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Rh but subsequent knowledge has convinced me that he practised it. Hence he did not really heal me, and my disease returned.

After his death I was healed, and this healing followed the revelation to me of the Principle of Christian Science. His method of treating disease was obviously physical, rather than mental. When I first conversed with him he believed matter, sin, sickness, and death to be verities. He also believed matter to possess sensation, and its verdicts to be valid. Matter was quite as real to him as Mind.

I healed some of his patients, and also corrected some of the desultory paragraphs which he had committed to paper, besides leaving with him some of my own writings, which are now claimed as his.

Mr. Quimby's son has stated, over his own signature, that he has in his possession all his father's written utterances; and I have offered to pay for their publication, but he declines to publish them; for their publication would silence the insinuation that Mr. Quimby originated the system of healing which I claim to be mine.

Before writing “Science and Health” I made copious notes of Scriptural exposition, that have never been published. This was about the year 1867-68. These efforts show my ignorance of the subject up to that time, and the degrees by which I came at length to the solution of the great Life-problem; but I value them as a parent may treasure the memorials of childhood's growth, and would not have them changed.

My first pamphlet on the subject was copyrighted in 1870, though it did not appear in print until 1876. From 1867 until 1875 copies were in friendly circulation.