Science of Health from the Viewpoint of the Newest Christian Thought (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903. Excerpt: ... FAITH-HEALING CLASSIFIED. We may group under the following heads the cases which may serve to explain healing by Faith, Christian Science, Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mental Action, etc: I. Those effected by faith in the personal power (often supposed to be Divine) of an individual. II. Those effected by faith in the mental power or magnetic influence of a man. III. Those effected by charms, idols, relics, and socalled witchcraft (often supposed to be devilish). IV. Those effected by faith in medical remedies, and in appliances wholly ineffectual or inadequate in themselves. We may give a few interesting instances from each of these groups, some of them gathered from Dr. Tuke's well-known work on the relation of Mind and Body, and from other similar books; others from personal knowledge. I. As examples of the first class--Of cures by faith in the personal power (often supposed to be Divine) of a man--we may cite the case of the power of the touch of kings to cure sickness. Dr. Carpenter tells us, concerning Charles II, "not only theologians of eminent learning, ability, and virtue, gave the sanction of their authority to its behalf, but some of the principal surgeons of the day certified that the cures were so numerous and rapid, that they could not be attributed to any natural cause, and thus the failures were to be ascribed to want of faith on the part of the patients (the identical reason given now for failures). Charles II, in the course of his reign, had touched near a hundred thousand persons." The service appointed by the Church of England for this supposed Divine healing was only withdrawn f jm the Prayer Book after the reign of Queen Anne. Dr. Bouchut states that in 1847 a little girl, Louise Parguin, whom excessive Fear had rendered dumb, and paralyti...