Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine
A stately advance
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into consideration in its diagnosis of disease. Christian
into consideration in its diagnosis of disease. Christian
Science deals wholly with the mental cause in judging and
destroying disease. It succeeds where homoeopathy fails,
solely because its one recognized Principle of healing is
Mind, and the whole force of the mental element is em-
ployed through the Science of Mind, which never shares
its rights with inanimate matter.
The modus of homoeopathy
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Christian Science exterminates the drug, and rests on
Christian Science exterminates the drug, and rests on
Mind alone as the curative Principle, acknowledging that
the divine Mind has all power. Homoeopathy
mentalizes a drug with such repetition of
thought-attenuations, that the drug becomes
more like the human mind than the substratum of this so‑
called mind, which we call matter; and the drug's power
of action is proportionately increased.
Drugging unchristian
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If drugs are part of God's creation, which (according
If drugs are part of God's creation, which (according
to the narrative in Genesis) He pronounced good, then
drugs cannot be poisonous. If He could cre-
ate drugs intrinsically bad, then they should
never be used. If He creates drugs at all and designs
them for medical use, why did Jesus not employ them
and recommend them for the treatment of disease?
Matter is not self-creative, for it is unintelligent. Erring
mortal mind confers the power which the drug seems to
possess.
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Narcotics quiet mortal mind, and so relieve the body;
Narcotics quiet mortal mind, and so relieve the body;
but they leave both mind and body worse for this sub-
mission. Christian Science impresses the entire corpore-
ality, – namely, mind and body, – and brings out the
proof that Life is continuous and harmonious. Science
both neutralizes error and destroys it. Mankind is the
better for this spiritual and profound pathology.
Mythology and materia medica
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It is recorded that the profession of medicine originated
It is recorded that the profession of medicine originated
in idolatry with pagan priests, who besought the gods to
heal the sick and designated Apollo as "the god
of medicine." He was supposed to have dic-
tated the first prescription, according to the
"History of Four Thousand Years of Medicine." It is
here noticeable that Apollo was also regarded as the sender
of disease, "the god of pestilence." Hippocrates turned
from image-gods to vegetable and mineral drugs for heal-
ing. This was deemed progress in medicine; but
what we need is the truth which heals both mind and
body. The future history of material medicine may
correspond with that of its material god, Apollo, who was
banished from heaven and endured great sufferings
upon earth.
Footsteps to intemperance
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Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes
for the dignity and potency of divine Mind and its effi-
cacy to heal. It is pitiful to lead men into
temptation through the byways of this wil-
derness world, – to victimize the race with intoxicating
prescriptions for the sick, until mortal mind acquires an
educated appetite for strong drink, and men and women
become loathsome sots.
Advancing degrees
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Evidences of progress and of spiritualization greet us
Evidences of progress and of spiritualization greet us
on every hand. Drug-systems are quitting their hold on
matter and so letting in matter's higher stra-
tum, mortal mind. Homoeopathy, a step in
advance of allopathy, is doing this. Matter is going out
of medicine; and mortal mind, of a higher attenuation
than the drug, is governing the pellet.
Effects of fear
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A woman in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, was
A woman in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, was
etherized and died in consequence, although her physi-