The Earth’s Healing Powers

Professor Robb uses the story of his work with shell-shocked British soldiers during WW2 to stress the affinity between medicine and agriculture. He states that "we men of the land have known for centuries of the healing power of the earth". "Positive human health means complete physical, mental and spiritual harmony between man and his total environment". "The effect of moving the men out of their military headquarters of barren sand into their new agricultural environment of beauty, peace and tranquility, was electric