Article August 17, 1899 Issue

Christian Science and Contagious Diseases

Lewis B. Coates

The Salt Lake Herald

Christian Scientists are misrepresented on the subject of reporting contagion. I have advised families to report such cases. One of the leading Scientists in this city told me she recently refused to treat a family until they reported the case of contagion. Dr. Keough, the health commissioner, is in a position to know, and he very kindly states that with one or two exceptions Scientists have reported contagion.

Dr. Wilcox has well said that "we have had an epidemic of scarlet fever every fall for years, anyway." It is certainly an insidious form of persecution for any physician to seek to place the spread of this error on the neglect of Christian Scientists. The fact is that Christian Science is preventing the spread of contagion more than any other agency. As certainly as Christian Science has healed thousands, just so certain it has prevented other thousands from falling under contagious ailments.

Ignorance of mental therapeutics is no argument against it. This age is turning rapidly from matter to mind for cause and remedy. The growing popularity of Christian Science healing and of non-drugging healers is "the handwriting on the wall." Some of the methods of opposition adopted by the drugging systems would lead us to believe they have interpreted this prophecy, and see the gravity of the situation.

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