When a child I was severely injured by being thrown from a horse. From that time on, for nine years, I was never free from severe pain, and was confined to my bed part of the time each year. I was compelled to give up my college course and all hope of ever being able to do anything. Conditions grew steadily worse, until I was a hopeless invalid. All was done for me that money and loving care could do; all schools of medicine and other material methods of curing disease were tried, as were also travel, change of climate, etc. The best physicians, here and elsewhere, eminent specialists and surgeons in different cities, were consulted, but none were able to cure me. In Chicago I was treated for five months by one of the best specialists and surgeons in the country for the spinal disease and other troubles, and by an equally eminent oculist for my eyes. To save me from blindness my eyes were operated on three times, and I was finally told that no more could be done for me, that I must always wear glasses (I had then worn them several years), and that I could probably never read more than seven minutes at a time. I was also told by the other specialist that I could not be cured of the spinal disease or the other diseases.
I came home in a dreadful condition. I had had unlimited faith in materia medica (my mother having been a physician), yet the physicians had done all they could to cure me and had failed, and not only was I a wreck physically but mentally. I was finally confined to the bed for five months. I could hardly move, was suffering from partial paralysis, and my eyes were so bad that the room had to be kept dark all the time. I could not be read to, or even talked to much, was delirious at night, and the physicians finally pronounced me incurable, and said mine was one of the worst cases of spinal disease they had ever known.
Finally, as a last resort and with little faith in it, I tried Christian Science treatment. In the first treatment I was perfectly and permanently healed of bowel trouble of eight years' standing, which the physicians said could never be cured. I improved rapidly, and at the end of two weeks I walked into an adjoining room and for two hours sat up and read the Christian Science text-book, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, without glasses and in bright light. I have never worn glasses since and my sight is perfect. I was treated for eleven weeks, at the end of which time I walked five miles, one day, without inconvenience.
