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               MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS 

 1	    The physical side of this research was aided by hints
  	from homoeopathy, sustaining my final conclusion
 3	that mortal belief, instead of the drug, governed the action
  	of material medicine. 
  	    I wandered through the dim mazes of materia medica,
 6	till I was weary of "scientific guessing," as it has been well
  	called. I sought knowledge from the different schools, — 
  	allopathy, homoeopathy, hydropathy, electricity, and from
 9	various humbugs, — but without receiving satisfaction. 
  	    I found, in the two hundred and sixty-two remedies
  	enumerated by Jahr, one pervading secret; namely, that
12	the less material medicine we have, and the more Mind,
  	the better the work is done; a fact which seems to prove
  	the Principle of Mind-healing. One drop of the thirtieth
15	attenuation of Natrum muriaticum, in a tumbler-full
  	of water, and one teaspoonful of the water mixed with
  	the faith of ages, would cure patients not affected by a
18	larger dose. The drug disappears in the higher attenua-
  	tions of homoeopathy, and matter is thereby rarefied to
  	its fatal essence, mortal mind; but immortal Mind, the
21	curative Principle, remains, and is found to be even more
  	active. 
  	    The mental virtues of the material methods of medicine,
24	when understood, were insufficient to satisfy my doubts
 
  
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 1	...as to the honesty or utility of using a material curative. I
  	must know more of the unmixed, unerring source, in order
 3	to gain the Science of Mind, the All-in-all of Spirit, in
  	which matter is obsolete. Nothing less could solve the
  	mental problem. If I sought an answer from the medical
 6	schools, the reply was dark and contradictory. Neither
  	ancient nor modern philosophy could clear the clouds, or
  	give me one distinct statement of the spiritual Science of
 9	Mind-healing. Human reason was not equal to it. 
  	    I claim for healing scientifically the following advan-
  	tages: First: It does away with all material medicines,
12	and recognizes the antidote for all sickness, as well as sin,
  	in the immortal Mind; and mortal mind as the source of
  	all the ills which befall mortals. Second: It is more effec-
15	tual than drugs, and cures when they fail, or only relieve;
  	thus proving the superiority of metaphysics over physics. 
  	Third: A person healed by Christian Science is not only
18	healed of his disease, but he is advanced morally and
  	spiritually. The mortal body being but the objective state
  	of the mortal mind, this mind must be renovated to im-
21	prove the body.
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