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To: Brumar89 who wrote (66654)	3/23/2015 8:22:54 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

A marvellous history of the battle of Science and Medicine against the demon theory of mental illness. It took many centuries for brave and good men and women to break through the walls of primitive superstitions and bring Reason and Sense to the diagnosis and treatment of brain disease. Message 29995900 Of course, millions of people still think the bible is factual and "wise"! YIKES! Mind boggling, isn't it?? This belief took firm hold upon the strongest men. The case of St. Gregory the Great is typical. He was a pope of exceedingly broad mind for his time, and no one will think him unjustly reckoned one of the four Doctors of the Western Church. Yet he solemnly relates that a nun, having eaten some lettuce without making the sign of the cross, swallowed a devil, and that, when commanded by a holy man to come forth, the devil replied: "How am I to blame? I was sitting on the lettuce, and this woman, not having made the sign of the cross, ate me along with it."[101]