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Rh only on hysteria, hypochondria, or hallucination? One disease is no more unreal than another. All disease is the result of hallucination, and can carry its ill effects no further than mortal mind maps out. Facts are stubborn things. Christian Science finds the decided type of acute disease, however severe, quite as ready to yield as the less distinct type and chronic form of disease. It handles the most malignant contagion with perfect assurance.

Because guided by Divine Truth, and not guess-work, the Theologus (i. e. the student, or expounder, of the divine law) treats disease with more certain results than any other healer on the globe. The Scientist who understands and adheres strictly to the rules of my system, and rests his demonstration on its sure basis, is the only one safe to employ in difficult and dangerous cases.

Mind as far outstrips drugs in the cure of disease as in the cure of sin. The more excellent way is Mind Science in every case. Medicine is not a science, but a bundle of speculative human theories. The prescription that succeeds in one instance fails in another, owing to the different mental states of the patient. These states are not comprehended; and they are without a sign, except to the skilful Scientist. The rule, and its perfectness in my system, never vary. If you fail to succeed in any case, it is because you have not demonstrated the rule and proven the Principle.

Many of our best men and women have passed away, since this book was begun, who might have been saved by the Science of which it treats. The minor hosts of Æsculapius are flooding our land with diseases, because they are utterly ignorant of the unity of the human