With the hope that my experience may be of help to others afflicted as I was, I desire to tell of my healing through Christian Science. In the fall of 1901 I noticed a swelling on my left breast. It was painful, and to quite a degree angry and inflamed. In a few days after discovering the bunch I went to Hartford and consulted a leading surgeon. He gave me a remedy to apply, and in a few days I saw him again. By this time the growth had become larger and more painful. The surgeon now for the first time told me that my disease was malignant, and advised an operation at once. In three days the operation was performed, the whole center of the growth being removed, but in less than a year the swelling had returned, and the whole condition was much worse than before. A second operation was now submitted to, which was more extensive than the first. The wound from this second operation refused to heal, and became very much inflamed, with a profuse offensive discharge. The surgeon now called another noted physician in consultation. Both gentlemen pronounced my case malignant, and both strongly advised a third operation, and they said that it should be done at once.
Friends now called my attention to Christian Science. I knew nothing personally of this method of healing, and had very little if any faith in it, but as the most skilful surgeons had utterly failed to help me, I decided to see a Christian Science practitioner. I called upon a practitioner in Hartford, and at once commenced treatment. The gentleman refused to examine the growth, or even to look at it, saying that the healing would be in proportion to his ability to see me only as a perfect child of divine Love. From the first treatment the wound began to heal and my fear to diminish. In six weeks I was perfectly healed, and every sign of the disease had disappeared. I saw the practitioner once a week during treatment, but had an absent treatment each day. For several months before receiving Christian Science treatment I had been obliged almost wholly to give up all active work, but after the first treatment in Christian Science I commenced my business again, driving a pair of spirited horses from fifteen to twenty miles every day over a hard road, making from thirty to forty calls upon customers, and did this without discomfort. It is now nine years since I was healed, and there has never been even a sign of a return of the old disease.
I paid the surgeon and physician several hundred dollars for their attention to me, and during their treatments lost several months from my business. I paid the Christian Science practitioner twenty-five dollars and never lost a day while under treatment with him. Notwithstanding the fact that the surgeon who first operated upon me told me personally that my disease was malignant, and the second physician, who assisted at the operations, fully concurred in this diagnosis, I have learned since I was healed through Christian Science that both these gentlemen have said that my disease was not what they had pronounced it, but simply an old malignant sore that would have healed anyway. I fail to understand why, if the disease was just an old sore, it was thought necessary to remove the whole left breast, as was proposed, and why they both called my case hopeless. — Windsor, Conn.
