Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-20

festival obstruction. ahsccss. or nbnor-
NAL labor. and never stirs finger 90
help them. and Will. az the last utter
this brutal insult over the dead-that
they died ~ went " faith. As Tor her
statement about operating. I have not
yet heard OF "a single case OF appendix
abscess. in Christian Science. whore
the patient did not die. whereas the
operation for the removal OF the app
pcndiN, 70 prevent the risk OF an abb
sccss, has a mortality Of about 1 ror
cent
Anyhow. we cannot liken what hap
pens IN medical ana suricai practise
90 what happens In Christian Science.
First, because On London. for instance,
there are nearly 1000 doctors. and
only 20 Scientist healers Next be-
cause. as DR. Cabot has pointed out.
patient suffering from organic disease
IS less likely 10 20 20 these hcalera
than n patient suffering from func-
tional disease; thus. Christian Science
thinks that she gets the same proper
ton Of organic cases az You get IN "a
general hospital, whereas she gets an
excessive proportion OF purely func-
tional cases
ERRORS OF MORTAL MIND"
Next. because she treats an diseases
ullhf az tiIhln OF UlNNltl NlINNs ana
refuses to see any real difference be-
tween Indigestion and gastric ulcer.
between pain In the breast and cam
Ger OF the breast, between ordinary
backache and spinal carries. between
ordinary headache and cerebral tU-
NOR between weak eyes and optic
ncuritis. between nervous Inability 10
walk and degeneration of the spinal
cord, between ''palpitatious" and
Valvular disease Of the heart Next
because she forbids the use OF drugs
she robs the epileptlc Of their bromide.
the angina cases OF their amyl nitrltc
tho heart cases Of their digitalis, and
the rheumatic-fcvcr cases Of their sal
icvlHte
Finally. because she never examines
n patient. takes a temperature. reads
p medical book. enters q museum. dis
scots specimen, makes a chemical
test. listens to the lungs, feels the
pulse. or looks down microscope.
She sends out her healers absolutely
ignorant Of the very elements OF
anatomy, physiology. pathology, med
Icine. surgery, and midwifery
Thus, when people die OF Christian
Science, II Is not failure" it is the
'Ompletc logical success Of her meth
IDS. No mistake was made In dag
losis, for no diagnosis was made Moth
ng was wrong in the treatment they
vent on demonstrating and voicing the
ruth, just As they ought. 10 the very
asst moment Nothing failed but the
latients faith. Everything that ought !
% h. done was done. II was not the |
ealer who failed. Il was the victim
We all know that Christian Science |
oes heal many cases She does en- /
bile "a multitude of invalids 10 forget /
heir ailments. to cease from watching /
nd remembering the inhrmities OF the 1
Ody. She does enable many people /
D leave of smoking drinking and /
ven the drug habit. She does often
nable those whom we call neurotic or 4
eurasthenic TO regain confidence. ac- 1
witty. and health. We do not know
oW many Of these patients relapse, nor
o we know the proportion Of the heal
4 70 the not-healed. All the same. IL
certain that she heals by suggestion
very great number Of people whose
xtremc sensitiveneSS made their lives
burden 70 themselves or TO their
ricnds In brief. she can heal such
Asses as have been healed age after age
4 the temples OF Acsculapius In the
resence OF a relic. at the touch Of a
lesmerist or by a fright, or a legacy
r marriage. or by the stronger VIII
Z a doctor a nurse. a candid friend;
he r. a new way OF that old ''infu-
nee Of tho mind over the body" which
cyan with the very beginning Of our
ace.
HIDING FAILURES.
She is not content with that: she
must heal all diseases. DR.. Cabot. Dr