The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-12
MEDICAL MANS VIEWS.
Christian Science Healing as Dis
cussed by DR.. j. C. Bateson Be-
fore the Medical Society Last
Night.

An interesting paper on christian
Science Healing" was read before the
Lackawanna County Medical society
last evening by Dr. ]. G. Bateson.
He treated the subject as a gross
absurdity and characterized the term
science" in connection with that be-
lief as the height of righteousness.
According to the doctors of Christian
Science there is no physical body to be
sick, no sickness outside of thought.
Admitting this, DIR. BatesOn said, the
conclusion can be fairly drawn that
the Christian scientists belief is that
mental cure is a discovery by a sick
person that he is WELL
In refuting the doctrine that dis
ease is "A mere matter of mentality, he
dwelt at length on what the micros-
cope reveals in different diseases and
contended that germs and microbes,
found in sick persons and absent in
healthy ones, can not be evolved by
any mere process of thinking
Christian Science, he went on to
say, enjoys no solitary distinction as
to derive curative agency. The cure
of disease, in the past, by relies,
charms and superstition are quite as
remarkable as any cure effected by
Christian Science. Frank Schlatter in
Denver only a few years ago cured
invalids by simply touching a hand
kerchef brought to him from their
bedside. a negro woman in New
York, not Iong since, effected marvel
GUS cures with the greese from the
tail of a black cat that had it's throat
cut. The more ignorant the worker,
the more unreasonable the method,
the more satisfactory the result.
You cannot trip up a Christian Sci
enlist. If they die it is not they. They
may be taken sick, but it is not the
real man that is sick. Something has
happened to them, yet nothing has
happened to them. No real body has
been sick, and there is no physical
| body to die. Yet we often bury Chris
| tian Scientists.
All physical discussion is set aside
| by these dillusionists. They recognize
no common basis of appeal. You must
| first become a scientist, they say, be-
| fore you can understand their philOso-
ply.
Beyond a doubt, DR.. Bateson claimed
nine-tenths of the reported Christian
| Science cures are in reality neuraSThe-
| mia, either in its mOnOmaniaC, hypO-
| chOndriaC, dyspeptic or hysteric type.
| Christian Science hcalers essay to
| cure any and ell diseases and receive
| pay for the same. Their remuneration
| however, no mere matter of neutrality.
| They don't got their pay in their mind.
| They demand real material dollars.
| To become Christian Scientist one
| must become as the hypnotic subject
| who sees pictures on blank cards at the
| will of the hvpnotist. You must first
be deluded. Their you can understand
| Christian Science.
| In asserting that drugs are effective
DR.. Batoson pointed out that 1t has
been positively demonstrated time and
again that amounts have Eeen effected
by drugs, administered without the
| animal knowing that it was taking
drugs. Small doses have had little OF
no effect and large doses a great effect
II is the same in experiments with idi-
OTIS and unconscious infants.
| Medical doctors do not pretend tc
| heal any diseases, however simple
but 20 prescribe the same remedies
and agents provided by the same God
that creates the law of healing.