The following statement, published in the Boston Evening Traveller, relates to a recent case in Buffalo, that was telegraphed all over the country as one of the failures and abuses of Christian Science. The misstatement in the Traveller was seen by Mr. Hardy, while attending Mrs. Eddy's class, but was doubtless published in hundreds of other papers, whose readers will never see the contradiction:
"The case in question was what is termed a severe case of pleuro-pneumonia, and was under materia medica until pronounced by the physician convalescent. About the time her illness appeared there also appeared to be felt a severe pain about the right arm and shoulder. This from the first was treated by her physician as a matter of small consequence, he giving as his opinion that it was a neuralgic pain in sympathy with the disease from which she was suffering. To show his appreciation of the case, he recommended bathing with alcohol and water. The result was—no reflection on C. S. but vice versa.
"The friends of Mrs. Chamberlain, finding she was not being benefited by medical treatment, advised her to consult Christian Science, the one thus particularly advising having had a daughter healed in two weeks from a two-years' wheeling-chair infirmity, a son and daughter of eye infirmity, and herself also of a chronic infirmity.
