# The Quimby Manuscripts

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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I | Biographical Sketch | 7-18 |
| II | History of the Manuscripts | 19-26 |
| III | Quimby's Restoration to Health | 27-35 |
| IV | The Mesmeric Period | 36-48 |
| V | The Principles Discovered | 49-62 |
| VI | The Intermediate Period | 63-72 |
| VII | Early Writings | 73-85 |
| | To the Sick in Body and Mind; Spiritualism and Mesmerism; Letter to a Patient; To a Patient; Mr. Quimby's Method. |
| VIII | Contemporary Testimony | 86-108 |
| IX | Letters from Patients | 109-116 |
| X | Letters to Patients | 117-132 |
| XI | Letters to Patients and Inquirers | 133-151 |
| XII | Mrs. Eddy: 1862-1875 | 152-164 |
| XIII | Questions and Answers | 165-178 |
| XIV | Christ or Science | 179-229 |
| | Mind is Spiritual Matter; What is Disease? How does the Mind Produce Disease? Mind is Not Intelligence: Is the Curing of Disease a Science? Is Disease a Belief? Life and Disease; Disease; Love I; What is My Theory; Clairvoyance; Love II; How Dr. Quimby Cures; Another World; Your Position; My Theory; Establishing a Science; Two Sciences; Christ and Truth; Difference Between My Belief and Others; True and False Christs; Your True Position; My Religion; Happiness; Prayer I; Prayer II; How I Hold My Patients; How I Cure the Sick; Do People Really Believe What They Think? Jesus and Christ; Wrong Use of Words; Harmony I; Harmony II; Difference of Opinion About the Dead; Resurrection; A Communication; My Use of the Word Mind. ​ |
| XV | The World of the Senses | 230-274 |
| | To the Reader; False Reports Concerning My Religious Belief; Mind; The Scientific Man; The Natural Man; Death of the Natural Man; The Senses; How the Senses Are Deceived; The Senses and Language; Man's Identity; The Effect of Mind on Mind; Imagination; How the Opinions of Physicians Operate; Obstacles in Establishing a New Science; Mind and Disease; Do We Know All We Write or Say? |
| XVI | Disease and Healing | 275-322 |
| | The Reception of this Great Truth; Concerning Beliefs; Works the Fruit of Our Belief; The Relation of this Truth to the Sick; Parable; Answer to a Question; Cures; Is There Any Curative Quality in Medicine? Outlines of a New Theory for Curing Disease; Disease; Disease, Love and Courage; What Do I Impart to My Patients? Experience of a Patient; The Silent Method; Treatment of a Child; The Healing Principle; Health and Disease; Learning to Heal; Strength; Mind and Disease. |
| XVII | God and Man | 323-349 |
| | On Wisdom; The Christian's God; Man; Love. |
| XVIII | Religious Questions | 350-381 |
| | Defence Against an Accusation of Making Myself Equal to Christ; Religion in Disease; Jesus' Healing and His Message; Religon; The Effect of Religion on Health; Controversy About the Dead; The Resurrection; Another World; What is Religion; The Other World; Defence Against an Accusation of Putting Down Religion. |
| XIX | Science, Life, Death | 382-428 |
| | Science; Christian Science; Life; Man and Woman; Light; Death; Thoughts; Editor's Summary. |
| Appendix | Appendix | 429-438 |
| | List of Quimby's Writings. The Quimby-Eddy Controversy. |
| Photographic Reproductions of Manuscripts | Photographic Reproductions of Manuscripts | 443 |
THE QUIMBY MANUSCRIPTS
Edited by H.W.DRESSER
THE
QUIMBY MANUSCRIPTS
EDITED BY
HORATIO W. DRESSER
Author of “Outlines of the Psychology of Religion,” etc.
NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1921,
By THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY
Fifth Printing
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