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

 9	    The materialistic doctor, though humane, is an art-
  	ist who outlines his thought relative to disease, and then
  	fills in his delineations with sketches from text-	                    Disease
12	books. It is better to prevent disease from	                            depicted 
  	forming in mortal mind afterwards to appear on the
  	body; but to do this requires attention. The thought of
15	disease is formed before one sees a doctor and before
  	the doctor undertakes to dispel it by a counter-irritant,
  	 — perhaps by a blister, by the application of caustic or
18	croton oil, or by a surgical operation. Again, giving an-
  	other direction to faith, the physician prescribes drugs,
  	until the elasticity of mortal thought haply causes a
21	vigorous reaction upon itself, and reproduces a picture
  	of healthy and harmonious formations. 
  	    A patient's belief is more or less moulded and formed
24	by his doctor's belief in the case, even though the doctor
  	says nothing to support his theory. His thoughts and his
  	patient's commingle, and the stronger thoughts rule the
27	weaker. Hence the importance that doctors be Christian
  	Scientists.