Still, the possession is cherished, and it adds enormously to the spice and variety of life to know that men of great intelligence, for example, my good friend, Dr.James J.Walsh of New York, believe in the miracles of Lourdes.( 24) Only a few weeks ago, the Bishop of London followed with great success, it is said, the practice of St.James.It does not really concern us much--as Oriental views of disease and its cure have had very little influence on the evolution of scientific medicine--except in illustration of the persistence of an attitude towards disease always widely prevalent, and, indeed, increasing.

Nor can we say that the medicine of our great colleague, St.Luke, the Beloved Physician, whose praise is in the Gospels, differs so fundamentally from that of the other writings of the New Testament that we can claim for it a scientific quality.

The stories of the miracles have technical terms and are in a language adorned by medical phraseology, but the mental attitude towards disease is certainly not that of a follower of Hippocrates, nor even of a scientifically trained contemporary of Dioscorides.( 25) (24) Psychotherapy, New York, 1919, p.

79, "I am convinced that miracles happen there.

There is more than natural power manifest." (25) See Luke the Physician, by Harnack, English ed., 1907, and W.K.Hobart, The Medical Language of St.Luke, 1882.
CHINESE AND JAPANESE MEDICINE CHINESE medicine illustrates the condition at which a highly intellectual people may arrive, among whom thought and speculation were restricted by religious prohibitions.