RT Journal
T1 AN aggressive delusion.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD July 8
VO XXXIII
IS 2
SP 107
OP 107
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450540051016
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450540051016
AB The Journal has so often called attention to the homicidal pretenders who call themselves "Christian Scientists" and faith healers, that the subject is anything but an agreeable one, but it is one that constantly obtrudes itself in more aggravated form. One of the latest cases is that in which a child was suffered to die for lack of proper treatment while the healers were telegraphing to the notorious Dowie for the benefit of his "absent prayers." The especially aggravating feature of the case, however, was the aggressive policy and behavior of the faith healer. After the father had called a physician, under whose treatment the child had begun to mend, the "divine healers" actively interfered and destroyed the medicines left. Another physician was called by a relative and they constantly and actively interfered with the attendant left in charge by the doctor. Finally they succceeded in preventing any proper medical