Article September 7, 1899 Issue

Christian Science Explained

Carol Norton

Pittsburg (Pa) Dispatch

There are eighteen reasons, medical, religious, and legal why it is claimed that Christian Science is both Christian and Scientific.

First.—So-called regular medical practice, or allopathy, was preceded by many forms of medical vagaries and superstitions. The leech and bleeding, incantations and Indian medicine men, herbs, and all the crude phases of so-called heroic treatment marked the early steps of what is known as modern medicine. Allopathy has gone, and is going, through many stages of development and so-called progressive expansion. The history of medicine is the history of experiment, guessing, poisons, and misery. While the discovery of anaesthetics has undoubtedly decreased the amount of pain in the world simply by subjugating it, the direct causes of disease and bodily pain have never been brought within the range of destruction through either allopathy or homoeopathy. Incurable organic diseases are multiplying, and medicine receives its most pronounced criticism from its own representatives.

Second.—Allopathy was for a time considered regular, and as representative of scientific materia medica. The work of Hahnemann brought into positive existence the great theory of "like is cured by like," when straightway a great battle was precipitated and progressive homoeopaths were called quacks and irregulars, and social and professional ostracism for years accompanied all their work and effort. But homoeopathy had come to stay and remain with the race as one of the visible manifestations of a tendency toward metaphysical practice and the gradual elimination of the drug element in modern medicine.

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