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Show Iti'lirf In Sickness. It is a very old observation that a dominant domi-nant idea is valuable in controlling the human being, and whether it lie in the bearing of pain or in the devotion which leads the Turk to die contentedly before the Russian bullets, belief is a factor that may be turned to great advantage. Indirectly, In-directly, Christian science may prove an aid to medical science. The intelligent physician of today conld receive no greater aid in the scientific practice of his profession than to be emancipated by his patients from the obligation invariably invari-ably to prescribe a drug. When people nre willing to employ physicians to order their lives so that they may live in health, the custom which binds tho physician phy-sician to prescribe something for his patient pa-tient will be unnecessary. As we have become more civilized this state of affairs is gradually coming into place, but there still lingers tho expectation expecta-tion that the doctor's visit means drugs. Christian science and faith euro, more refined than the spiritualistic beliefs which have preceded them, form an interesting in-teresting study in mental pathology, and mark an advance from the grosser stage of table tipping and magnetic doctors to a recognition of tho fact that among the weapons employed by the scientific physician phy-sician of today un appeal to a determined purpose to overcome pain is worthy of a place beside antiseptics and anodynes and tonics. Century. |