TY  - JOUR
T1  - AN aggressive delusion.
Y1  - 1899/07/08
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.02450540051016
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 107
EP  - 107
VL  - XXXIII
IS  - 2
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.02450540051016
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450540051016
ER  -