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ASTHMA
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Gasping for breath, unable to eat or sleep, the 60-year-old man lay in a Scottish hospital moaning: “The end is near. The end is near.” Doctors agreed; the patient was suffering from an intense, intractable form of bronchial asthma in which the contractions of the bronchial tubes become almost continuous and the lungs are starved for air. Antibiotics, Adrenalin, steroid hormones and oxygen had been given without effect. Finally, the University of Aberdeen’s Dr. A. H. C. Sinclair-Gieben took over. His specialty: hypnosis. Within ten minutes, the patient was
in a deep trance. Carefully and repeatedly, Psychiatrist Sinclair-Gieben
murmured: “Now you will find the wheezing stops— your
breathing becomes free and easy.” Last week, in the British
Medical Journal, Dr. Sinclair-Gieben reported the dramatic result:
“The wheezing stopped instantaneously. Hypnosis was reinforced
on alternate days for ten days, and for the first time in years the
patient was able to sleep throughout the night without any wheezing.
At the end of ten days he became elated … and danced a jig in
front of the ward patients to illustrate how fit and well he felt.”
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