There are several specific lines along which medical research should be continued, as the data already available are extremely promising. J. F. Woods, for instance, recommended hypnosis for lowering temperature in rheumatic fever, pleurisy and pneumonia. It may be used also to prevent arterio-sclerosis, whenever its development is due in part to constipation or gastric disorders. O. G. Wetterstrand contended that no remedy exerts so soothing an influence on the dying person as hypnotic suggestion. A. Munthe had an extensive practice along these lines and was able to report that "even more striking is the beneficial effect of this method in the most painful of all operations, as a rule still to be endured without anaesthesia-Death. What it was granted to me to do for many of our dying soldiers during the last war is enough to make me thank God for having had this powerful weapon in my hands.
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