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Rh Every method of medicine has its advocates. The preference of mortal mind for any method creates a demand for it, and the body seems to require it. You can even educate a healthy horse so far in physiology that he will take cold without his blanket; whereas the wild animal, left to his instincts, sniffs the wind with delight. Epizoötic is an evolved ailment, that a natural horse never has.

I have discerned disease in the human mind, and recognized the patient's fear of it, many weeks before the so-called disease made its appearance in the body. Disease being a belief, — a latent creation of mind, before it appears as matter, — I am never mistaken in my scientific diagnosis of disease.

Whenever an aggravation of symptoms has occurred, from mental chemicalization, I have seen the mental signs, assuring me that danger was over, before the patient felt the change, and have said to the patient, “You are healed,” — sometimes to his discomposure, when he was incredulous. But it always proved as I foretold.

I name these facts to show that disease has a mental origin; that faith in rules of health, or in drugs, begets and fosters disease, by attracting the mind to the subject of sickness, by exciting fear of it, and by dosing the body in order to avoid it. The faith reposed in these things should find a higher home. Understanding the control of Mind over body, we should put no faith in material means.

Science reveals the origin of all disease as wholly mental. It declares that all disease is cured by Mind, however much we trust the drug, or any other medium