Editorial January 10, 1942 Issue

The Real Source of Help in Healing

Alfred Pittman

Christian Scientists welcome the manifestly increasing recognition among physicians of the importance of thought in relation to disease. In a recent newspaper one physician writes, "The public has come to know that the mind is a potent factor in creating both mental and physical disease." Another the health officer of a large American city, says in a pamphlet:

The health of the world, individual and community, would be far better, if it were not for so much petty meanness.... Smallpox, yellow fever, or cholera, singly or all together, have never created such havoc or wrought such damage as unkindness. ... Public health departments might with propriety and decorum enter this new and slightly worked field of "Do unto others."

A third physician is quoted as saying before the medical society of another great city:

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