About the year 1862 Dr. Quimby's home was in Belfast, MeExpanded:Maine, and he hpracticed as a magnetic physician at Portland in the same state.

How it happened that I should seek help from such a physician source was this how About At that time I was a patint Corrected: patient at Dr Vale's Hydropathic institute in Hill, N, H.Expanded:New Hampshire when one Julius A. Dresser who had been at a patient of Dr: Vale's but went away fronm the institute uncured not healed returned hale and hearty We naturally enquired the cause of [?] Unclear or illegible  all this & he told us in exuberant spirits that he had been was restored to health by one Dr. P. P. Quimby in Portland Meaine This caused quite a stampede of invileds Corrected: invalids from the present hydropathic institute & I was one of those.

When I found myself in Portland at the office of the aforesad Corrected: aforesaid Quby Corrected: Quimby & before I [?] Unclear or illegible  was treated by [?] Unclear or illegible  him at all I felt remarkably improved in health this is so much [?] Unclear or illegible  for my f [?] Unclear or illegible aith in the doctor His manner of treating his patients was this. He sat by a table on it was a basnin of water We sat beside him. He dipped his hand in the water & l [?] Unclear or illegible aid it on the stomach somewhat much to my discomfort le [?] Unclear or illegible st he shdExpanded:should injure my dress. He would sometimes place a n [?] Unclear or illegible apkin bewtween his hand & our dress. then After a little he would rise imurse Corrected: immerse his ha [?] Unclear or illegible nd again in the water & rub my head vigorously wetting his hand repeatedly mean whileCorrected:meanwhile. This comprised his entire treamtment of me.

I had the curiosity to ask him one day why he wet his hands what what was the benefit it was pathologically of wetting his hands using water & rubbing his patients He replied in substance & most ingenouously that "friction evolved electricity & water was a good medium for conveying this electricity throughout the system"

This was a poser to me who ha [?] Unclear or illegible d believed in homiopathy Corrected: homeopathy and eschuedCorrected:eschewed [?] Unclear or illegible  magnetic systems for but I concluded that if it indeed it was charlatanism a woul [?] Unclear or illegible d test its effects overn me. I asked the doctor several times to tell mee Corrected: me his theory of practice & his reply in other words how he healed the sick "I camot Corrected: cannot tell you how" which I interprete [?] Unclear or illegible d as meaning that he hinself Corrected: himself did not know [?] Unclear or illegible  So far as I [?] Unclear or illegible  knew him he seemed a very kind heartedCorrected:kindhearted man & a hdeep thinker. His remarks on animal magnetism were peculiar & in advance of any onesCorrected:anyone's whom I eve [?] Unclear or illegible r heard converse on the subject.

He told me on Corrected: one day that when his son Stephen was dying he put him into a hypnotic state & his son believed that he was fishing in a certain pond & the doctor ad [?] Unclear or illegible ded that if he believed that after he died the first thing he would know was to find hinself Corrected: himself fishing. He told me that he formerly sometimes made his patients vomit but adminstered Corrected: administered no drugs it was done through animal magnitism Corrected: magnetism .

I never heard from his lips aught to indicate that he relied on anything but t [?] Unclear or illegible he divine Principle of m [?] Unclear or illegible an's being whereby to heal the sick [See Dressers article]

He was not a scientific thinker or talker in any sense He was an unlear [?] Unclear or illegible ned man and apparently not accustomed at all to investigate either systems of medicine or religion After treatng Corrected: treating his patents Corrected: patients he [?] Unclear or illegible  would retire into a small anti roomCorrected:anteroom & write rapidly I enquired one day what this meant & I understood him to say he told me he wrote out a description of patients Corrected: patients' cases I asked him to let me see his de [?] Unclear or illegible scription of mine He did & it was much after this manner. a personal description and [?] Unclear or illegible  of me & the great grief that he felt after treating me and thought I must be a woman of sorrowIsa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. .

Altogether he was a remar [?] Unclear or illegible kable man. This was an expression of his to me at one time "I believe that I am a JohnEditorial Note: John the Baptist & you are a Jesus. Some of my patients envy you because I prophecy Corrected: prophesy of your future life some thingCorrected:something w [?] Unclear or illegible onderful. I asked him what it was but he could not say.

I never took a lesson of him on the subject of healng Corrected: healing or anythig Corrected: anything else I never knew that he instructed one of this patents Corrected: patients in his method of healing. He did some wonderful cures but it was always a mystery to me how it was done. He did not cure me I was not restored to health until after h [?] Unclear or illegible is death & my discovery of Chritn Corrected: Christian Science,

I was told told The manuscripts that have since been published and alleged to be Dr: Quimby's Mss were in my own hand writingCorrected:handwriting at the time of his death. [?] Unclear or illegible  They were copies he comncedCorrected:commenced & [?] Unclear or illegible afterwards handed them to me to make over which I did & they were literally my so changed that they were my own composition [?] Unclear or illegible  And [?] Unclear or illegible  Some dyisloyal My students of C SExpanded:Christian Science hold copies writings of mine on that the subject of Christian ScinceCorrected:Science which they have not been returned to me Whoever Those who reads my works on Christian Scince Corrected: Science can decide for themseles Corrected: themselves as to their foundations and learn unquestionabably Corrected: unquestionably my views of the magnetic treatment of the sick If I were to chose between say of Dr Mr Qumby's magnetic treatment of the and the old schools'Corrected:school's system of mediceneCorrected:medicine I dread which was most deletereous Corrected: deleterious I should decide that the latter is less subtle less hidden in error and its forms error manf [?] Unclear or illegible  manifold than the fromerCorrected:former. [?] Unclear or illegible 

When I discovered the Principle of Metaphysical [?] Unclear or illegible  healing C. S,Expanded:Christian Science my great difficulty hindrance, was in know how learning the [?] Unclear or illegible  proper the [?] Unclear or illegible  application of this [?] Unclear or illegible  Principle to heal this Principle in healing the sick the sick My first thought was to try Quimby's method and of using water and rubbing the head I taught a few students this [?] Unclear or illegible  this to try this process [?] Unclear or illegible  and I soon learned and massages to the head learned from that [?] Unclear or illegible  sad [?] Unclear or illegible  experience that that what I had discoved Corrected: discovered could never be demonstrad Corrected: demonstrated in that manner of and dropped it and found the right rule of for applying in Principle could never demonstrate what I had discovered and dropped it

Discovery

Mine was not the discovery of a continent nor the foundnging or buil [?] Unclear or illegible ding of a nation as RomulusEditorial Note: According to Roman mythology, Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, were the sons of Rhea Silvia by the god Mars. They founded a town upon Palatine Hill, where they were suckled by a she-wolf as orphaned infants. During a petty quarrel, however, Remus was slain by his brother. Romulus then became ruler of the settlement, which was named “Rome” after him, in 753 BC, and ruled for 37 years until his death in 716 BC. As the first king of Rome, he is noted for forming the Roman Senate with one hundred men and giving the inhabitants of Rome a body of laws. It is unclear to what extent a historical figure underlies the mythical Romulus. found built Rome