FIVE years ago, I was healed through Christian Science of valvular heart disease and dropsy of twenty years' standing. At the time of my healing I was immense in size.
When first taken down with these troubles, I became very low, and a consultation of doctors was called. One said that there was no hope; I remember that another said that while there was life there was hope. I became better for a time, but never well, and could never do as others did. I was obliged to be very careful; the doctors forbade me to run or over-exert myself, telling me that if I did, I was liable to pass away at any time. There were days and weeks in which I would suffer intensely. I took the most powerful remedies given for those ailments, and I was continually under a doctor's care.
About six years ago, I was again taken down, and was considered past all help. At times it seemed almost impossible to keep life in my body, and for a period, all were but waiting for the passing away. During this darkest hour, a dear aunt sent me a copy of the Christian Science Journal, from the reading of which, I stopped taking medicines.
