten thou- 
 sand hands hands governed by prin- 
 ciple instead of prejudice people who 
 will put it where it will do the most 
 good. 
 
 Should be pleased to receive from 
 yourself and friends, bits of news, clip- 
 pings and contributions, concerning the 
 invasions of constitutional liberty or its 
 triumphs. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, 
 
 (Signed)
 
 SOME APPROVING WORDS. Ill 
 
 NUMBER TWENTY-NINE.] 
 
 San Francisco, October 21, 1892. 
 
 Dr. Beighle: I can assure you it 
 gives me a great pleasure to be able to 
 say a few words about your wonderful 
 mediumship and wonderful spirit power. 
 I am very much pleased in being one of 
 your patients. I know you have helped 
 me wonderfully. Being a Spiritualist, I 
 am better capable of appreciating the 
 great work of your noble band of spirits, 
 and the great work you are doing for 
 suffering humanity ; and doing it so 
 nobly and faithfully, you deserve great 
 credit. You treat everybody alike. You 
 make no distinction between rich and 
 poor, and you teach the world a lesson 
 that speaks volumes for itself. 
 Yours truly, 
 
 (Signed)
 
 LITTLE HARRY BROWN. 
 
 p)ROBABLY the most remarkable 
 case ever brought under treatment 
 of the "Little Doctor" was that of a five- 
 year-old boy, named Harry Brown. 
 This little boy was brought to her in the 
 fall of 1892. He had been treated for 
 hip-disease by a regular physician of the 
 old school, until the means of the par- 
 ents, who were in humble circumstances, 
 were exhausted. Harry's right leg was 
 then three and one-half inches shorter 
 than the left. It was small and shriv- 
 eled and entirely useless. His physician 
 had had an iron frame, or cage, made 
 to hold the limb in place, which the 
 child was obliged to wear night and 
 day, and the leg had been cruelly plas- 
 tered and blistered, causing great suffer-
 
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 ing, but all to no purpose. The child 
 had not stepped his weight upon the leg 
 for about three years, and there was 
 every indication that it would never be 
 of any use to him. His physician said 
 that a surgical operation at the thigh, of 
 a kind that he described, might save the 
 leg. In this condition Harry was brought 
 to the "Little Doctor." His parents as- 
 sured her that they were unable to pay 
 for treatment, but that made no more 
 difference with her than it did with her 
 illustrious Prototype who went about 
 healing the sick and doing good among 
 the poor fishermen on the shore of the 
 Sea of Galilee. She proceeded to ex- 
 amine the case. She said at once that 
 there was no disease of the hip there, 
 and that the treatment had been all 
 wrong; that the trouble was in a strained
 
 114 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 and injured nerve of the leg. She took 
 off the iron cage from the leg, removed 
 the plasters, and gave him a thorough 
 treatment with her electric hand. She 
 then told Harry to get up and walk, and 
 he did so, a little awkwardly at first; but 
 with a few more treatments he was pro- 
 nounced permanently cured. The leg 
 commenced growing rapidly and filling 
 out, until at this writing, about four 
 months after the first treatment, the leg is 
 completely restored to its normal condi- 
 tion. Harry was brought to the writer 
 on the eighth day of xA.pril, 1893. We 
 found him a bright, beautiful little boy, 
 without the slightest limp that we could 
 discover in his walk. He thinks his 
 " Little Doctor" is the best doctor in all 
 the world. His parents, too, and the 
 friends and neighbors familiar with the 
 case, look upon the marvelous effect of 
 her treatment as a miracle.
 
 FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD. 
 
 QMONG the "Spirit Messages" in 
 the late Better Way, published in 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, given through the 
 mediumship of Henry H. Warner, is one 
 from Henry Beighle, father of the hus- 
 band of Dr. Nellie Beighle, referring to 
 the " Little Doctor : " 
 
 I do not know whether many of the 
 people in San Francisco will remember 
 me or not, but there is one who will, and 
 to her I say, Nellie, dear heart, you need 
 not fear, for there is a band of faithful 
 workers who have ever stood by your 
 side in the dark hours of the past, when 
 sorrow and affliction were your portion, 
 and shall we desert you now when you 
 are so near the haven of rest? No ! We 
 draw still closer around you and eve
 
 116 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 strengthen you with our presence. 
 This is the symbol that is given to us 
 for you : A wreath of laurel leaves, 
 among which are twined blossoms of 
 hearts-ease, sweet mignonette, and lilies 
 of the valley; the laurel is the emblem 
 of your victory over all opposition ; the 
 heart's-ease is what you have been to 
 many weary travelers on life's highway; 
 the mignonette, the sweet incense of 
 love and harmony that you are continu- 
 ally giving unto others ; and the lilies 
 typify the music of the spiritual realms 
 to which your heart is ever attuned. 
 May you ever realize the presence of 
 the angel loved ones near you to guide 
 and sustain you. To Mrs. Dr. Beighle, 
 San Francisco.
 
