Article May 18, 1899 Issue

From the Christian Science Department of the Florence (Col.) Daily Tribune

Any one will admit that a man can worry himself sick. Brain disease, insomnia, fevers, hysteria, insanity, and other like disorders are now recognized by the medical fraternity as the results of excessive worry, apprehension, or fear. In other words, their cause is mental. This is admitted by all rational people, regardless of medical affiliations or religious beliefs. It is so apparent that no physician's diploma is required to discover it. Now, if it be admitted that the condition of one's mind sometimes causes bodily sickness, is it unreasonable to look for a mental cause at the bottom of all diseases?

The disciples of materia medica have so long believed that physical effects come from physical causes that they are reluctant to admit any other diagnosis of disease as being correct. However, all doctors are not fossils or bigots, and one can note a marked tendency among the advanced members of the profession to give closer attention to the condition of the patient's mind, urging cheerfulness, calmness, hope, etc. Less medicine and more good cheer seem to characterize the methods of the most successful practitioners of to-day.

Christian Science cures, not by doctoring the body, but by treating the mind. It teaches conclusively that a mental cause is back of every discordant physical condition, and that ignorance of the law governing them is the reason that mankind has not heretofore recognized such causes. There causes are not always apparent. They are often deep-seated and of long standing, and it is only through the exercise of a higher power than that of the human mind that they are uncovered and destroyed in Christian Science.

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