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.

Soul forces are the most important. The spirit builds the body.
Strength springs from joy. Efficiency is achieved despite care, fear,
and uncertainty--We speak here of thymogenetic automatism or the
automatism of harmony ("thymogenetische automatismus oder
stimmungsautomatismus"). The autonomous nervous system achieves, under
the influence of joy, the expansion of the blood vessels in skin and
muscle.... The muscular activity incited by joy means the use of
calories and stimulation of appetite. Muscular contraction pulls and
draws at the bones, ligaments are tensed, breathing deepend, appetite
increased ... A child influenced by the daily exercise of joy develops
physically strong and powerful. ... The Soul care (Seele Sorge) of the
practical doctor is his most significant daily task alongside of
prescriptions and manipulative dexterity.

Soul-care in the medical sense is a concern for the wishes, hopes and
fears of the patient, the considered participat