ot treated; the disease as a disease is not
treated; the symptoms are not treated; but the entire physical
organism, with its many parts and diverse functions, is
exhaustively examined until each and every abnormal condition,
whether of structure or of function, causing disease and
maintaining symptoms, is found and administered to with the skill
of a definite art, based upon the data of an exact science.

Likewise the truths underlying Christian Science have been disdained by
medical schools and medical experts, just as its spiritual truth has
been disdained by religious leaders, until it has grown to such
strength that laymen are almost forced to question the sincerity and
the efficacy of the conventional in religion as well as medicine. In
May, 1907, the Emmanuel Church in Boston organized a clinic for the
purpose of utilizing for neurasthenics particularly both the spiritual
and the physical truths underlying religion and the various branches of
medical science. Daily papers and magazines are giving a great deal of
space to this experiment in "psychotherapy," which is discussed in the
chapter on Mental Hygiene. Schools and chairs in preventive hygiene
would soon give to the medical profession a point of view that would
welcome every new truth, such as the alliance of religion and medicine,
and estimate its full worth promptly. Truth seeking would be not only
encouraged but made a condition of professional standing.

Just what attitude any particular physician takes can be learned by the
teacher or parents whose children he treats. If he pooh-poohs or
resents board of health regulations as to isolation of scarlet-fever
patients, he is a dangerous man, no matter how noble his personal
character. If he says cross-eyes will straighten, weak eyes will
strengthen, or nose-stopping adenoids "absorb," he is bound to do harm.
If he says tuberculosis is incurable, noncommunicable, hereditary, or
curable by drugs, or if he tries to cure cancer by osteopathy, he can
do more injury than an insane criminal. If he fails to teach a mother
how to bathe, feed, and clothe the baby, how to ventilate a room for
the sick or the well, he is an expensive luxury for family or for
school, and belongs to an age that knew neither school nor preventive
hygiene. If he takes no interest in health administration; if he
overlooks unclean milk or unclean streets, open sewers, and unsanitary
school buildings, street cars, churches, and t