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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.

  	    With due respect for the faculty, I kindly	                        Testimony
30	quote from Dr. Benjamin Rush, the famous	                        of medical
  	Philadelphia teacher of medical practice. He	                        teachers 
  	declared that "it is impossible to calculate the mischief
 1	which Hippocrates has done, by first marking Nature
  	with his name, and afterward letting her loose upon sick
 3	people." 
  	    Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, Professor in Harvard Uni-
  	versity, declared himself "sick of learned quackery." 
 6	    Dr. James Johnson, Surgeon to William IV, King of
  	England, said:
  	    "I declare my conscientious opinion, founded on long
 9	observation and reflection, that if there were not a single
  	physician, surgeon, apothecary, man-midwife, chemist,
  	druggist, or drug on the face of the earth, there would be
12	less sickness and less mortality." 
  	    Dr. Mason Good, a learned Professor in London,
  	said:
15	   "The effects of medicine on the human system are in
  	the highest degree uncertain; except, indeed, that it has
  	already destroyed more lives than war, pestilence, and
18	famine, all combined." 
  	    Dr. Chapman, Professor of the Institutes and Practice
  	of Physic in the University of Pennsylvania, in a published
21	essay said:
  	   "Consulting the records of our science, we cannot
  	help being disgusted with the multitude of hypotheses
24	obtruded upon us at different times.  Nowhere is the
  	imagination disp...layed to a greater extent; and perhaps
  	so ample an exhibition of human invention might gratify
27	our vanity, if it were not more than compensated by the
  	humiliating view of so much absurdity, contradiction,
  	and falsehood.  To harmonize the contrarieties of med-
30	ical doctrines is indeed a task as impracticable as to
  	arrange the fleeting vapors around us, or to reconcile the
  	fixed and repulsive antipathies of nature.  Dark and
 1	perplexed, our devious career resembles the groping of
  	Homer's Cyclops around his cave." 
 3	    Sir John Forbes, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal
  	College of Physicians, London, said:
  	   "No systematic or theoretical classification of diseases
 6	or of therapeutic agents, ever yet promulgated, is true, or
  	anything like the truth, and none can be adopted as a safe
  	guidance in practice." 
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