Article September 22, 1917 Issue

"True to Christian Science, He Dies Barring Doctors,"...

Morning Telegraph

"True to Christian Science, He Dies Barring Doctors," is the way a headline reads in one of our morning contemporaries, and then the story is told of how Professor Bement might have had medical attendance in his last illness if he had permitted it. The inference is that if he had called in a doctor he would be alive today. And the inference may be correct; we do not pretend to say that it is not. A great many persons, first and last, have survived serious illness after calling in medical practitioners, and this professor might have been one of the lucky patients. Also it may be remarked with all truth that a great many persons first and last have died after consulting physicians and after being treated by them. This is an indisputable fact, and yet we never see a headline reading, "True to Allopathy, He Dies Under Doctor's Care," or "Faith Unshaken in Homeopathy, Patient Succumbs Despite Efforts of Physicians."

It seems to us that it all should rest with the individual. If he desire it, he should be attended by a doctor—in his last illness; and if he have no confidence in doctors he should trust to his faith and mental medication. If, indeed, it is to prove a "last illness," he is as well off in one case as the other, and statistics will show that his chance of survival in final or other illness is about as great whether he dose himself with physic or whether he depend upon faith and good fortune.

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