Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank.
- Francis Graham Crookshank
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![that, when confronted with cases of cancer or of tuberculosis in an advanced stage, for example, the spiritualistic practitioners have either to wash their hands like Pilate—or to declare that the faith exhibited is insufficient for obtaining the result desired. At the same time, however, I am inclined to believe that what even a pathologist would call a case of organic disease may sometimes be cured by what we call psychological change. It is not good enough—to use a vulgarism—to say that, because a case is cured after a visit to Lourdes, it was never a case of organic disease ! To speak thus is to beg the whole question. Let me put it this way. When an unexpectedly good result is obtained after the ad¬ ministration of a simple drug in a confirmed and seemingly hopeless case, many surgeons and physicians will say : “ Oh, yes ! But was it not the effect of suggestion ? The point is that the case recovered. To say “ Suggestion ” explains nothing. We might, with greater justification, say “ Suggestion ” [26]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
