MIND CURES

Evening Star, Issue 17720, 22 July 1921, Page 4

MIND CURES

DISCUSSED BY MEDIOAI CONFERENCE.

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LONDON, July 20. (Received July 22, at 1.30 a.m.) Tho cure of pain and disease by the mind instead of medicine found distinguished advocates at the British Medical Association’s Conference.

Prpfessor George Robertson gave instances in which mental suggestion not only cured disease, but was able to produce ailments—for example, blisters. He admitted that meet of the cures related to “ borderland coses,” in which melancholia was foremost. Professor Robertson and others stressed the point that greater attention should bo paid to morai 'and mental uures._ Many medicines ought to be thrown into the eeu. Dr Helen Boyle, a specialist m borderland cases, urged the employment of similar treatment in domestic affairs. Tne doctors ought to be empowered temporarily to separate and wives to obviate more drastic judicial orders, A. and N. Z. Cable.