Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes in Science and Health (p. 369), "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood." In the fifty years that the truths revealed by this Science have met my every need, its prophylactic or preventive art has been outstanding in my experience. Difficulties of various kinds have been mastered, but the need for physical healing has been very rare.
Several years ago, however, I became very ill. A practitioner was called, but the condition did not immediately yield. Since it was thought that the disease might be of a contagious nature, it was reported to the health department. A physician diagnosed the condition as typhus fever and said that because of his respect for my religion, he would not offer any suggestions for medication, but would call occasionally.
Every single phase of this disease was completely reversed through Christian Science treatment. There was no period of convalescence, and when the doctor made his last call, he said that he wanted me to inform the practitioner that my recovery had been two weeks sooner than that of any other case of typhus fever which had been reported to the health department up to that time.
