Article September 28, 1899 Issue

Testimony of an Electrician

BY E. T. B.

Christian Science was first brought to my notice when I was in the practice of medical electricity, attending an elderly lady whose daughter was under the care of a celebrated surgeon, and suffering from a severe and aggravated condition of sore nipples after child-birth. Proud flesh had set in, and all the remedies known to materia medica were tried and found wanting. I, too, had searched among my friends of the profession for a "balm," if indeed one could be found, but alas! with no better result.

This lady in some way heard of Christian Science, discharged her medical attendant, and sent for a Scientist, and in one or two treatments the cure was effected. I was told of this, and was very much surprised to hear that some fake, as I then supposed, had succeeded where science, so-called, had failed.

I was too busy with my practice to stop to investigate this curious treatment that had wrought a wonder, "in a day and a night," but went on trying as best I could to alleviate the sufferings of poor humanity by drugs, potions, plasters, electricity, and numerous other therapeutics that man had devised for the cure of disease.

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