Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine
Testimony of medical teachers
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which Hippocrates has done, by first marking Nature
which Hippocrates has done, by first marking Nature
with his name, and afterward letting her loose upon sick
people."
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Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, Professor in Harvard Uni-
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, Professor in Harvard Uni-
versity, declared himself "sick of learned quackery."
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Dr. James Johnson, Surgeon to William IV, King Of
Dr. James Johnson, Surgeon to William IV, King Of
England, said:
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"I declare my conscientious opinion, founded on long
"I declare my conscientious opinion, founded on long
observation and reflection, that if there were not a single
physician, surgeon, apothecary, man-midwife, chemist,
druggist, or drug on the face of the earth, there would be
less sickness and less mortality."
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Dr. Mason Good, a learned Professor in London,
Dr. Mason Good, a learned Professor in London,
said:
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"The effects of medicine on the human system are in
"The effects of medicine on the human system are in
the highest degree uncertain; except, indeed, that it has
already destroyed more lives than war, pestilence, and
famine, all combined."
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Dr. Chapman, Professor of the Institutes and Practice
Dr. Chapman, Professor of the Institutes and Practice
of Physic in the University of Pennsylvania, in a published
essay said:
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"Consulting the records of our science, we cannot
"Consulting the records of our science, we cannot
help being disgusted with the multitude of hypotheses
obtruded upon us at different times. Nowhere is the
imagination displayed to a greater extent; and perhaps
so ample an exhibition of human invention might gratify
our vanity, if it were not more than compensated by the
humiliating view of so much absurdity, contradiction,
and falsehood. To harmonize the contrarieties of med-
ical doctrines is indeed a task as impracticible as to
arrange the fleeting vapors around us, or to reconcile the
fixed and repulsive antipathies of nature. Dark and
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perplexed, our devious career resembles the groping of
perplexed, our devious career resembles the groping of
Homer's Cyclops around his cave."
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Sir John Forbes, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal
Sir John Forbes, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians, London, said:
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"No systematic or theoretical classification of diseases
"No systematic or theoretical classification of diseases
or of therapeutic agents, ever yet promulgated, is true, or
anything like the truth, and none can be adopted as a safe
guidance in practice."
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It is just to say that generally the cultured class of medi-
It is just to say that generally the cultured class of medi-
cal practitioners are grand men and women, therefore
they are more scientific than are false claimants to Chris-
tian Science. But all human systems based on material
premises are minus the unction of divine Science. Much
yet remains to be said and done before all mankind is
saved and all the mental microbes of sin and all diseased
thought-germs are exterminated.
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If you or I should appear to die, we should not be
If you or I should appear to die, we should not be
dead. The seeming decease, caused by a majority of
human beliefs that man must die, or produced by mental
assassins, does not in the least disprove Christian Science;
rather does it evidence the truth of its basic proposition
that mortal thoughts in belief rule the materiality mis‑
called life in the body or in matter. But the forever fact
remains paramount that Life, Truth, and Love save from
sin, disease, and death. "When this corruptible shall have
put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality [divine Science], then shall be brought to pass
the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in
victory" (St. Paul).