Mr. Braid appears likely to have justice done to him at last. Some years ago we pointed out the important bearing of hypnotism on mental disorders in this Journal, in an article entitled “Artificial Insanity.” Subsequently, in 1872, the writer, in his work on the “Influence of the Mind upon the Body,” insisted on the interest and influence of hypnotism in mental therapeutics. The progress of scientific truth, if certain, is rather slow. It has taken some forty years for the British Medical Association to repair the error then made in refusing to hear a paper by Mr. Braid on his discoveries, when it met at Manchester.—[D. H. T.]
Remarks ON THE PLACE OF THE HOSPITAL IN A CIVILIZED COMMUNITY: Made in Opening a Discussion at a Meeting of the Sunderland Division of the British Medical Association, March 30th, 1911