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 tional and hysterical natures are more prone to disease than those that are rational. And under hysteria as a cause we may find symptoms which for a time simulate the likeness of many known diseases that spring from external agents.

But so deceptive are these symptoms, sometimes, that frequently the physician is misled, and attributes them to the disease which they merely bear likeness to.

It is the patients suffering from this class of diseases, whose cases have been misapprehended by the doctor (for our medical men are sometimes fallible), who make the chief capital in trade for the Christian Scientists. One cure of a hysteric will outweigh a hundred failures of their mummery in organic ailments; and people flock to the quack because of the wonder of his miraculous power. Yet reputable physicians are accomplishing these same cures day by day in their practice; and because they make no mystery of them, and refuse to call them save by their rational name, no alarming wonder ensues.

The objection to the Christian Science practitioner is that he is uneducated in the laws of physiology, pathology,—and the diagnosis of disease. He refuses