I Would like to cite the Scientific cure of two apparently hopeless cases of the morphine habit made a few years ago which have stood the test of time.
A man who was a drummer-boy in the late war, being injured in one of the battles, was removed to a hospital where the attending physician, to relieve his suffering, gave him hypodermic injections of morphine. He remained some months in the hospital receiving this narcotic quite often, until, as he believed, the desire for it had a strong hold upon him. For twenty-four years thereafter he continued to use the drug, gradually increasing the amount injected into his system, until its deleterious effects became alarmingly apparent both to himself and his friends.
All self-effort to overcome the habit had long been useless, and his widowed mother had, with tears, appealed to the family physician and other doctors, to save her son, but was told there was no cure for him, that he would some day take an overdose and death would follow. Most fortunately Christian Science was now brought to their attention. His mother urged him to take treatment. He consented to do so. The third day of the treatment the case chemicalized severely, but on the fourth day he arose from his bed, healed. Dr. Greely, the family physician, hearing of the demonstration, said, "If he is healed it is nothing less than a miracle," and "a miracle" it proved to be.
