Transcriber’s notes: The text of this e-book has been preserved in its original form apart from silent correction of a few minor punctuation flaws (missing commas and full stops). There are occasional spelling inconsistencies as a consequence of its multiple authorship. One missing footnote marker has been inserted at what seemed an appropriate position. Footnotes have been numbered and relocated below the relevant paragraphs. MEDICINE AND THE CHURCH MEDICINE AND THE CHURCH BEING A SERIES OF STUDIES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND THE CHURCH’S MINISTRY TO THE SICK BY SIR CLIFFORD ALLBUTT, K.C.B., F.R.S. A. W. ROBINSON, D.D. CHARLES BUTTAR, M.D. STEPHEN PAGET, F.R.C.S. BISHOP OF BLOEMFONTEIN. HON. SYDNEY HOLLAND. PREBENDARY FAUSSET, M.A. JANE WALKER, M.D. T. B. HYSLOP, M.D. ELLIS ROBERTS. M. CARTA STURGE. H. G. G. MACKENZIE, M.A., M.B. EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY GEOFFREY RHODES WITH A FOREWORD BY THE LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., LTD., DRYDEN HOUSE, GERRARD STREET, W. 1910 FOREWORD BY THE LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER FARNHAM CASTLE, SURREY: _July 4, 1910_. Dear Mr. Geoffrey Rhodes, The appearance of your volume is very welcome. There is, I believe, a real need for such a work. You are to be congratulated on the results of the energy and patience which you have bestowed upon its preparation. You have a true reward in the support of writers so varied and conspicuous in distinction as those whose names you have been able to bring together. You are enabling the whole reading world to judge for itself, how the subject of ‘Spiritual,’ ‘Mental,’ or ‘Faith’ healing, which during the past ten years has forced itself upon public notice, is being regarded by able, thoughtful, and impartial minds. There is no doubt that scientific medical men are not going to pay attention to evidence of an unscientific character. They will not waste their time over it. Nevertheless, to phenomena duly attested, and to evidence scientifically recorded, they will give the most scrupulous attention. It is the detailed and accurate collection and classification of facts by those who are trained for the task and expert in its process, that must precede generalisations upon this new, or shall we call it, revived, branch of therapeutics.