FAITH HEALING.
A DOCTOR ON RATANA.
Wellington, April 27.
“Quacks and quackery and the credulity of the human mind” was the title of a lecture given by Dr. J. S. Elliott, under the auspices of the Red Cross at Wellington. The lecturer, referring to faith healing, said' that faith played a most important part in healing; there was nothing new to medical men about that. He believed in the efficacy of prayer; he believed it gave people peace and calmness that was conducive to their healing, but to tell him that all other proved means of healing were being neglected was the height of absurdity. Ratana, the Maori faith healer, was subsequently mentioned by a-speaker. In reply, Dr. Elliott remarked that it comes under the head of faith healing. We admit the value of faith healing for certain functional conditions. Regular medical practitioners knew the value of faith; we resort to it; we often have cases where people have been in great pain, and they have been given hypodermic injections of morphia, but they are sometimes given distilled water instead of morphia, but they think it is morphia and go to sleep. They are made to sleep on faith. There has been faith healing in all religions.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1921, Page 5
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