Rev. M. B G. Eddy: I can add one more testimony of a cure from reading your book, Science and Health. Five years ago I lay prostrate with piles and inflammation of the bowels. All the coating came off, apparently. A stricture was formed beyond medical reach. I then lived in Chicago. One of the best physicians, who made a specialty of treating piles, attended me. The pain was relieved, but my bowels were inactive and remained so until New Year's Eve.
I determined to trust all to God or die, before I would take any more medicine, as I never had an action unless I took a free dose of some laxative. If I forgot to take the medicine one night, or allowed myself, to be without it, I had a terrible sick-headache for two and three days, and terrible backache. I never had backache at any other time, and my piles would be so much inflamed, in two days' time, that I could hardly tell where I suffered the worst.
Since I have learned to trust all to God I have not had the least trouble with the piles, nor one twinge of the backache. I have an easy action of the bowels each morning. It was five days after I resolved to leave medicine alone, before a natural movement took place, and ever since I have been perfectly regular. It was a great effort for me to take that step, for I knew I was running the risk of throwing myself back into all misery, and perhaps into a worse state than I was in before. By reading Science and Health, I learned that God was able to save the body as well as the soul, and I believed His promises were for me.
