SPIRITUAL HEALING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 519, 28 May 1909, Page 2

SPIRITUAL HEALING.

JO BE INVESTIGATED BY THE BRITISH MEDICAL 'ASSOCIATION, '• . ' Wo understand (says tho "Guardian," tho U ? n , jDttrntl) tho British ,v rn nit! Vi ltloh , «PPoiht«d a committee d consider the subject of spiritual heali™. r fir^r*"• h "M nt 21.500 tod!: « I men ijrMtisißE. in variom parts of the Bri- b !! 3!"' jf ra»jority of Bri- , fl j ih roistered] medical'practitioners. Its in- *' Vnr.nl,™ 'O'ttor is;■ of eottrre,-tho'interest <* W?„i 7 n 'by 6U ? h * '» »«r subject A ectinß the prevention, diagnosis, or treat- bi cnt of.phvsica or mental di«ord«rt. Tho ei n \ st ' on * obviously arising for consideration by y ch a. committee are, to what extent the pro- £ ' v;u? W ti T- !Uoh "J^ 1 , «» Spiritual Heal- S Li^-S* 3 "??' orl Vehic neJini can bo 1* ?£. the cateiory of those natural l ? rocs which it is he ordinary business of s * Mnbsrs. of the medical profession to ■ study, g< n how far they to bo regarded as duo Mtraaatural agencies wMc-h. mii?ht be held N Do outside the ordinary province of tho doc- di :, aim as regards the practice of methods of th o latter order what is to bo their relation to ] lr dso which fall within tho ordinary ranee Of „t sdical practitioners. The association has eon- SJ Icred it worth whilo to undflrtnko from the ittlool side an investigation into these qtics- s« ins, in which it has already gratifying assur- ?T oes of co-operation from tho leaders in the •>'■ jffious world who have given special atten- of ..jh to tho eubjoot, ■, tr