I was always an unhealthy, sensitive child, and much effort was made to receive help through materia medica. I went away from home to boarding school when fifteen years old, but suffered much from spinal, eye, and lung disease, and most of all from unhappiness and fear.
At last I was taken with epilepsy and had to leave school. I suffered constantly, though much money was spent on different methods of doctoring.
At this time a friend who had recently come into the light of Christian Science told us about it, and I longed to know more of it, but did not for a year longer. The "rest cure" was tried for three months under the care of a specialist. It consisted in complete inaction and eating all I could swallow. I increased in flesh but not in health.
