Article November 4, 1911 Issue

My attention has been called to the article in your June...

H. L. Conger

Wisconsin Journal of Education

My attention has been called to the article in your June issue, entiled, "A Mounmental Blunder," in which you credit the defeat of the "Medical Inspection Bill for School Children" to the "adherents of the Christian Science faith."

In the interest of pure facts we would say, that from the time this bill was introduced up to the committee hearing, the fight was made by the National League for Medical Freedom. A great many Christian Scientists, as individuals, are members of this league. Its membership, however, includes followers of osteopathy (the chairman of the state committee being a prominent practitioner of the school, living in Milwaukee), the Eclectic Society, and other schools of medicine and healing. The league is much broader than the Christian Science movement, and will eventually include all those who favor individual choice of medicine or medical freedom.

Nobody is opposed to Christian Science, though many are opposed to what they think it is. As a matter of fact Christian Scientists recognize the existence of disease in human experience, and call it by the same name that is employed by others, although they differ from some as to its nature and needful remedy. The bill was no more objectionable to Christian Scientists than to the general public, who recognized in it the effort to curtail individual privilege. Now let us remove all bias or prejudice for a moment and consider some of the opinions of physicians regarding materia medica; then perhaps we can decide as to the efficacious results of a compulsory medical inspection bill proposed by one school of medicine.

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