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320 success, reports at length the alleged cures made by the practising healers and, in many instances, by the mere reading of Science and Health. While this department was of great value in giving publicity to the claims of Christian Science its recital of the details of illness and suffering make painful reading and seem rather too intimately personal for quotation. A few of the headings will indicate the nature of these communications: "Liver Complaint of Long Standing Cured by Half an Hour's Talk"; "Cancer on the Face, Badly Broken Out, Cured in One Week"; "Heart Trouble and Dropsy, with Great Swelling of the Limbs, of Thirty Years' Standing, Cured in Two Treatments"; "Bright's Disease and also Scrofulous Bunches on the Neck Cured in Three Weeks"; "Woman Had Twenty-nine Surgical Operations"; "Had Seventeen Physicians"; "Cancer and Lockjaw"; "Cured of Both Paralysis and Mormonism."

One amusing report states that "a girl nineteen years old who was dumb and had never spoken, commenced talking after her third treatment as if she was thinking aloud, and has talked ever since." Among these notes on healing, the following, from the Journal of October, 1887, deserves mention:


 * Our dog was bitten by a rattlesnake on the tongue a short time ago, and the verdict, as is usual in such cases, was death; but through the understanding of God's promise that we shall handle serpents and not be harmed, if we but believe, I was able to demonstrate over the belief in four days. The dog is now as well as ever.

In the Journal of April, 1885, occurs an interesting paragraph regarding General Grant (then in his last illness), which asserts that his physicians "are hastening him toward the