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Credit: Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![believe that when a promised result was duly obtained the cause thereof was such as it professed itself to be—this old wife practice was both popular and efficacious. Nor is this simple and ignorant form of faith-healing even now altogether a thing of the past. Recorded in the Journals of the Society for Psychical Research are several well - authenticated and % remarkable instances of wart cures of quite recent date. I will quote three or four cases from its pages. (i) The following statement was communi- cated to the Society for Psychical Research by the father of the subject treated, and is as follows :— [.Dated November 23, 1896.] c My little girl was five years old in October last. The warts first appeared before she was a year old, and have been steadily increasing on hands and face. For over two years I have been trying various remedies, such as all the usual wart cures advertised and obtainable at chemists’, as well as those recommended by friends, but without the slightest effect. In fact, I became so uneasy, seeing them increase](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28079826_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
