Article August 22, 1901 Issue

Christian Science and the Doctors

H. S. C.

Grand Rapids Sunday Democrat

Editor the Democrat.

Perhaps you can inform the public why it is that when a woman of the ripe age of eighty-six—who has for the last five years received no treatment other than that administered by Christian Scientists—"passes quietly away," it is considered necessary to call in the coroner? Also why, in the case of a healthy thirteen-year-old boy—who dies of lockjaw, despite of amputation and the efforts of near half a dozen doctors, as the result of a trifling finger-wound from Fourth of July powder—no coroner's investigation whatever is thought necessary? Had the lad Van Zee received Christian Science treatment, with fatal results, what a howl would have been set up. But, since he died secundum artem—i.e., from the anti-Christian Science view-point, no questions are asked.

Respectfully,
H. S. C.

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