During the grave influenza epidemic of 1918, all our seven children caught the disease, and we re cured by Dr. Harry Kellgren, a worthy son and follower of his father, Jonas Henrik Kellgren. Dr. Harry Kellgren never spared himself for others, and, alas, in 1919, the world was deprived of his great healing ability by his early death from heart failure.
The drawback to the Kellgren method of healing is no doubt the time and exertion it takes. Moreover, it is not everybody who is fit to learn such a treatment. It requires, in addition to the ordinary curriculum of knowledge of all parts of the body and their interrelation, very sensitive fingers and perception.
The Kellgren doctor must feel, through his fingers tips, where and how, and in what way the sick patient is ill; there must be contact between the life-force (akin to electricity) of the manipulator and his patient, and finally he must comprehend what the whole body needs in order to let the affected parts regain their normal health.
Perhaps one of the most remarkable cures personally known to me was that of a friend whose eye-ball was severely damaged by the impact of a tennis ball as she stood watching the game, and she lost the sight of that eye. The years went by, and the great eye specialist who attended her warned her that unless the injured eye was removed she would go blind in the other eye as well.
She went under the Kellgren treatment in the hope that the conditions would be soothed, and that the operation would not be necessary. But the unexpected happened. Not only was she able to avoid an operation, but she became able to see with the eye that had been blind since her injury.
