Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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    ‘ All sorts of nervous diseases and hysterias, and aches and pains of every description, are cured in abundance, and, in addition, Herr Zeller mentioned that consumption, pneu- monia, gout, and asthma had all been cured. He spoke of a gentleman who had been cured of cancer on the lip. He told of opium-eaters cured, of bone diseases, of eczema and other skin diseases, and of certain tumours. He himself was cured of eczema bv Dorothea j Triidel, and this led to his taking up the work. He had found many mental cases relieved, but no cures of idiots.’1 The Pro- fessor could instance no recoveries from blindness, deafness, dumbness, nor of the swollen neck called goitre, so common a com- plaint in Switzerland. A very famous Swedish faith-healer is mv next and last instance of this class. This is Frederick August Boltzius, born Karlstadt in 1836. Left penniless at an early age by a father who died of drink, his youth was not a happy one. Several times he attempted suicide, but surviving his efforts and awaking 1 See Dr. Schofield’s book already referred to, pp. 20-28.