The physicians of Worcester started out to excite a little furor among her citizens, but gave up from prudential motives. One of our practitioners had a case of scarlet fever, and successfully carried it. It came to the ears of the medical faculty, and at first they thought they had found something that would suppress, if not destroy, Christian Science in Worcester. One provision of the law the practitioner had failed to comply with, that of reporting the case to the Board of Health; and it was claimed that this infection was being spread through Worcester because of the non compliance of said practitioner with the law in this respect.
Christian Science has a great many adherents in this place, and they were very anxious to have the question agitated; when, to and behold, all proceedings were quashed! The physicians did not wish to place Christian Science on the same footing with regular medical practice. If they were conscientious in their statements, and were the humanitarians they profess to be, they should have pushed the proceedings. If they had, it would have been demonstrated that the practitioner skilfully carried her case, and that no contagion resulted therefrom; and the people would have learned the advantage to be derived from having honest Christian Scientists healing this disease, which the medical faculty, tacitly or otherwise, acknowledge to be beyond their power to cope with.
