Article March 25, 1916 Issue

The number of patients who have been pronounced incurable...

Avery Coonley

Peoria (Ill.) Star

The number of patients who have been pronounced incurable by the medical profession, but who are now well as a result of Christian Science treatment, is very large. Before such a patient abandoned medicine for Christian Science medical men have usually said that Christian Science could do nothing for him. After it has healed him, they have ordinarily concluded that there was nothing the matter with him which time and fresh air could not cure; hence, Christian Science had not benefited him. This simple mental process leaves Christian Science with churches filled with active, useful, and happy persons, many of whom the medical profession had consigned to the cemeteries with tuberculosis, locomotor ataxia, cancer, tumor, and the like, and at the same time a clean record in the eyes of the medical organization of never having healed a case of organic disease.

I have submitted to the Journal of the American Medical Association a letter in correction of the misstatements about Christian Science in the editorial you have reproduced, in which I have pointed out that Christian Science invariably endeavors to preserve life, and with a notable record of success; that what they called doing nothing has healed hopeless disease in innumerable instances, and that it has nothing to do with "thought waves," but is that method employed by him to whom Christendom refers as the great Physician.

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