VITAL FORCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 December 1913, Page 2

VITAL FORCE.

Vital Force appears to be a compound of the moral and physical blended in due proportions, livery doctor knows that unless hw patient has his heart set upon getting well, unless he brings to boar the powers of bis mind to aid the, physician s efforts, drugs can only be or temporary beueS-f.- If the patient is apathetic listlivs, despairing, allowing himself to drift helplessly,; if he becomes disheartened or superstitious about Jus condition, tho physician is placed at a m-eat disadvantage. . But if the doctor he something more than a materialist; if ho has, himself, a sympathetic heart and niBieht, he will know how to combat the moral weakness. Ho will know how to place his own strong, willing force of character under the drooping despondency o his patient, and secure a rally which will re-enforce and sustain the good efforts of his medicines. , I His 'knowledge of- human nature and life enables such a physician to readily diagnose the lacking moral element. It' may be hope or faith, courage, belief, resolution. Whatever the patient needs in the groundwork of his moral nature, the true physician skilfully supplies by suggestion, by tactful appeal, and indirect assurances. Ho radiates from his presence a healthy and contagious moral atmosphere very stimulating to the subjective mind "of the patient.