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Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.

  	    Let us suppose two parallel cases of bone-disease, both
  	similarly produced and attended by the same symptoms. 
24	A surgeon is employed in one case, and a	                                Bone-healing
  	Christian Scientist in the other. The sur-	                                        by surgery 
  	geon, holding that matter forms its own conditions and
27	renders them fatal at certain points, entertains fears and
  	doubts as to the ultimate outcome of the injury. Not
  	holding the reins of government in his own hands, he
30	believes that something stronger than Mind — namely,
  	matter — governs the case. His treatment is therefore
  	tentative. This mental state invites defeat. The belief
 1	that he has met his master in matter and may not be
  	able to mend the bone, increases his fear; yet this belief
 3	should not be communicated to the patient, either ver-
  	bally or otherwise, for this fear greatly diminishes the
  	tendency towards a favorable result. Remember that the
 6	unexpressed belief oftentimes affects a sensitive patient
  	more strongly than the expressed thought.