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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Biographical Sketch 7-18
II History of the Manuscripts 19-26
III Quimby's Restoration to Health 27-35
IV The Mesmeric Period 36-48
V The Principles Discovered 49-62
VI The Intermediate Period 63-72
VII Early Writings 73-85

To the Sick in Body and Mind; Spiritualism and Mesmerism; Letter to a Patient; To a Patient; Mr. Quimby's Method.

VIII Contemporary Testimony 86-108
IX Letters from Patients 109-116
X Letters to Patients 117-132
XI Letters to Patients and Inquirers  133-151
XII Mrs. Eddy: 1862-1875 152-164
XIII Questions and Answers 165-178
XIV Christ or Science 179-229

Mind is Spiritual Matter; What is Disease? How does the Mind Produce Disease? Mind is Not Intelligence: Is the Curing of Disease a Science? Is Disease a Belief? Life and Disease; Disease; Love I; What is My Theory; Clairvoyance; Love II; How Dr. Quimby Cures; Another World; Your Position; My Theory; Establishing a Science; Two Sciences; Christ and Truth; Difference Between My Belief and Others; True and False Christs; Your True Position; My Religion; Happiness; Prayer I; Prayer II; How I Hold My Patients; How I Cure the Sick; Do People Really Believe What They Think? Jesus and Christ; Wrong Use of Words; Harmony I; Harmony II; Difference of Opinion About the Dead; Resurrection; A Communication; My Use of the Word Mind.

XV The World of the Senses  230-274

To the Reader; False Reports Concerning My Religious Belief; Mind; The Scientific Man; The Natural Man; Death of the Natural Man; The Senses; How the Senses Are Deceived; The Senses and Language; Man's Identity; The Effect of Mind on Mind; Imagination; How the Opinions of Physicians Operate; Obstacles in Establishing a New Science; Mind and Disease; Do We Know All We Write or Say?

XVI Disease and Healing 275-322

The Reception of this Great Truth; Concerning Beliefs; Works the Fruit of Our Belief; The Relation of this Truth to the Sick; Parable; Answer to a Question; Cures; Is There Any Curative Quality in Medicine? Outlines of a New Theory for Curing Disease; Disease; Disease, Love and Courage; What Do I Impart to My Patients? Experience of a Patient; The Silent Method; Treatment of a Child; The Healing Principle; Health and Disease; Learning to Heal; Strength; Mind and Disease.

XVII God and Man 323-349

On Wisdom; The Christian's God; Man; Love.

XVIII Religious Questions 350-381

Defence Against an Accusation of Making Myself Equal to Christ; Religion in Disease; Jesus' Healing and His Message; Religon; The Effect of Religion on Health; Controversy About the Dead; The Resurrection; Another World; What is Religion; The Other World; Defence Against an Accusation of Putting Down Religion.

XIX Science, Life, Death 382-428

Science; Christian Science; Life; Man and Woman; Light; Death; Thoughts; Editor's Summary.

Appendix 429-438

List of Quimby's Writings. The Quimby-Eddy Controversy.

Photographic Reproductions of Manuscripts  443



THE
QUIMBY MANUSCRIPTS

Edited by H.W.DRESSER


THE

QUIMBY MANUSCRIPTS


EDITED BY

HORATIO W. DRESSER

Author of “Outlines of the Psychology of Religion,” etc.






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