ABSTRACT
Faith generally plays a particular role as a factor favoring suggestion. One vivid example of the influence of faith are the recent exploits in America of the German immigrant Schlater who, starting as a shoemaker in Denver, imagined that his mission was to educate the entirety of America in evangelic principles. Subsequently, during the later passion for metallic therapy, some physicians were content to explain this case in terms of the effect of the metal, whereas it can be more easily explained in terms of the healing effect of faith. Some authors recognize that the healing effect of faith is restricted only to disorders dependent on ideas as, for example, does Reynolde. Nevertheless, there is no good reason to assume that the healing effect of faith is reducible only to suggestion or auto-suggestion. A person who does not believe cannot rely on remedy through faith.
