LOST FAITH

Southland Times, Issue 19394, 7 November 1924, Page 9

LOST FAITH

A MEDICAL ‘'MIRACLE.” (Sun Special). LONDON, October 21. If some of the cures carried out at London hospitals eventuated in a church they would be hailed as miracles, says Dr Philip Inman, superintendent of the Charing Cross Hospital. A woman who had been paralysed for 17 years, was bedridden and 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 in a fortnight. Dr Inman said “the woman had simply lost faith in herself. The restoration of the patient’s faith is part of every doctor’s duty. Faith-healing is merely the utilisation of the will to recover.” Dr Inman draws attention to the danger of missions like J. M. Hickson's, owing to the severe depression experienced by hundreds of patients whose hopes of a cure are raised but not fulfilled.