In cases of this kind, cured in this way, there is always needed a period, I won't say as long as, but proportionate to, the period during which the disease had been developing and advancing.

I forget the exact proportions now, but I think, so far as I remember, that at least two-thirds of the time is required for recovery by suggestion as was occupied by the growth of the disease.

Take _lupus_.

That certainly belongs to the class I'm speaking of.

Well, lupus has been cured in mental laboratories, but never instantaneously or anything like instantaneously." "Go on, father." "Finally, there are those physical states that have practically nothing to do directly with the nervous system at all.