and the medical profession have played into the hands of Christian Science by ignoring the facts that Mrs. Eddy has been occupied in distorting.
However much it may have been possible in the past for the doctor and the parson in dealing with the less nervous, more easy-going type to look upon him as composed of two distinct and separate parts, body and spirit respectively, having no intimate relationship and amenable to quite different influences, such a view of men and women is to-day out of the question. To entertain it for a moment is to court failure. Mind and matter act and react upon one another, and more than this, without faith all human enterprise would be stultified. Faith plays no less important a part in medical treatment than it does in the more commonplace affairs of life. This aspect of the question cannot be better expressed than it has been recently by Professor Osler.[1]
'Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith—the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible. Intangible as the ether, in-*
- ↑ 'From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford.
'Nov. 18th, '09.
'Dear Sir,—'The question as you say bristles with difficulties, but no doubt in the stirring of the pool healing in some form or another will be the outcome. You are of course at liberty to use any writings of mine.—Sincerely yours,
W. Osler.'
