Testimony of Healing May 27, 1916 Issue

Four years ago I began the study of Christian Science,...

Virginia M. Pritchard

Four years ago I began the study of Christian Science, after having been constantly under medical treatment for nine years. I had undergone three surgical operations at different times during these years, the last one for gall-stones. Then I gradually grew worse, and became so frail that the attending physician forbade any attempt to sit, stand, or walk. The doctor who was treating me at this time called in a very prominent surgeon to diagnose the case for him, as he had been treating me for Bright's disease without any success whatever; in fact I seemingly was growing weaker all the time.

The diagnosis was gall-stones, and an immediate operation was declared necessary. On being told that I attributed my present condition to just such an operation, when it was claimed that the gall-bladder had been removed, the surgeon became very thoughtful, and finally said the gall-bladder had not been removed, that gall-stones were in the ducts, and that the operation had been but partial. The surgeon had become frightened and quit when he found the gall-stones in the ducts. I decided that the operation would have to remain but partial, as I would never submit to another one.

At this refusal both doctor and surgeon left me without care, except what a nurse could give. Some days passed in this condition, when a friend prevailed upon me to try her doctor. After much quizzing and examining this doctor said I was nearly dead from theories and medicine, so he gave me no medicine whatever, but used all the means known to him to cleanse the system of poisons. In six weeks' time I could walk in my bedroom. The doctor then told my husband to get me out of this climate; that I would die if I stayed here, and might do so on the way to the Pacific coast, though to the sea-level I must go. I went, and after remaining there eight months, came back very little improved in health.

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