1. In the judgment of W. D. C. Lewis, about 1,500 years in advance of his times, “for he placed the patient under the best conditions of light, temperature, food and quiet and insisted that all elements of an exciting nature be excluded. He denounced simple starvation, bleeding, chains, alcohol and excessive drug therapy.”
2. CastiglioniArturo: A History of Medicine, New York, Alfred Knopf, 1947, p. 258.
3. “Die Psychiatrie fiel in die Hande exorzisierender Priester und priesterlicher Hexenverfolger,” Ackerknecht, op. cit.
4. ZilboorgGregory: A History of Medical Psychology, New York, W. W. Norton and Co. p. 103.