 DR. BEIGHLE'S GUIDES. 
 
 HE friends of the " Little Doctor" 
 will no doubt be glad to learn some- 
 thing about her spirit guides, who are 
 her constant attendants when she is en- 
 gaged in her work of healing. Sir Ast- 
 ley Paston Cooper, her medical expert 
 and guide, was born in the village of 
 Brooke, in Norfolk, England, August 
 23, 1768. His father, Dr. Cooper, was 
 a clergyman of the Church of England ; 
 his mother was the author of several 
 novels. At the age of sixteen he was 
 sent to London and placed under Dr. 
 Cline, surgeon to St. Thomas Hospital. 
 From the first he devoted himself to the 
 study of anatomy and surgery. In 1784, 
 when only twenty-one years of age, he 
 was'appointed demonstrator of anatomy
 
 118 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 at St. Thomas Hospital. He rapidly 
 rose to eminence in his profession, and 
 published several works on various 
 branches of surgery. His chief works 
 are medical records and researches. So 
 great had his fame increased that in 
 18 1 3 his annual professional income 
 amounted to ,21,000 sterling, a vast 
 sum in those days. In 1820 he removed 
 a steatomatous tumor from the head of 
 George IV, and about six months later 
 he was created a baron. Many orders 
 and honors were conferred upon him by 
 various colleges and societies, and he 
 was subsequently appointed surgeon to 
 the king. He passed to the other life, 
 February 12, 1841, at the age of seven- 
 ty-three. His was a singularly gentle 
 nature, a thorough student in his noble 
 profession, and a most fitting spirit to
 
 DR. BEIGHLE'S GUIDES. 119 
 
 guide our "Little Doctor" in her work. 
 We give a good likeness of this re- 
 nowned physician elsewhere in this vol- 
 ume. If for any reason he cannot be 
 present with his medium when his pres- 
 ence is required, he invariably designates 
 some competent spirit physician to act 
 for him. In fact he has many compet- 
 ent assistants working in harmony with 
 him, who are ever ready to aid him in 
 any work he may require, thus demon- 
 strating that the spirit world is a very 
 busy world. There is no room for 
 idlers there. 
 
 The mother of the " Little Doctor "is 
 another of her guides, and most constant 
 attendant. She passed on at the age of 
 forty-six. She was the mother of twelve 
 children, eight of whom are still living. 
 Her husband was a lawyer, in earlier
 
 120 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 years a man of wealth and eminence in 
 his profession. Both parents were de- 
 vout religionists of the strictest Presby- 
 terian faith. A likeness of the mother 
 we give herewith. 
 
 The last, but not the least important, 
 member of her band is Charles H. Farn- 
 ham, a near and dear friend of the Doc- 
 tor, whose likeness is also given. He 
 came to her in spirit announcing his 
 death, and as a test of his identity in- 
 formed her of the sudden death, from a 
 fall, of his stepmother. The Doctor 
 was shortly thereafter informed by mail 
 of the facts as he had stated, and con- 
 cerning which she could have had no 
 mortal knowledge. The work of this 
 guide is singularly important. He man- 
 ages and keeps in order the spirit tele- 
 phone whereby the " Little Doctor " is
 
 DR. BEIGHLE'S GUIDES. 121 
 
 able to communicate directly with her 
 guides and other spirits. The voices 
 sound to her like voices spoken 
 through a telephone. In difficult cases 
 where Dr. Cooper calls in other spirit 
 physicians for consultation, she often 
 hears their interesting discussions on 
 the case. Charley is always on hand 
 when required, and is a great favor- 
 ite with her intimate friends on both 
 sides of life. And thus he is faith- 
 fully doing his work in spirit, and work- 
 ing out his unfoldment in the pathway 
 of eternal progression. 
 
 There is something beautiful in the 
 idea that spirits who pass to the other 
 life before their earthwork is accom- 
 plished, are thus able to return to earth 
 and complete their tasks, and thereby 
 they round out their lives, and fit them- 
 selves for more rapid advancement in 
 the hereafter.
 
 INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 
 
 COME most remarkable tests of spirit 
 identity and presence have been 
 given through the " Little Doctor " at 
 various times. In fact, scarcely a day 
 passes that some striking test is not 
 given through her psychic power. 
 
 In one instance she had been sent 
 for to treat a very sick girl. Her 
 guides informed her that it was too late, 
 as the girl had passed over to the other 
 side. Shortly thereafter she received 
 the following telegram: " Too late. 
 Effie died at half past one." 
 
 " Last night at six," she said to the 
 writer a few days ago, " I picked up a 
 small hand mirror that had been pre- 
 sented to me by a dear friend residing 
 across the bay, when instantly loud raps
 
 INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 123 
 
 appeared upon the table, and I felt the 
 presence of my friend. The following 
 day I received a letter from her in 
 which I was informed that while she 
 was writing to me, at precisely the same 
 time, she suddenly heard raps upon her 
 table which brought to her the thought 
 that I was at that moment thinking of 
 her." So frequently do incidents of this 
 character occur with her that they have 
 ceased to be a novelty. 
 
 On one occasion she had promised to 
 prepare a lunch for a friend who was 
 about to depart for Colorado. He called 
 upon her to advise her that he had given 
 up his room and would take his departure 
 that afternoon. Immediately she saw, 
 clairvoyantly, written upon the wall the 
 words: " No, not until the eighth day of 
 April," which was three weeks later.
 
 124 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 She told him what she saw. " Non- 
 sense," he replied, "my businesses all 
 arranged and I shall leave to-day." But 
 something prevented his going, as he 
 intended, and he did not leave uniil the 
 very day she predicted. 
 
 On another occasion, while treating a 
 patient for disease of the bladder, she 
 suddenly felt that two fingers of her 
 right hand were dead and had dropped 
 off. The sensation was so peculiar that 
 she could not refrain from expressing 
 astonishment thereat. The patient, 
 equally astonished, exclaimed, " My 
 God, Doctor, they are scraping the in- 
 side of my bladder," and from that 
 moment the patient began to improve, 
 and soon fully recovered. 
 
 One of her lady patients came to her 
 room one day, accompanied by a lady
 
 INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 125 
 
 who was a stranger to her, and wished a 
 diagnosis of her case, at the same time 
 informing the Doctor that she was very 
 skeptical on the subject of spirit healing. 
 The Doctor gave her a correct diagnosis 
 of her case, and also described a vision 
 that opened to her eyes. She saw a 
 vision of a house across the water and a 
 woman in sore distress. She could see 
 two pair of hands working over her, and 
 thought they were the hands of two 
 physicians. All seemed in great con- 
 fusion. The vision disappeared, and 
 she repeated it to her patient, who could 
 not understand it. The vision appeared 
 to her again, and she gave a description 
 of the woman, and also of an attendant. 
 The descriptions were that of a mother 
 and sister of the patient. She also saw 
 and gave the names of the two women,
 
 126 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 and said that the physicians had j'ust 
 declared the trouble, of the older woman 
 to be cancer. The patient had never 
 heard that her mother was afflicted with 
 cancer, and thought that, with the excep- 
 tion of the names, which the Doctor 
 had got hold of in some way, the vision 
 was a deception. Two weeks later 
 the lady brought a letter to the Doctor, 
 and asked her if she remembered the 
 vision she saw for her two weeks 
 before. The Doctor replied that she 
 never could forget it. She then read 
 the letter, which informed her that her 
 mother had been ill for some time, and 
 that a council of physicians had been 
 held, who pronounced her case cancer! 
 It also appeared that the physicians had 
 examined the mother's case on the very 
 day, and at the precise time that the 
 Doctor saw it. The patient was a 
 skeptic no longer.
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 TN drawing this humble tribute to the 
 worth and merit of our " Little Doc- 
 tor," as a woman and spiritual healer, to a 
 close, it may not be amiss to devote a 
 brief spare to the philosophy of these 
 cures. 
 
 Nature has many laws and resources 
 which are yet but little understood. 
 We live in a world of spirit forces, and 
 are subject to conditions and influences, 
 which, under intelligent guidance, can, 
 no doubt, be made to so change the 
 currents of our bodies as to alleviate 
 most of the ills which they are heir to. 
 Sickness is simply the physical body 
 out of harmony with its environments. 
 The spirit physician, fully understand- 
 ing this fact, and understanding also
 
 128 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 how to change or adjust the magnetic 
 currents of the body so as to restore 
 harmony, effects a cure often where the 
 materia] physician would fail. And 
 then the spirit healer, whose clairvoyant 
 powers are well developed, can make no 
 mistake as to the nature of the disease. 
 The physical body is an open book to 
 Dr. Beighle. She can see all of its 
 intricate machinery and secret springs, 
 and is thus prepared to determine ex 
 actly what is necessary to restore har- 
 mony of action of the diseased or af- 
 fected parts. 
 
