YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. received As Written: receivd in which you ask me to write particulars of my health. I am at a loss how to reply. To my daughterEditorial Note: Mary B. Day or Jessie Day I said "Mrs Eddy wishes me to write her particulars of my health, what shall I say?." "Tell her" was the reply that you are perfectly well." This I think is about the truth. Since my study of ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and truth. I give myself no concerns on the health question.

From my boyhood I was affected with a loud cough which gave others seeming concern. It grew chronic – into a habit. It has now almost entirely disappeared. What of it yet remains is merely a habit – if indeed any of it does remain.

I eat and sleep normally and as before said, I have so little thought about health that now I can only say as Mrs Day says of me "You are perfectly well."

I do not know if I have satisfactorily replied to your requests

Some years ago friends who were seemingly troubled about my cough, advised me to consult a surgeon To please them I did so. I was stethoscoped et ceteraAs Written:&c et ceteraAs Written:&c and the surgeon pronounced my lungs perfectly sound. When younger. I took a medical Course, and attended Lectures in PhiladelphiaEditorial Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I was soon convinced that "Materia Medica" was a humbug, and have long since declined having recourse to the Physical Doctors.

With the Exception of a little Quinine I do not recollect As Written: reccollect of having taken a dose of Medicine in 20 years.

I had reached in my scripture investigations a theory that Disease was not a physical reality and that the Doctors kn ew nothing of its reality and so asserted from the pulpit. I further endeavored to have my family ignore and distrust the Medical School. It may hereafter, seem to you a little singular, how near an approximation to the truth as you declare it, my study of the Bible for fifteen years led me. And an impression is laying hold of me more and more, that your cordial invitation to become a subordinate assistant in your great work. is not without some reason higher than human