Last winter a gentleman, suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, asked for Christian Science treatment. It was given absently. His family had great fear, the neighbors also holding the belief that he could not last long. He did not improve as rapidly as desired, so he came to this city and called upon a practitioner each day for about two weeks and had treatment; then returned to his home on a farm and continued absent treatment.
In a few weeks he wrote that his appetite had come to stay with him and said: "I have not been troubled for some time with the distress in my stomach. I am little more than skin and bones and am still weak, but can breathe better, and walk farther each day, and now am sleeping well." In about six weeks he wrote again: "The noise in my side has largely disappeared; also lameness in my right arm destroyed." (He had needed help to put on his coat.) "I have just painted two wagons; am now able to use my arm with very little pain and can lie on my right side. My cough is spasmodic and quite annoying."
In about ten days he wrote again: "I care for and milk two cows, care for over twenty shotes, and work in the garden. I am getting along nicely. Trouble in my side entirely gone; my arm and hand gradually improving." I enquired: "How would you like to demonstrate for yourself a month?" He was ready, as he was gaining right along and was doing more work each day. He wrote: "If I were at your place now, I would not need to use the elevator as I can now run upstairs like a boy."
