What shall make us whole? or, Thoughts in the direction of man's spiritual and physical integrity / by Helen Bigelow Merriman.

  • Merriman, Helen Bigelow, 1844-1933.
Date:
1888
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Credit: What shall make us whole? or, Thoughts in the direction of man's spiritual and physical integrity / by Helen Bigelow Merriman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    nature. This is what we should expect if the true divine order has been found, and the central force touched which moves all things together, both spiritual and physical. Harm has been done in some cases because extremists in the new practice have not added patience and knowledge to their faith. In their eagerness to bring their idealism to bear they have ignored the actual, and have been unmindful of the supreme delicacy and difficulty of the task of adjusting details in that border- land where the ideal and the actual meet. Some unwise ones have insisted, for ex- ample, that an aged woman, dying of a terrible disease, should abandon all the palliatives that were making her last hours endurable, and trust herself wholly to faith in the hope of a cure. Speedy and suffering death ensued. The patient was too far gone; she had too slight a hold on the physical to make it possible for