Spiritual healing : report of a clerical and medical committee of inquiry into spiritual, faith and mental healing.

  • Clerical and Medical Committee of Inquiry into Spiritual, Faith, and Mental Healing.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Spiritual healing : report of a clerical and medical committee of inquiry into spiritual, faith and mental healing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    hopeless. Instantaneously cured by imposi- tion of hands. I have evidence of the diagnosis from her doctor [not produced]. 3. Two cures of Epileptic men. 4. A case of Conical Cornea. No medical evidence. Nearly half the cases I have treated in the last ten years have been mental. I have had no abso- lute failures, but there are a great many cases where the physical has not been healed, but the Spiritual has. I have had three or four cases that died (including two cancer cases), but in each case it was not so much death as a translation, and pain was removed. 7.—I would always rather work with the medi- cal man, but there are cases which have been given up by the doctor. I have sometimes worked alone, but I think medical aid should be used with the Spiritual. I aim more deliberately at the Spiritual than the bodily healing, but I think there should be combination between clergy and doctors. Mr. FitzGerald thought that everyone should strive to ascertain by experiment if they possessed this Gift of Healing. He, himself, felt power going forth from him, and some stated that they had seen rays emanating from his hands as he placed them on patients. He did not, however, think the imposition of hands was essential, as he had to treat many cases at a distance.