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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 249, 15 July 1919, Page 5

INCURABLES" CURED ——*

SUCCESSES OF PSYCHO-THERAPY. Some remarkable cases of cure by phycho-therapy were related by .Lieuten-ant-Colonel A. I\ Hurst, Xt.A.M.C.,, officor in charge of tlio Soale-Hayne Military Hospital, at a meeting at the Central Hull, Westminster. ~: :i 1 'J'horo were ninny thonsancJs of pensioners, lie said, who were suffering from conditions which were completely and. rapidly curable under favourable conditions l>v the proper methods of treatment, One wise lie leferred to was that; of a man who had been blown- up three years before anil had been rendered paralytic and completely mute. At the Seale-Hayno Hospital ho was taught to walk and talk, ; and within a week ho went homo completely cured. Another man, who had been blown up, became totally blind. His condition also : was not due to any permanent damage. ' Mo had been granted his full pension, his case being regarded as hopeless. ITo went before several boards, but thev failed to rocegnise the true nature of his condition. Four years later lie came under a doctor at Plymouth, who recognised that there was no organic cause for his blindness. He. too, was sent to the hospital, and within 2-i hours ho could see perfectly. have not the slightest doubt," said Colonel Hurst, "that there aro hundreds, if not thousands, of peoplo similarly suffering from very serious in--1 capacity which 15 completely curable." : j During last year at the hospital they ! dealt with over 100 cases of men who wero • unable to speak above a whisper. Some } had been under treatment previously for !us long as three years. Without ex- ! ccption all were cured at a single sitting, i sometimes in two or three minutes." An : enormous number of men had been in- ; valided for epilepsy. "Our conclusion," i declared Colonel Hurst, "is that tlio vast ' majority of, if not all cases of war ; epilepsy which have arisen during the j war with men who have never had fits ; ! before aro functional, and, beiug funcI tional, are curable."

A duel with swords, which was being fought at Genoa between (ho Marquis Centuriono and Count Maistretti, was interrupted after 45 minutes owing to the extreme exhaustion cf the principals, ! neither of whom, however, vns hit. The ! duel was concluded the following day, .the Marcuiis Centuriono being slightly i wounded in the arm. (Tho cnblo news In this issue, accredited to the London "Times" liaa appeared in that journal. L-ut only where expressly stated is suoii »nows the editorial opinion of *he ' XinnjE.')'