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ordinary theories of medical practice, I began to fear a crisis, or aggra- 

 vation of symptoms, from the prolonged use of these remedies, and 

 told the patient so; but she was unwilling to give up the medicine 

 when she was recovering. It then occurred to me to give her un- 

 medicated pellets for a while, and watch the result. I did so, and she 

 continued to gain as before. Finally, she said she would give up her 

 medicine for one day, and risk the effect. After trying this she in- 

 formed me that she could get along two days without globules, but on 

 the third day she again suffered, and was relieved by taking them. 

 She went on in this way, taking the unmedicated pellets, with occa- 

 sional visits from me, — employing no other means, — and was cured. 



" When I learned of a verity that mind, and not matter, effects the 

 cure, I had such qualms of conscience over attributing the cure to 

 matter, that I gave up a respectable profession, and heard the soft 

 impeachment that I had lost my wits. A change of belief changes 

 all the physical symptoms, and determines a case for better or for 

 worse. Nerves carry a changed report according to the changed 

 belief. If mortal mind says, ' I am deaf and blind,' it will be so 

 without an injured nerve. Everything opposed to this fact (as I 

 learned in metaphysics) makes man, who is immortal in understand- 

 ing, mortal in belief (pp. 201, 202, 203). 



"All suffering and disease are forms of thought, appearing upon 

 the body by the consent of the mind. You may scoff at my declara- 

 tion that mortal mind produces lung complaints, and all other 

 diseases, but I repeat it: Sickness is a growth of illusion, spring- 

 ing from a seed of thought,— either your own or another's. If 

 pain is as real as the absence of pain, both must be immortal (182). — 

 One disease is no more unreal than another. All disease is the 

 result of hallucination, and can carry its ill-effects no further than 

 mortal mind maps out. Christian Science finds the decided type of 

 acute disease, however severe, quite as ready to yield as the less-dis- 

 tinct type and chronic form of disease. It handles the most malig- 

 nant contagion with perfect assurance. If you fail to succeed in any 

 case, it is because you have not demonstrated the rule and proven 

 the principle. 



"Few will deny that death has been occasioned by fright. This 

 proves that every function of the body, its entire organism, is governed 

 ]) J the human mind; unless this mind yields to the Divine Mind, and 

 is saved from itself (188).— I have discovered disease in the human 

 mind, and recognized the patient's fear of it, many weeks before the 

 s o-called disease made its appearance in the body. I am never mis- 

 taken in my scientific diagnosis of disease (194).— Metaphysical heal- 



