[Footnote 124:  Ibid., p. 73.]

[Footnote 125:  My New Order, pp. 195-196.]

[Footnote 126:  Huber, Verfassungsrecht des grossdeutschen Reiches (Hamburg, 1939), p. 31.]

[Footnote 127:  Ibid., p. 32.]

NATIONAL-SOCIALISM AND MEDICINE
Address by Dr. F. Hamburger to German Medical Profession.  Translated
(in part) from Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 1939, No. 6.

Medical men must beware of pride, a pride which is certainly wide-spread and which leads to the disparagement of the practical doctor and medical layman, and then further to the disparagement of the craft of nature healers.  The practical doctor and the nature healer on the one hand tend towards an understandable disparagement of medical science and analysis and, on the other hand, tend towards superficiality.  The superficiality of the opponents of science is, however, as unhappy an affair as the pride of the so-called scientists, but the one group should not demean the other.  This would lead to successful cooperation to the advantage of the sick and health of the community.

Academic medicine and nature healers generally have one thing in common, that they underestimate the significance of automatism and suggestion.  In this regard there is an absence in both camps of the necessary criticism and clarity.  Successes are noted with specific methods without any confirmation as to whether or not suggestion and faith alone have not produced the improvement in the patient.

National-Socialism is the true instrument for the achievement of the health of our people.  National-Socialism is concerned with the great significance of inherited traits and with the insight into the working of spiritual forces upon the body, with the study of the power of custom and, along with this, of the significance of education and nurture. (Hamburger here complains about the luxurious arrangement for dealing with the mentally ill in contradistinction to the neglect of Folk-health.  This he attributes to the era of liberalism with its stress upon the single individual.  He here also attacks the Socialism of Social Democracy and its conception of a Community of Equal Men.  This is a false Socialism.)

So we scientists and doctors simply and soberly affirm the principle of strength of faith and the nationalist socialist principle of Positive Christianity which does not prevent us from the inspired consideration of natural and divinely willed phenomena.  We doctors must never forget the fact that the soul rules the body.