Lyttleton Forbes Winslow's Obituary

"The newspapers report that Dr. Forbes Winslow died suddenly in London on Sunday last from a heart attack. He was in his seventieth year. Dr. Winslow, upwards of thirty years ago, made a statement to the effect that Spiritualism was driving people insane in America and filling the asylums of that country with its victims. This assertion was fully controverted at the time by the late Dr. Eugene Crowell, but it still does duty as a stock objection to Spiritualism in the pamphlets which are published by our opponents.

During recent years Dr. Winslow became convinced of the reality and value of hypnotism, and lectured for the Spiritualist societies at Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff. In reply to a question at Merthyr he publicly stated that while at the time that he made his assertion he honestly believed it to be true, he had since learned that he was mistaken and would not make any such statement now. He was a Vice-President of the Psycho-Therapeutic Society, and gave a lecture to its members two years ago last February, in which he said that vice and bad habits could be eradicated by the use of suggestion if the victim wished to be cured. The funeral took place yesterday, the 13th inst., at Barnes. "

From: "Light". June 14 1913