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Rh draw attention to certain symptoms as unfavorable, or speak aloud the name of the disease. Never say beforehand

how much you have to contend with in a case, or encourage, in the patient's thought, the expectation of growing worse before the crisis is passed.

The refutation of the testimony of material sense is no difficult task, in view of its conceded falsity. The

refutation becomes arduous, not because the testimony is true, but only on account of the tenacity of belief in its truth, because of the force of education, and the overwhelming weight of opinions on the wrong side, — all teaching that the body suffers, as if matter could have sensation.

Explain to the sick the power which error exercises over their bodies. Give them divine and wholesome

understanding, wherewith to fight against their erroneous sense, and so efface the images of disease from mortal mind. Keep distinctly in thought that man is the offspring of Soul, not body, — of God, not man; that man is spiritual, not material; and that soul is not in matter, giving it life and sensation, and producing disease. To break the dream of disease, understand that sickness is formed by the human mind, and not by matter.

By not perceiving vital metaphysical points, not seeing how mortal mind affects the body, — acting

beneficially or injuriously on health, as well as on the morals and the happiness of mortals, — we are misled in our methods. We throw the mental influence on the wrong side, thereby actually injuring those whom we mean to bless.