Letters to the Editor
PSYCHIATRY AND SPIRITUAL HEALING
$1R,—Your contributor on Psychiatry and Spiritual Healing has pointed out that Wesley $Peculated on the use of common physical and psychological factors in mental illness. So ar as physical agents go, speculate is perhaps too mild a term. Wesley in his book on Primitive Physic advocates the use of physical Methods in no uncertain manner. He writes:
" When the person finds an uncommon Oppression, let him take a large spoonful of the Valerian root. N.B.—The true wild valerian has no bad smell: If it have, cats have urined upon it, which they will do if they Can do it. But I am firmly persuaded there is no remedy in nature, for nervous disorders of every kind, comparable to the proper and constant use of the electrical machine."— :Yours faithfully,
99 Harley Street, W.1
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