THE REWARDS FOR HIS EFFORTS.

"All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?" ~ Buddha

Notably among his first cases was the son of a well-known clothing merchant of Sedalia, Missouri, who was healed of locomotor ataxia in the remarkable short period of seventeen days; and another equally astounding case was that of a nine year old, afflicted with infantile paralysis, whose restoration was accomplished in less than six weeks.

Numerous cures of sciatica, chronic stomach and bowel troubles, and all manner of nervous disorders yielded as readily to his treatment and attracted such widespread attention that a business organization was formed and what is now known as the Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics of Nevada, Missouri, was founded.

On February 19, 1897, he established the American School of Magnetic Healing in Nevada, Missouri. Weltmer had a great deal of success in curing "people who were considered hopeless invalids" without drugs or surgery. On April 5, 1897, Weltmer began teaching classes on the Weltmer Method of Healing.

"Where every known disease is cured without medicine or surgery".

In establishing an Institution of this character the founders had no precedent to guide them, for this was the first institution of its kind ever established and there were no plans charted for its successful and safe conduct.

In 1899 Professor Weltmer wrote a Mail Course in Magnetic Healing, of which some forty-five thousand courses were distributed among the English speaking inhabitants of all parts of the world. This course was little more than a statement of principles, with instructions for the demonstration of the principles stated.

The Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics consisted of a school and sanitarium. The school consisted of a four year program that included courses in the art of healing and the Philosophy of Health, Suggestive Therapeutics, Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology and resulted in the degree of a Doctor of Suggestive Therapeutics (D.S.T.).

The school also had a correspondence course.

Weltmer was described as a professor, hypnotist, healer, and mystic.

In 25 years, this Sanitarium and School, starting with nothing except a method that would heal, had extended his influence and service to all parts of the world. By means of his personal service, courses and publications, he directly served and benefited more than five hundred thousand people. And each one of these, in turn, in their personal contact with relatives, friends, acquaintances and audiences, extended the benefits of the Weltmer Method, Suggestotherapy to a large number of persons.

By means of its teachings and actual practice, this Institution had developed the Science of Suggestotherapy, which is the twentieth century meant for the healing of the sick, the unhappy, and the poor. Thus it was abreast of the twentieth century developments in other lines of human endeavor.

The Weltmer Method—Suggestotherapy—stood several severe investigations, the most severe of which resulted in the report that:
67 percent of its patients had been cured or permanently benefited.
30 per cent additional were well pleased, and only
3 percent were displeased.

... We are living in an age of advancement and investigation where light is pouring in so distinctly and he who shuts his eyes and scoffs and sneers because others open theirs and see is not only recreant to duty, but does society in general and mankind in particular an irreparable wrong. ...

Weltmer knew the power of the mind to heal. He determined mind affects mind. But he believed in the body (cells, tissue, etc) as a conscious organism capable of restoring health and used his hands as a conduit to transmit or send his intentions to them. (Quimby on the other hand any movements of his hands were strictly to reassure the patient and not all necessary for the healing to occur. Besides Quimby had already disproved the need of the term animal magmetism.).

Sidney A. Weltmer died in Nevada, Missouri in 1930. The Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics remained in operation until 1933.

After Weltmer died medical mesmerism waned and was pretty much forgotten. Later healing methods were introduced which adopted Eastern, Theosophical connotations. The terms ‘Medical mesmerism’ and ‘animal magnetism’ were replaced by ‘chakras’ and ‘energy’ and the emphasis on healing shifted from inside to outside.

And none of this was in any way related what so ever to the healing methodology of P.P. Quimby.
Quimby was quite clear:

All is mind.
Your power to heal is within.
As we feel the PRESENCE, we receive an impress of its beauty and perfection.