Twice a year, the week before the Annual Meeting in June and early in November, a meeting of The Christian Science Board of Directors is held for the purpose of electing applicants to membership with The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
The medical column of one magazine records this observation: "Burying a dead cat at midnight can cure warts as effectively as medical treatment, a dermatologist says. Or you might rub the wart with grasshopper spit. Whatever the treatment, the crucial ingredient is faith that it will work, according to Dr. Jerome Z. Litt, assistant professor of dermatology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland."Reader's Digest, May 1977, p. 35;