Scientific literature is full also of isolated instances of successful treatment of other diseases; but such cases require further observation and verification. Anyway, the above list is long enough to give us a general idea as to the possibilities of hypnotic research and practice. Not being a physician and having made, consequently, few medical observations of my own, I shall limit myself to a single illustration. Several years ago I was closely associated with a distinguished scholar, Professor F., who suffered from a grave case of asthma. The disease took finally an acute form that threatened to interrupt a fruitful career. For months he was forced to abstain from all work and tiresome exercise, and still physicians failed to help. Then one day, as I was informed, he came across a Christian Scientist. I presume Dr. F. had despaired of medical assistance and was ready to try something new. People do become prone to be converted in the days of a health crisis. What transpired between the two, I do not exactly know. What is important here is that a prestige-and-faith relationship was evidently established between them, and suggestion was sufficient to effect a cure where medicine had failed to help. I regret only that the means of effecting it was not scientific.
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