A MEDICAL “MIRACLE.”

Shannon News, 25 November 1924, Page 3

A MEDICAL “MIRACLE.”

strange hospital STORY.

LONDON., Noy. 21

If some of the cures carried out at London hospitals eventuated in a enuron they would be haded as miracles, says Dr. Philip Inman, superintendent of the .Charing Cross Hospital.

A' woman who had been paralysed lor 17 years, was bedridden add helpless, and who could not feed herself, was recently admitted to the hospital. Specialists examined her and found nothing organically wrong. She. was taken out of bed and walked with the aid of two nurses. The next day she walked with the aid of one nurse, and was completely cured m a fortnight. Tile fact was that the patient hau simply lost faith in herself. The restoration of a patient’s faith is the part of every doctor’s duty. Faithhealing 'is merely the utilisation of the will to recover.”-

Dr. Inman’s draws to the danger of missions "like Mr J. M. Hiicksoin’s, owing to the severe depression experienced by hundreds of patients whose hopes of a cure, are raised but not fulfilled.