dministration of the Medecines, and in the various Cases:
wherein his Judgment may be safely depended upon in all
things, so far as he follows my Instructions. And Hope he may
in all things answer the Confidence that may be reposed in
him.
C. WITT.
GERMANTOWN, Febr. 20, 1758.

Following is a Prayer for a Dyspeptic, drawn up by an adherent of
Christian Science:

Holy Reality, Blessed Reality, believing that Thou art
everywhere present, we believe that Thou art in this patient's
stomach, in every fibre, in every cell, in every atom; that
Thou art the sole, only Reality of that stomach. Heavenly,
Holy Reality, Thou art not sick, and therefore nothing in this
universe was ever sick, is now sick, or can be sick. We know,
Father and Mother of us all, that there is no such thing as a
really diseased stomach; that the disease is the Carnal
Mortal Mind given over to the World, the Flesh and the Devil;
that the mortal mind is a twist, a distortion, a false
attitude, the _Hamartia_ [+hamartia+, sin] of Thought.

Help us to stoutly affirm, with our hand in your hand, with
our eyes fixed on Thee, that we never had Dyspepsia, that we
will never have Dyspepsia, that there is no such thing, that
there never was any such thing, that there never will be any
such thing. Amen.[239:1]

FOOTNOTES:

[239:1] _The Faith and Works of Christian Science._

APPENDIX

SOME NOTED IRREGULAR PRACTITIONERS

PARACELSUS

THEOPHRASTUS BOMBASTUS VON HOHENHEIM, commonly known as Paracelsus, was
born in 1493 at Maria Einsiedeln, near Zurich, Switzerland. When he was
nine years old, his father, who was a reputable physician, removed his
residence to Carinthia. Paracelsus received instruction in chemistry
from the Abbot Trithemius, a Benedictine monk, and then investigated
mining methods, and learned the physical properties of minerals, ores,
and metals. He also studied at universities in France, Germany, and
Italy. Quite early in his career he developed a taste for a Bohemian
mode of life and is reported to have gained a livelihood by
psalm-singing, astrological prescriptions, chiromancy, and even by the
practice of the Black Art. He was also keen in acquiring information
about popular remedies and nostrums, from travelling mountebanks,
barbers, old women, and pretenders of a