• Medicine linked to religious healing (priest physicians: Egypt, Monks)
• Socrates: The great error of the day is in the treatment of the human body,... that physicians separate the mind from the body...therefore you must begin with curing the mind"
• "How far does an inclination of the mind influence the bio-chemical healing process?"..."laugh and grow fat", "worry and wither"
• Functional vs organic (die from organic not functional)... A Neurosis: "faith, belief, that has made them ill...and it is a faith, belief which will make them whole again"
• No doubt that the attitude of the mind, furthers the process of nature's healing....hope based on religion may be the most powerful in incurable conditions (alone supply the needed fortitude, serenity)
• Attitude of MD important: comfort, inspire courage, better others

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