Said a visitor the other day, "I have a friend in the town of H. who is much out of health. I told her of my own wonderful cure in Science and urged her to take treatment, when she confessed she had already done so, but was ashamed to own it because it had done her no good. To my questions about the practitioner she replied, "Oh, he is a follower of Mrs. Eddy;" and added that he told her to lie down often to rest, to be very careful about diet and general habits,—gave her, in short, a lecture on hygiene.
Think of that for a pretended student of Mrs. Eddy, who doubtless, to get credit with the public, "recognizes Science and Health as the text-book of Science!" And people all over the country are being defrauded, and the name of Science dishonored by such, or worse, pretenders.
No one that has ever read Science and Health needs to be warned that any practitioner who calls himself a Scientist and at the same time tells a patient to "lie down to rest," or to "be careful about diet," or inculcates "laws of health," or gives material medicine, or talks of the power of the human mind, or uses or recommends anything but Christian Science Mind-healing, is an unprincipled quack—worse than any medical quack.