 Dr. Beighle is not allowed by her 
 guides to treat virulent contagious dis- 
 eases, such as the small pox and con- 
 tagious fevers. While her guides are 
 no doubt able to protect her from con- 
 tracting these diseases, as they have
 
 CONCLUSION. 129 
 
 done in many instances, and also render 
 valuable assistance to those afflicted 
 therewith, they nevertheless choose to 
 protect her from any evil consequences 
 resulting from such treatment either to 
 herself or friends. 
 
 Of course, the work of this remark- 
 able healer can be nowheres understood 
 and appreciated as it is in San Francisco, 
 where she has devoted so many years to 
 the treatment of disease. She has never 
 had occasion to go elsewhere, as patients 
 from various parts of the State come 
 to her. 
 
 In the regular practice of the old 
 systems of medicine, physicians with 
 one-half her practice would become 
 wealthy in a few years own elegant 
 homes, keep a carriage, servants, etc. 
 Hut not so with the ' Little Doctor."
 
 130 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 There are too many claimants upon 
 her charity, as well as her sympathy. 
 When her office and family expenses 
 do not absorb all of her income, 
 the surplus is very apt to find em- 
 ployment in the alleviation of human 
 suffering. To treat some poor and 
 needy patient and furnish expenses for 
 support at the same time, are too com- 
 mon with her to permit the accumula- 
 tion of much of this world's goods or 
 treasure in her hands. Her friends 
 tell her that she is too unselfish for her 
 own good. But it isn't her own good 
 she is seeking. She is simply u doing 
 her Master's work" healing the sick 
 and pouring the oil of joy upon bruised 
 hearts. Money is nothing to her, save 
 as a necessary means of meeting her 
 business obligations, and feeding some
 
 CONCLUSION. 131 
 
 hungry mouth. If she possessed the 
 wealth of an Astor or Vanderbilt, she 
 would scatter it where it would do the 
 most good, with a most lavish hand. 
 
 Of course this is not in accord with 
 the ideas of the cold matter-of-fact 
 world. Money grabbers do not do 
 business in that way. The hard-headed 
 old skinflint, who coins the blood and 
 muscle of his fellow beings into ingots 
 to enhance his stores, would, no doubt, 
 think it a foolish neglect of opportunity 
 in the " Little Doctor " not to utilize 
 her gifts to the utmost for money-mak- 
 ing powers ! But she believes there 
 are higher and nobler ends in life than 
 the acquisition of wealth for heirs to 
 wrangle over, and lawyers to divide 
 among themselves. And so she doesn't 
 care to encumber herself with any un-
 
 132 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 necessary rubbish to weigh her spirit 
 down when her earthly work is done and 
 she is called by the angels she has so faith- 
 fully served, to come up higher. And 
 here we will leave her in the hands of 
 her guides, fully assured that when her 
 life-work is over, she will enjoy the 
 luxury of a beautiful home in the Sum- 
 merland of the Soul.
 
 OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 Thou angel ministrant of health, 
 What magic lies within thy hand! 
 
 Thy spirit gifts, what priceless wealth 
 Is placed at thy command! 
 
 The touch of sympathy and love 
 
 Goes with thy power, the sick to heal, 
 
 And solace from kind hearts above 
 The suffering soul may feel. 
 
 The lame arise, and cast aside 
 
 Their bonds, to stand henceforth alone, 
 In all the conscious strength and pride 
 
 Of health's most precious boon. 
 
 The blind behold the light again, 
 The deaf the voice of love can hear, 
 
 And the dark clouds of woe and pain 
 Are caused to disappear. 
 
 What service grander can there be 
 
 Than that which breaks the galling chain 
 
 And ushers into liberty 
 The body freed from pain ?
 
 134 "OUR LITTLE DOCTOR." 
 
 Long may our " Little Doctor" live, 
 The world's sad side of life to cheer, 
 
 And of her " Balm of Gilead " give 
 To those who need her here. 
 
 If the good we do shall blossom forth 
 In blessings in the world to come, 
 
 What " pearly gates" and mansion grand 
 Will be her spirit home!
 
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