A treatise on the miracles of Christ and mind healing of the present day as viewed by a physician

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Preface

The present is not a detailed life of Jesus of Nazareth, Who is called Christ. Nearly every modern language abounds in books of that class. Our aim is to set forth the view the physician can and must take of the miraculous cures wrought by the Savior of mankind on the sick who came to Him for help.

Religious controversy and questions of theology as belonging to an entirely different field of thought, and to theologians ex professo, have been most studiously avoided by the author.

The matter under consideration is treated according to the rules and conclusions of medical science made use of in diagnosis and analysis.

This book, therefore, will primarily be of interest to the colleagues of our profession, many of whom may not infrequently have occasion to be questioned concerning the cures wrought by Christ.

To thoughtful laymen this little volume may also be helpful.

It is customary in the preface to any work to give the sources of information from whence the author has drawn. Our principal source is the Holy Bible. We are aware that some question the Divine inspiration of Sacred Scripture, but we also know that very few deny the historical accuracy of the Biblical records.

The miraculous cures of Jesus are undisputed historical facts.

In order that we may not be accused of plagiarism we admit that in the arrangement and treatment of our subject we were somewhat under the influence of a little book published in German several years ago and entitled, "Christus Medicus?" (meaning was Christ a physician).

Those of our readers, however, who have perused the German work will not fail to notice the difference between the two in nearly every respect.

If this volume should dispel the doubts of only one person concerning the person and work of Christ we shall consider ourselves amply repaid.

REINHOLD WILLMAN,

301 North Eleventh Street, St. Joseph, Mo.