Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1895

MARY BAKER EDDY (1821-1910) Science and health. Christian Scientist Publishing Company 1875 By Mary Baker Glover. 456 pp. 19.6 cm.

A disenchantment with orthodox medicine during years of invalidism, together with an intensive study of scripture, led Mary Morse Baker, the daughter of a New England farmer, to the conclusion that disease is mental rather than physical and that matter (and hence evil), as commonly perceived, does not exist. The phenomenal spread of her teaching resulted in the Church of Christ Scientist, with membership of nearly 100,000 members at the time of her death. This first edition of Science and health, which was to be revised repeatedly throughout her lifetime, is the basic handbook of the faith.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.