CURE OF DISEASE
EFFICACY OF MENTAL SUGGESTION. (Rec. July 21, 1.15 n.m.) London, July 20. Tho cure of pain and disease by the mind instead of medicine found distinguished advocates at the British Medical Association conference. Professor George Robertson gave instances in which mental suggestion had not only cured disease, but was able to produce ailments: for example, blisters. ITo admitted that most of the cures related to borderland cases in which melancholia. was foremost. Professor Robertson and others stressed the point that greater attention should be paid to moral Kind mental cures. Many medicines ought to bo thrown into the sea. Dr. Helen Boyle, a specialist in borderland cases, urged the employment. of similar treatment in domestic affairs. Doctors ought to be empowered temporarily to separate husbands and wives to obviate more drastic judicial orders. — United Service.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 255, 22 July 1921, Page 5
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138CURE OF DISEASE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 255, 22 July 1921, Page 5
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