Article September 28, 1907 Issue

PRIMITIVE HEALING POWER

Daily Telegraph

There are two cases which have recently been mentioned in the correspondence in your columns to which, inasmuch as they deal with matters of fact, I should like to be permitted to refer.

The first is that of Major Whyte, who broke his spine in the hunting-field, and who was treated in Christian Science, but not until medical aid had been employed in vain. I knew Major Whyte personally, and though I was not in any way concerned with his case, saw him frequently, and he told me, not once, but repeatedly, what he told other people, that he had suffered tortures during the entire time he was under medical treatment, that he only turned to Christian Science as a last resource, and that from the moment he received treatment in Christian Science all his pain vanished, and his life, which had been one of torment, became one of perfect peace.

The other case is that of the little Chisholm boy, who died of diphtheria. Dr. Holloway says quite distinctly that "probably antitoxin would have prevented the paralysis and the heart failure, but, whether or no, the boy eventually died, absolutely from want of medical advice." Now Dr. Birdwood, a man of immense experience, who was one of the witnesses called at the trial, declared that antitoxin treatment would have been quite useless, and that the case was one of those fatal from the very beginning. Nor is it true that the boy was allowed to go about after he was known to ill. There is nothing about which Christian Scientists are more particular than in recognizing the fears of their neighbors with respect to infection. They regard absolutely as their duty to fulfil the Golden Rule, and to do unto others as they would be done by. And the moment an infectious disease appears in their household it is reported in the usual way, and the usual precautions are adopted.

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