Some pioneers, notably Dr. William S. Kroger, a psychiatrically-oriented obstetrician and gynecologist who limits his practice to hypnotherapy, believe hypnosis is a conviction phenomenon which produces results that parallel the phenomena produced at Lourdes and other religious healing shrines.
"A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis"
Melvin Powers
And then he was a gynecologist.
"Mary Wollaston"
Henry Kitchell Webster
She went from him to a gynecologist, who considered her headache as owing to causes for which his specialty had the remedies.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)