"FAITH-HEALING"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 8, 10 July 1923, Page 8

"FAITH-HEALING"

A DOCTOR'S VIEWS

ADDRESS TO ROTARIANS.

■ _ A remarkable'address .on "Faith Healing" was given at the Rotary Club luncheon to-day by Dr. Arnold Tzard. Eotariau W. E. Herbert presided. Dr. Izard said that it had.been known lor a. considerable time that all conditions^ the hu-nan body that were caused by suggestion could be cured by suggestion. If was essential first of all for i a faith healer to create an atmosphere of curing. That was done by newspaper propaganda, by his previous reputation and by services such as suitable lwmns and addresses. People who suffered "from neurasthenia or kindred diseases, and especially those .who might be termed border-line cases, would be well advised to keep away from faith healers, as they were likely to do themselves a great deal more harm than good. Neurasthenia was a form of fatigability, if he might us* the term, and robbed men of all their essential vttahty During the war there was a great wastip of manhood as a Jesuit of shell-shock, which was caused ny a conflict of primitive instincts in the sub-conscious mind Human beings v.er»governed by three main instincfs-sex Sn n T u rfuT' a vion' and nutrition stinct-the herd instinct, by which they X 6 nfcro'led- ■F " instance, a man who did not conform to-the rule of the mob and take his hat off to a lady in the street was treated by his fellows £ nn outcast. After giving in _ feS-new . where .. there . had - been a nad IVlf '^-consciou. mindThich had lesulted m great mental anei«h ellSlI C t el7° fe, IT- ed t0 llle «»se oT the shell-shocked soldier. Shell shock was Sf of aH° Ut V ■HP »«««* inZ mmd of the soldier. His training told him that he tm ls t stand up to the stiff est bamge without flinching, but his instinct of self r preservation tofd him that it would be a wiser .policy to run as fas m ho could. That was the conflict in ) the man * mind; It was better that the ' ma,, should be wounded, for in no case where a man was wounded did shellshock result. The reason of tins was because his mind was quite satisfied Ho was satisfied in his own mind that he had done his bit, and he was' also satisfied in his own mind that the Red Cross men would be along shortly to look after him Botli the instincts, were satisfied. Ihe mmd could not stand mental anguish. . Many returned soldiers returned to their homes suffering from all kinds of fears, and the only. Wav they could be cured was by tracing the"source '< of the foundation of the fears and eradicating them in that way. The speaker went on to refer to the question of forgetfulness, and ?!■' \ a t things large and small which had.heen put on one side were always likely to recur, as the sub-conscious mind was dynamic. It never stopped working. " Everything trivial was recorded in the sub-conscious mind. It might be possible by me.ins of faith-healing or suggestion, to effect a cure, but there could be no gurantec that there would not be a recurrence of the trouble. If. was the sub-conscious mind that guided our whole. lives. and moulded our characters.

Dr. I'/ard was accorded a vote of thanks for his address.