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

30	    The doctor's mind reaches that of his patient. The
  	doctor should suppress his fear of disease, else his belief
  	in its reality and fatality will harm his patients even more
1	than his calomel and morphine, for the higher stratum of
  	mortal mind has in belief more power to harm man than
 3	the substratum, matter. A patient hears the	                             Harm done by
  	doctor's verdict as a criminal hears his death-	                     physicians 
  	sentence. The patient may seem calm under it, but he is
 6	not. His fortitude may sustain him, but his fear, which
  	has already developed the disease that is gaining the
  	mastery, is increased by the physician's words.