When a young man I suffered from an attack of diphtheria, and after that my throat was in a very weak condition. I took cold easily, which would go either to the head or lungs. I was for years under the almost daily care of a doctor for various complications. About four years ago a doctor diagnosed my case as a pulmonary trouble; said my lungs were weak, and that one of them had a cavity in it.
About two and a half years ago, while sitting at my desk in an office of the treasury department, in Washington, D. C, I commenced to hiccough. As I had had occasional attacks of the trouble and always stopped them by using some simple remedy, not much attention was given to this for several hours. As it became annoying to people around me, I tried all the remedies that I knew and several that friends recommended, but all failed to relieve me. To make a long story short, the hiccoughs lasted for seventeen days, though I had daily visits from the doctor. The last six hours the trouble was an almost constant hiccough, with scarcely any intermission between the spasms. This left me with a terrible hacking cough, which continued for about two weeks longer, when, finding that I was growing weaker all the time, with no relief from the doctor's attention, I determined to try Christian Science, no matter what the result might be. It had been recommended to me very strongly and frequently during my illness by a niece who had been healed of pneumonia, as had also her husband of a very severe case of nervous prostration. I was finally persuaded to attend a meeting at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Washington, D. C, one Wednesday evening.
I attended the meeting the next Sunday and was told where and when to come for treatment. I did so, and I was perfectly healed of tuberculosis of the throat and lungs in three weeks' treatment. I feel confident that I was healed in the second week if not the first, but I was in such a weakened condition that strength was needed to make the healing perfect. My cough gradually lessened, and although strength was longer in returning, I was well! I resumed my duties at the office a few days after the treatments commenced. The doctor, on being dismissed from further attendance, remarked to my wife that he would not have been surprised had he seen crape on the door two days before. I was in such an enfeebled state physically that I did not know at the time how serious my condition was. Now that I have realized my source of healing, I give sincere thanks to our Father-Mother God, and to Mrs. Eddy through whom this great revelation has come. I am to-day in better health, thanks be to God, than I have been since entering the army as a young man, forty-four years ago.
