| Late at night, one night after the time change, working | | | | Dr Ella, as we all called her, then opened another clinic |
| an extra hour at warp speed, I taught one of my nurse | | | | in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where patients came for |
| colleagues how to do Mechano-Magic! | | | | treatments and extended stays, with the additional |
| I taught her first by asking her to watch another nurse | | | | healing of ocean power and lunar tidal rhythms. |
| friend do the treatment on me, then she received the | | | | This was Dr. Ella's favorite location, but she eventually |
| treatment. | | | | settled in Philadelphia and had a thriving |
| Now she needs to give me the treatment so I can | | | | Mechano-Magic practice there until her death, well into |
| evaluate her touch. | | | | her nineties. |
| She asked me: do patients think it's weird when you | | | | I'd go there with Dr Ella's friend, Dorothea Williams, |
| offer to give them a treatment? Do they ever say | | | | whose husband, Hal, a homeopath and my family |
| No? | | | | doctor, learned the treatment and treated many of his |
| I had to think about this. No, no one has ever refused | | | | patients, including my family. |
| the treatment, unless she is in active labor, at which | | | | I learned how to do the treatment from Hal Williams. |
| time, she doesn't want anyone to come near her. This | | | | Receiving the treatment from Dr Ella was an |
| is not always true, but is true most of the time. | | | | experience I'll always remember. |
| One of my patients is in the hospital for pre-term labor | | | | She was old. |
| prevention. She used her call bell to call out, and said | | | | She was literally carried to the treatment table by two |
| she was in excruciating pain. | | | | of her attendants, one on each side of her. |
| She said she felt like her vagina was in flames. | | | | But when she arrived at the table,she straightened up, |
| Here, I said, come towards me on your right side | | | | stood by herself, placed her powerful hands on my |
| facing those windows. | | | | back, and began her magic. |
| Then I did the Mechano-Magic with a little Matrix | | | | Mechano-Magic. |
| Energetics thrown in (as taught by Richard Bartlett). | | | | From a child's perspective, this was amazing, potentially |
| After ten minutes, she was back to hooking a rug. | | | | terrifying, maybe a bit odd. |
| Within an hour, she had the rug hanging on the bulletin | | | | But I was mesmerized by this experience. |
| board in her room, and was starting on another project. | | | | Dr Ella was a healer of the highest order. |
| She didn't seem to put the pain relief and the | | | | Now only a few of us know how to do the treatment. |
| Mechano-Magic treatment together. But that's OK!! | | | | I teach my nurse healer friends, I practice on my |
| She didn't know what hit her, but pain relief was the | | | | patients, my husband and two dogs. |
| result. | | | | I go to the home of Dorthea Williams, who has since |
| And the baby lived another day inside her womb. | | | | passed, and exchange Mechano-Magic with her |
| Mechano-Magic was popular in the early 1900's in | | | | daughter almost every week. |
| America. Ella Kilgus originated the treatment and she | | | | This has improved my technique. |
| opened her first clinic in Newark, New Jersey. | | | | Mechano-Magic must not die with the few of us who |
| I've seen pictures of this clinic, with long, sprawling | | | | know how to do it. |
| porches, balconies, long green lawns. | | | | I can only hope that this treatment will realize an |
| The patients came for Mechano-Magic, ate healthy | | | | exciting renaissance now, in the twenty-first century! |
| food, and relaxed under old growth oaks, sometimes | | | | The Internet is the vehicle. |
| for weeks at a time. | | | | Time is of the essence. |