Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER V ON TESTIMONY ‘ The reliability of testimony depends not only upon the con- veyance of the information being correctly performed, but also upon its having been correctly obtained; not only upon the veracity of the witness, but also upon his cognisance of the matter in hand.’—A. F. Ravenshear in Mind. The subject of testimony may now be con- sidered, and the extent to which the accounts given by lay persons of the cure of their diseases and the specification of the latter can be accepted without verification. To put it mildly, the statement of a person altogether ignorant of medical science is un- satisfactory as regards these two points of information. Surely some special knowledge is necessary to determine the nature of most ailments, especially when these are of an inter- nal character, since, not only do such often perplex experienced practitioners, but they are