she went without it [30]

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twenty-four hours she would have delirium--and in [1]
forty-eight hours cured her perfectly of this habit,
with no bad results, but with decided improvement in
health.

I have not yet made surgery one of the mental branches [5]
taught in my college; although students treat sprains,
contusions, etc., successfully. In the case of sprain of the
wrist-joint, where the regular doctor had put on splints
and bandages to remain six weeks, a student of mine
removed these appliances the same day and effected the [10]
cure in less than one week. Reference, Mrs. M. A. F----,
107 Eutaw Street, East Boston.

I agree with the Professor, that every system of medi-
cine claims more than it practises. If the system is Science,
it includes of necessity the Principle, which the learner [15]
can demonstrate only in proportion as he understands it.
Boasting is unbecoming a mortal's poor performances.
My Christian students are proverbially modest: their
works alone should declare them, since my system of medi-
cine is not generally understood. There are charlatans [20]
in "mind-cure," who practise on the basis of matter, or
human will, not Mind.

The Professor alludes to Paul's advice to Timothy.
Did he refer to that questionable counsel, "Take a little
wine for thy stomach's sake"? Even doctors disagree [25]
on that prescription: some of the medical faculty will
tell you that alcoholic drinks cause the coats of the stomach
to thicken and the organ to contract; will prevent the
secretions of the gastric juice, and induce ulceration,
bleeding, vomiting, death. [30]

Again, the Professor quotes, in justification of material
methods, and as veritable: "He took a bone from the

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side of Adam, closed up the wound thereof, and builded [1]
up the woman." (Gen. ii. 21.)

Here we have the Professor on the platform of Christian
Science! even a "surgical operation" that he says was
performed by divine power,--Mind alone constructing [5]
the human system, before surgical instruments were
invented, and closing the incisions of the flesh.

He further states that God cannot save the soul without
compliance to ordained conditions. But, we ask, have
those conditions named in Genesis been perpetuated in [10]
the multiplication of mankind? And, are the conditions
of salvation mental, or physical; are they bodily penance
and torture, or repentance and reform, which are the
action of mind?