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DRUGS, HYGIENE AND HYPNOTISM

From the February 1892 issue of The Christian Science Journal


The following clipping, taken from the NEW YORK TRIBUNE, illustrates the growing distrust of drugs, even among physicians. It is the experience of a man prominent in his profession. He says:

Doctors, as well as priests, are subject to these periods of depression in which they question the efficacy of their own judgment. In such a mood, while I was superintendent of l' Hospital de——, I divided the treatment of the wards. In the one I exercised the best medical skill that the aid of drugs could afford; in the other I only save as medicine a little acrid water. This experiment I continued for a month with equally good nursing in both wards."

"Well, with what results?" said his listener.

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