Advocatus Diaboli
Posts: 198 Joined: Nov. 2007
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Way back in the Good Ol' Days smart theists knew how to spot a quack. Faith-Healing Christian Science and Kindred Phenomena, from 1892, written by J. M. Buckley (editor of Christian Advocate).
Quote | "Tumors are often mistaken for cancers, and cancers are of different species - some incurable by any means known to the medical profession, others curable. It is by these differences that quack cancer-doctors thrive. When the patient has anything resembling cancer, they promptly apply some salve, and if the patient recovers he signs a certificate saying that he was cured of a cancer of a most terrible character which would have been fatal in three months or six weeks; or when the quack himself writes the certificate for the patient to sign, which is generally the case, the time in which the cancer would have proved fatal may be reduced to a few days. There is also a difference in tumors: some inder no circumstances cause death; others are liable to become as fatal as a malignant pustule." |
Miracle cure or misdiagnosis?
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