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Rh upon mental action. If the mind were parted from the body, could you produce any effect upon the brains by applying the drug to them? Would the drug restore will and intelligence to cerebrum and cerebellum?

In medical practice objections would be raised if one doctor should administer a drug to counteract the working of a remedy prescribed by another. It is not less important in metaphysical practice, that the minds which surround your patient should not act against your influence, by continually expressing such opinions as may alarm or discourage, or by giving antagonistic advice. While it is certain that Mind can remove any obstacle, yet you want the ear of your auditor. It is more difficult to make yourself heard mentally when others are thinking about your patients, or conversing with them; therefore you should seek to be alone with the sick while treating them.

A scientific metaphysician never converses on other subjects while treating the sick. The Scientist discerns more clearly the mental cause of disease than the anatomist does the physical, and goes to work more understandingly and with more self-assurance. The greatest hindrance to the prosperity of Christian Science is the envy of malpractioners, who seek to check the better success of the honest practitioner, by setting in motion a counter-current of mortal mind, designed to affect the invalid as poison might affect its antidote.

Our Master easily read the thoughts of mankind, and this insight better enabled him to direct those thoughts aright; but what would be said, at this period, of an infidel blasphemer who should hint that Jesus used his incisive power injuriously?