Article June 26, 1920 Issue

Because the methods employed by Christian Science in...

A. O. Freel—Portland, Ore.

Oregonian

Because the methods employed by Christian Science in healing the sick do not happen to agree with the preconceived opinion of a judge in a police court about how the sick should be treated, is small reason for his accusing the Christian Science practitioner and the parents of a deceased boy of criminal neglect in the care and treatment of the boy, who is said to have died of influenza. The judge in dismissing the case is reported to have said that, in his opinion, the boy would not have died if he had received reasonable medical treatment.

In making this statement the judge is assuming an unenviable responsibility. Especially is this true as no evidence was introduced to show neglect in the care of the boy. Such a conclusion in this event could be arrived at only on the assumption that under "reasonable medical treatment" all similar cases of influenza recover. But such is not the case. Within a period of little more than a year, more than two thousand cases have proved fatal under medical treatment in Oregon.

In fact Christian Science treatment has proved itself to be many times more successful than has medical treatment in the healing of influenza wherever statistics have been gathered. As a fair example of the relative value of Christian Science treatment in healing influenza, the statistics from California are as follows:

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