Spiritual healing : report of a Clerical and Medical Committee of Inquiry into Spiritual, Faith, and Mental Healing.

Date:
1914
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    ants as having been caused by the friction of the patient’s wet finger. This patient suffered also from hysterical loss of sensation in the throat. The mental effect of treatment by the Spiritual healer led to a cessation of the self- inflicted wounds and to the disappearance of the other hysterical symptoms. The illness had been reported to the Committee as “ a very rare and incurable disease with partial insanity.” The patient had been treated as an out- patient at one of the London hospitals and was shown at two of the Medical Societies. An account of this case of Dermatitis Arte- facta will be found in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dermatological Section, October 19th, I9ii,page 10. The Committee hope in the future to continue to collect evidence, and will be glad to have further cases brought to their notice. They would point out that for a satisfactory investigation of any case the following evi- dence is necessary ;—
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