Four years ago Christian Science found me in a very despondent and discouraged condition, as I had suffered for almost five years with a most stubborn as well as complicated case of eye trouble. I underwent two operations, both of which proved unsuccessful, and had every known treatment and the best specialists San Francisco afforded. With all this, upon three different occasions I became totally blind. These spells returning more frequently, even after the most severe kinds of treatment, the oculist came to the conclusion that it was but a matter of time until I would become blind for life. Acting upon this theory, he gave up my case, saying that all which medical skill could do for me had been done.
Friends of mine who were ardent Christian Scientists had urged me to try Science, and with them, upon this occasion, I left the doctor's office and visited a Christian Science practitioner that same afternoon. Explaining all thoroughly to her, and telling her, too, that I was skeptical, the practitioner nevertheless took my case, giving me a treatment at this time. After she had finished, the pain in my temples, which had never left me during these many years of suffering, became more intense, and was simply unbearable. We were walking down the street when I noticed that even the little I had been able to see with my glasses before treatment, was impossible now. Thinking the glasses were smoky, I cleaned them three times, but could not use them, and finally I placed them in my purse. This done, the intense pain left me instantaneously, and to my great astonishment I could read the signs, etc., as we walked along. Returning next day, the practitioner asked me where my glasses were. She smiled when I told her, and said, "I could have told you yesterday, when leaving the office, that you had no further need for them, but you were too skeptical." After the second treatment I could see to read and write without any difficulty.
After just one week's treatment I was called home, owing to my mother's illness. I took charge of her office work, being able to assume all the duties, in which bookkeeping figured an important part. Two weeks of absent treatment completed the cure, since which time I have been able to do the most difficult kinds of clerical work without any ill effect, and cannot relize now that I ever wore the strongest of glasses or endured those years of suffering.
