Article April 28, 1906 Issue

Prayers and Drugs

Toledo (O.) Blade

The declaration of Dr. J. F. Baldwin of Columbus, before the temperance committee of the senate, interest every one. Dr. Baldwin said that "nineteen twentieths of all the cases a doctor is called upon to treat would get well without a doctor."

It is very refreshing to hear so frank a declaration from a man of such eminence in his profession as is Dr. Baldwin. The discussion was upon amending the Stockwell bill to allow Christian Scientists to accept money for their prayers for the sick.

There were present some thirty physicians in opposition to the amendment. It is hard to see how these gentlemen could justify their position of opposition when Dr. Baldwin, one of the spokesmen, declared that "prayer would be as good as anything for these people. It is my experience," he added, "that many doctors are using remedies with the utomost confidence which I am satisfied are utterly useless and many times possibly harmful."

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