My healing was most remarkable inasmuch as in one absent treatment from a Christian Science practitioner I was healed of a disease said to be peculiar, and pronounced incurable by medical science. I had lived in an extremely high altitude for several years, but was apparently in perfect health, when after an illness of only a few days a disease developed which baffled the most skilled physicians. I had been dismissed from the hospital to which I had been taken during this brief illness, and was waiting for one of the physicians to take me to a hotel, when my mind suddenly became a blank: in an instant and without a moment's warning all remembrance of the past was completely wiped out. I had forgotten even my own name, and what I did or said one moment was forgotten the next.
A few hours after being stricken with this brain trouble a condition of the finger nails developed which caused great suffering, and became more pronounced after each attack of brain trouble. Shortly after this I was stricken with partial paralysis of the right side. The chief surgeon at the hospital advised my husband to take me to a brain specialist, so he immediately planned a trip to the coast, expecting to stop in Spokane, Washington, to visit a sister and consult a specialist. While on the way I was stricken with intense pain in my feet, which soon became badly swollen and inflamed. Upon my arrival in Spokane one of the most eminent surgeons of that city was consulted, but he was completely baffled in his diagnosis, and I continued to grow worse. After about three weeks of this suffering a specialist was consulted, a man considered an authority on brain and nerve diseases. After a most rigid examination he said there was nothing known to medical science that would help me. He positively refused to prescribe for me, saying any drug sufficiently powerful to ease the pain in the feet would be almost certain to cause hemorrhage of the brain. He also said that in all his experience he had never met with such a case.
I had friends in Olympia, Washington, who were Christian Scientists, and having employed the best medical skill available, I decided to go there and try Christian Science. I arrived in the evening and sent for a practitioner at once. He was unable to call that evening, but said he would give me absent treatment. I knew nothing whatever of Christian Science except that a great many people claimed to have been healed by it, so the thought of a stranger giving me an absent treatment seemed absurd. I expected to spend the night in pain, so prepared for this as usual, but I had not been in bed long before I was entirely free from pain. Being very drowsy from loss of sleep, I almost unconsciously reached down and removed the pillow at my feet, letting the covers down. I then went to sleep and slept soundly all night. In the morning it dawned upon me that I had been healed, so I hastened to dress and walked downstairs without assistance.
