Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics



The Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics Co. was a Nevada, Missouri-based sanitarium, mail-order concern, and publishing house, established by Sidney Abram Weltmer, its namesake. The institute was dedicated to the use, promotion, and teaching of Suggestotherapy (Weltmerism), the brand of hypnotic or magnetic healing devised by Weltmer.

Selected Publications

 * (iapsop.com)

Corporate News

 * &mdash; corporate purchase of Lake Park Springs, Iron Springs, and Atterbury tracts
 * &mdash; corporate increase of stock

Thompson Spree Killing (1917)
Louis Thompson, described as a patient of the Weltmer Institute, shot and killed Charles Janes, his attendant at a nearby boarding house, during the afternoon of 6 Apr. 1917, and then proceeded to the institute, where he threatened several office workers, before shooting a Prof. J. O. Crone and John Cooper. Janes and Cooper would die of their injuries.