Article September 11, 1909 Issue

"Half the people of the present day only imagine that...

Buffalo (N. Y.) Commercial

"Half the people of the present day only imagine that they are ill, and the present fad of the medical profession in adding disease to disease has led many people to call in physicians where they would formerly have applied a little common sense and been well in a few days." So says a physician connected with a large hospital in Philadelphia. "In the present day the number of patients increase as the number of hospitals is made larger, while the hospital should follow the patients. We have people come in here every night with practically nothing wrong with them. It is the result of the 'medical craze,' and when a patient does come in with something really the matter he has worried himself into a more serious condition than is warranted." Is not Christian Science doing great work in trying to put an end to this "medical craze"?

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