I read nearly every book of importance that had been published on this theme -- including Mrs. Eddy's books, all the standard works on hypnotism, mind-cure, faith-cure, new thought, etc. ❋ Hereward Carrington (1919)
But I fooled the pair of them, and dosed them with their own medicine, which was faith-cure. ❋ Unknown (1913)
The treatment to which they resorted partook of the nature of a faith-cure. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
He had surrounded her with doctors, trained nurses, massage-women, and even faith-cure companions, but they were useless. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Physicians I've felt that way about homeopathy and the faith-cure. ❋ Owen Wister (1899)
It must be remembered that our own medical system has its remote origin in the same mythic conception of disease, and that within two hundred years judicial courts have condemned women to be burned to death for producing sickness by spells and incantations, while even at the present day our faith-cure professors reap their richest harvest among people commonly supposed to belong to the intelligent classes. ❋ James Mooney (1891)
Hope grasps at a straw, and it was quite in keeping with the condition of Martha's mind that she should open her ears and her heart when they told her of the wonderful works of the faith-cure man. ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)
"I suppose," he said, when this was disposed of, "that Mrs. Frostwinch is too much wrapped up in faith-cure nonsense to take much interest in your holy war against Strathmore." ❋ Arlo Bates (1884)
After a couple of days the kahuna drops around to see how his victim is getting on, and generally he finds him in low spirits, with a meagre appetite, because this process is as reliable as its opposite, which is called faith-cure. ❋ Unknown (1879)
They afford a most admirable class of subjects for mind-cure and faith-cure doctors. ❋ Unknown (1877)
There were other times when Dr. Beswick's infecting bacteria germinated in her imagination and threatened destruction to her faith, and yet other times when sheer repulsion from Miss Bowyer's cant of metaphysical and Christian therapeutics inclined her to renounce the belief in faith-cure, which seemed somehow a second cousin to this grotesque science. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
Agatha refrained from an allusion to faith-cure that rose to her lips, and finding that Phillida was growing curious she turned to a new subject. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
The prevailing interest in mind-cure, faith-cure, Christian science, and other sorts of aërial therapeutics has supplied a motive for this story, and it is only proper that I should feel a certain gratitude to the advocates of the new philosophy. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
"On the contrary, it would have added fifty dollars to the price of this copy if the original page had been complete, or if it could have been mended without a possibility of detection -- say by a process of faith-cure." ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
I understand from the mother that the faith-cure won't work. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
Science, -- the new science of mental healing, faith-cure, psychopathy, -- by which you act on the spirit and through the spirit upon the body. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
It's as much above the rude method of primitive faith-cure practised by the apostles as the heavens are above the earth. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
It is not faith-cure, but it is an acknowledgment of certain Christian and scientific laws, and to work a cure the practitioner must understand these laws aright. ❋ Mary Baker Eddy (1865)
