The Cordova daily times., 1922-08-08
4 Lecture On
 Christian Science

l On the other hand I remembered one person who thouht he was un- usually susceptible to the supposed action of drugs. No matter how minute the quantity of drug which was given him his ill- ness was immediately very greatly increased, yet he insisted that he must have medicine. Powders that had no more medicinal action than chalk would produce this aggrava- | tion as we'll as medicine, so it was evident that this too was mental.
 MATERIAL METHODS FAIL
 Anyone who goes back into the history of material medicine is i'm pressed by the fact that for practi- cally every diseased condition there has been a continual succession of drugs, one following the other; and l it is always claimed for the last one, with the greatest enthusiasm and positiveness that it certainly does heal the disease, and in support of this contention there may be offered the records of many cases that have been cured. Human thought is not much given to retrospection along this line. If it were it would re- member that all the drugs that have followed each other in the treatment of disease, and have been success sively discarded, have had the same glowing record when they were first used. The reason for this is that it is not the drug but the belief In it which accomplishes the healing, Those who discover and bring forth remedy are strong in their belief that it will cure, because the remedy is the outcome of definite convic- tion as to how the disease should be be treated; so they obtain marked results, while those who prescribe the same drug later on have no such deep conviction, and because of their previous experience may be even mildly skeptical. This state or thought brings about failure.
 Because the new remedy with it's short lived record of success always takes the place of the old with its final record of failure these success sive changes are announced in the name of progress The extent of the failure is seen in the fact that every material thing, vegetable, mineral, and animal, which imagination con- cieved to have a medicinal action has been tried. The ignorance of the medical methods of a hundred years ago is laughed at by the men who seriously believe, that extracts from calves and pigs can make them bet ter men.
 Now the history of every material method including surgery is the same as that of drugs. The results which come are according to the belief which is entertained about them. One has only to glance through the med ical journals to see that physicians themselves are condemning many of the operations and methods which are entertained about them. One has only to glance through the medical journals to see that physicians them selves are condemning many of the operations and methods which the world at large has been taught to be- lieve would heal them. Almost every one can recall operations and meth ods which were quite the rage few years ago but are seldom heard of today, and it is perfectly safe to pre- dict that the surgical procedures which seem successful today will be discarded for others tomorrow.
 The casual observer may be made to believe that these operations were reasonably successful and were only abandoned because other and better operative methods had been discov- cred. Investigation will show, how ever, that the operation was most successful during it's early history, and that something detrimental - some disturbing after effect ap- peared with greater and greater fre- quency until the method was aband- oned for another so new that it had not had time to acquire a record of failure.
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LOGICAL
 In what has been said there is no disposition to criticize the medical profession or to minimize whatever of good it may be accomplishing, but it is no kindness to them to re-