I wish to add my testimony to the thousands of others that illustrate the power of divine Truth to heal all our diseases. For seven years I had been an invalid, constantly under the physician's care. I was in the hospital three times in two years, had two operations, one major and one minor, and as a result of the former was in bed almost three months. The object for which the operation was performed was never realized, the conditions being worse than before. Accompanying these was chronic neuritis, which caused constant pain, and in periodic acute attacks could be controlled only by sedatives. In one attack with my eyes, even opiates failed to bring relief. I could not see daylight for a time, but was in a darkened room for ten weeks. This attack left the vision greatly impaired. The two most serious complications were sleeplessness, which was beyond the control of medicine, and a partial paralysis of the bowels, which seemed hopeless.
In all this time I tried many of the best physicians, nerve specialists, and oculists, also other methods of treatment, including suggestion; and when these failed me, together with the operations, there was nothing left to try in a material way. This is where Christian Science found me.
I had been misled by psychologists to believe that Christian Science was a form of therapeutic suggestion, and I thought I had tried that sufficiently. I discovered my mistake when I learned of the healing of a baby nine months old. I called upon the same practitioner for help, and dispensed with the drugs which seemed a daily necessity. From the first treatment the half-paralyzed condition of the bowels was healed, and the sleeplessness, which I did not even mention to the practitioner because I thought she could not manage so much all at once, vanished together with the neuritis. By the time I had taken five treatments I was regenerated physically and mentally.
