Article September 7, 1899 Issue

A Judge's Decision

Boston Traveler

A Chicago judge has imposed a fine of one hundred dollars and costs on a faith curist on conviction of violating the medical statute and in administering to Mrs. Anneta Flanders, who died under the faith "divine-healing" treatment. The Dowie treatment comprises the laying on of hands. The court held that under the law these healers must resort only to spiritual and mental means of treating the sick. When material means are added the state law governing the practice of medicine is violated. To the faith healer even the ordinary means to assist nature are denied hereafter, because the court held that all that a physician or surgeon did was to assist nature. This is certainly an original and interesting decision.

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