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Rh and ward it off, just as positively as they can a temptation to sin. Sixth.—In preparing to treat patients, the healer must strengthen and steady his own mind. Be firm in your understanding that Mind governs the body. Have no foolish fears that matter governs, and can ache, swell, and be inflamed from a law of its own; when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain or inflammation.... If you believe in inflamed or weak nerves, you are liable to an attack from that source. You will call it neuralgia, but I call it Illusion.... When treating the sick, first make your mental plea in behalf of harmony, ... then realize the absence of disease.... Use such powerful eloquence as a Congressman would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. Seventh.—You are fortunate if your patient knows little or nothing, for "a patient thoroughly booked in medical theories has less sense of the divine power, and is more difficult to heal through Mind, than an aboriginal Indian who never bowed the knee to the Baal of civilization." Eighth.—See that the "minds which surround your patient do not act against your influence by continually expressing such opinions as may alarm or discourage.... You should seek to be alone with the sick while treating them." Ninth.—Bathing and rubbing are of no use. Bathing and rubbing to alter the secretions, or remove unhealthy exhalations from the cuticle, receive a useful rebuke from Christian Healing.... John Quincy Adams presents an instance of firm health and an adherence to hygienic rules, but there are few others. Tenth.—What if the patient grow worse? Suppose the patient should appear to grow worse. This I term chemicalization. It is the upheaval produced when