Psychology of the Tuberculous from the Chest Physician's View Point

To my reading, therefore, this interest in the psychology of the tuberculous is evidence of the wish of our profession to return to the study of man in his wholeness as he was seen by the early Christian physician, and was treated in the first hospitals of the Christian Church. The priest and the doctor long ago took separate roads in their approach to the complete man, the priest concentrating on the soul, the doctor on the body, each more and more jealously retaining his part of the whole, and only seldom meeting on what has now been recognized as common ground for both, the mind of man, through which he translates his spiritual experiences and his bodily reactions. I believe the conjunction of their forces holds great promise for the future ; it will avoid for both the dangers of unscientific quackery and the mass hysteria of bogus "spiritual healing"; and make possible a further and welcome advance in the field of preventive medicine.