Christian Science and the Medical Profession Before the Massachusetts Legislature.—A circular signed by a considerable number of M. D.'s was lately sent to every county in the State, inquiring the names of physicians in attendance on the members of the legislature, and urging to bring pressure on them in favor of a restrictive medical law.
Thursday, January 24, at a hearing before the Judiciary Committee, an allopathic physician urged that all practitioners be required to pass, before a medical board, a satisfactory examination in Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Chemistry, and Obstetrics, so as to exclude from practice clairvoyants, magnetizers, Christian Scientists, and "other quacks."
An adjourned hearing took place February 5, at which Mr. Stearns spoke for Christian Science, and stated that his own wife, after employing in vain the best medical talent, was healed by a Scientist in six treatments; that the patients of Christian Scientists are, as a class, superior in intelligence and social position to those of physicians in any school of medical practice, and that he could at this moment point out in the Adams House, Boston, (where he stops) one of the best Boston hotels, twenty persons who had been healed by Christian Science.
