MENTAL SUGGESTION
ADVOCATES AT BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
London, July ‘2O,
The 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 exanlple, blisters. He 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 and u\ental cures. Many medicines ought to be 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.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2308, 28 July 1921, Page 4
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129MENTAL SUGGESTION Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2308, 28 July 1921, Page 4
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