SPIRITUAL HEALING

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IX, Issue 2571, 7 June 1909, Page 2

SPIRITUAL HEALING

INVESTIGATION BY THE DlilTlSl MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

We understand (says tho Guardian, the well-known Anglican Journal) that tlio Uritisli Medical Association has appointed ii commitko to consider tlio subject of spiritual healing. The association is a body of about 21,000 medical mon practising in various parts of tlio British Empire, and includes the majority of British regiscrcd medical practitioners. Its interest in the matter is. of course, tho interest naturally folt oy such a body in any subject affecting the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of physical or mental disorders. The questions obviously arising for consideration by such «. cominittco are,' to what oxton't the processes known by such names as

iritnal Healing, Faith Healing, or Psychic Jlealing can be brought within tin; category of those natural forces which it is tho ordinary business ol members of the medical profession to study, and how far thoy aro to bo regarded as duo to extranntural agencies which might be held lo be outside the ordinary province of the doctor; ami as regards the practice of methods •if the latter order, what is to be their relation to those which fall within the ordinary range of medical practitioners, The association has considered it worth while to undertake from the medical side an investication into these questions, in which it lias already gralilyiug assurances of co-operation lioin tho leaders in tlio religious world who have given special attention to tho sub,| eel.