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Physiology - Chapter 7 of Science and Health 1910, last edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.  See SUBTITLE Text content below.

  	    If a dose of poison is swallowed through mistake, and
  	the patient dies even though physician and	                              Poison
27	patient are expecting favorable results, does	                              defined
  	human belief, you ask, cause this death? Even	                      mentally 
  	so, and as directly as if the poison had been intentionally
30	taken. 
  	    In such cases a few persons believe the potion swal-
  	lowed by the patient to be harmless, but the vast ma-
 1	jority of mankind, though they know nothing of this par-
  	ticular case and this special person, believe the arsenic,
 3	the strychnine, or whatever the drug used, to be poi-
  	sonous, for it is set down as a poison by mortal mind. 
  	Consequently, the result is controlled by the majority of
 6	opinions, not by the infinitesimal minority of opinions in
  	the sick-chamber. 
  	    Heredity is not a law. The remote cause or belief
 9	of disease is not dangerous because of its priority and
  	the connection of past mortal thoughts with present. 
  	The predisposing cause and the exciting cause are
12	mental. 
  	    Perhaps an adult has a deformity produced prior to his
  	birth by the fright of his mother. When wrested from
15	human belief and based on Science or the divine Mind, to
  	which all things are possible, that chronic case is not
  	difficult to cure.