Article June 19, 1915 Issue

The article in a recent illustrates the present-day...

Henry Deutsch

Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune

The article in a recent illustrates the present-day tendency to make broad statements of personal opinion which cannot be supported by facts, and therefore can produce no result except to mislead the public and convey erroneous impressions where the truth can be easily ascertained.

It would be very difficult for the speaker, in the sermon referred to, to point out a single case where a person who turned to Christian Science for healing and received proper treatment, has thereby sacrificed his life. On the contrary, the fact is that a large percentage of persons who turn to Christian Science for help, consists of those whose lives, from the standpoint of medical science, were at the last ebb and were saved through Christian Science treatment when materia medica announced itself as helpless. As a matter of fact, experience would seem to indicate that there are very few cases of organic disease that yield to medical treatment, whereas we have hundreds of such cases healed in Christian Science.

It would have been interesting if the lecturer had indicated what he meant by "acknowledged facts and science, disregard of which should be held as criminal neglect." It is certainly an acknowledged fact that drug medication has been a failure, because the medical profession today are ceasing to prescribe it to a very large extent and diminishing the prescriptions from day to day. It is also an acknowledged fact that medical so-called science is purely experimental, and that the heterodoxy of one decade becomes the orthodoxy, if not the obsolete, of the next. Surgery, the most exact branch of medical practice, is likewise falling under the ban. Some of the best surgeons do not hesitate to say that it has been too extensively exploited and that too many lives have been sacrificed to its experiments. The foundation of all medical practice, diagnosis, is admitted by some of its best experts to be faulty to the extent of at least 50 per cent, and in general practice to a much larger percentage. If physicians are not correct in their diagnoses, what may be expected of their treatment?

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