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Section 3 ~ Medicine.  Chapter 6 of Science and Health 1910, Last edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.   See SUBTITLE Text content below.

  	    If a child is exposed to contagion or infection, the
  	mother is frightened and says, "My child will be sick." 
18	The law of mortal mind and her own fears gov-	                 Children's
  	ern her child more than the child's mind gov-	                         ailments 
  	erns itself, and they produce the very results which might
21	have been prevented through the opposite understanding. 
  	Then it is believed that exposure to the contagion wrought
  	the mischief. 
24	    That mother is not a Christian Scientist, and her affec-
  	tions need better guidance, who says to her child: "You
  	look sick," "You look tired," "You need rest," or "You
27	need medicine." 
  	    Such a mother runs to her little one, who thinks she has
  	hurt her face by falling on the carpet, and says, moaning
30	more childishly than her child, "Mamma knows you are
  	hurt." The better and more successful method for any
  	mother to adopt is to say: "Oh, never mind! You're not
b1	hurt, so don't think you are." Presently the child forgets
  	all about the accident, and is at play.