James Braid (surgeon), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

James Braid (surgeon)

Scottish surgeon, hypnotist, and hypnotherapist

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1795

Place of Birth: Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Mar-1860

Profession: physician, surgeon, hypnotist, hypnotherapist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

James Braid (19 June 1795 – 25 March 1860) was a Scottish surgeon and "gentleman scientist".
He was a significant innovator in the treatment of club-foot and an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
He is regarded by many as the first genuine "hypnotherapist" and the "Father of Modern Hypnotism". Although Braid believed that hypnotic suggestion was a valuable remedy in functional nervous disorders, he did not regard it as a rival to other forms of treatment, nor wish in any way to separate its practice from that of medicine in general.
He held that whoever talked of a "universal remedy" was either a fool or a knave: similar diseases often arose from opposite pathological conditions, and the treatment ought to be varied accordingly.
— John Milne Bramwell (1910)