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SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

Mr. R. O. Badgely, of Cincinnati, Ohio, wrote: “My painful and swollen foot was restored at once on your A foot injured receipt of my letter, and that very day I put on my boot and walked several miles.” He had previously written me: “A stick of timber fell on my foot, from a building, crushing the bones. Cannot you help me? I am sitting in great pain, with my foot in a bath.”


Lynn, June, 1873.

My little son, a year and a half old, had ulcerations of the bowels, and was a great sufferer. He was reduced almost to Sick child. a skeleton, and growing worse daily. He could take nothing but gruel, or some very simple nourishment. At that time the physicians had given him up, saying they could do no more for him, and he was taking laudanum. Mrs. Eddy came in, took him up from the cradle, held him a few minutes, kissed him, laid him down again, and went out. In less than an hour he was taken up, had his playthings, and was well. All his symptoms changed at once. For months previously blood and mucus had passed his bowels, but that day the evacuation was natural, and he has not suffered from his complaint since. He is now well and hearty. The next day after she saw him he ate all he wanted. He even ate a quantity of cabbage just before going to bed.

L. C. Edgecomb.


I was called to visit Mr. Clark, in Lynn, confined to his bed six months with hip-disease, caused by a fall upon a wooden spike, when quite a boy. On Hip-disease. house I met his physician, who said he was dying. He had just probed the ulcer on the