Editorial September 3, 1904 Issue

As to Diagnosis

M. with contributions from M.

Some of those opponents of Christian Science who have criticised the healing accomplished by this system have done so upon the supposition that the persons who have been healed were victims of their own imagination, and that the serious nature of the ailments from which they suffered was not substantiated by the diagnoses of physicians. As a matter of fact, the greater portion of those who have been healed through Christian Science have adopted this system only after having been under the care of a number of physicians, and the diagnoses in all such cases, as they are reported in our columns, are those of physicians, and in some cases, of several physicians.

In this issue we present the testimony of a man who for many years "was actively engaged in the practice of medicine,—being a graduate from a leading medical university of the regular school," and who had also taken two post-graduate courses. This gentleman tells of the healing of his wife through Christian Science of an affection of the bronchial tubes which had baffled the efforts of eminent men in the medical profession. He tells, also, of his own healing of chronic malaria with which he had suffered for twenty years, as well as of frequent attacks of acute laryngitis.

There seems to be no question as to the correctness of the diagnosis in these cases, and this testimony is sufficient answer to the criticism to which we have referred, especially as it comes from a man who, before the healing power of Christian Science was made manifest to him, was "strongly prejudiced against Christian Science, and a firm believer in medical practice."

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