By SIR T. CLIFFORD ALLBUTT, K.C.B., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge. 2. RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN THE HOSPITAL 43 By Hon. SYDNEY HOLLAND, Chairman of the London Hospital. 3. THE SURGEON, THE CLERGYMAN, AND THE PATIENT 45 By F.R.C.S. MEDICINE AND RELIGION 51 By CHARLES BUTTAR, M.D., Sometime President of the Harveian Society. THE PATIENT 69 By STEPHEN PAGET, F.R.C.S. THE RELATION OF PRIEST AND DOCTOR TO PATIENT 81 By JANE WALKER, M.D., Physician, New Hospital for Women. FAITH AND MENTAL INSTABILITY 103 By THEO. B. HYSLOP, M.D., Superintendent of Bethlem Hospital. MEDICAL ASPECTS OF MENTAL HEALING 117 By H. G. G. MACKENZIE, M.A., M.B. OUR LORD’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS SICKNESS 175 By W. YORKE FAUSSET, M.A., Vicar of Cheddar and Prebendary of Wells. THE PRINCIPLES OF MODERN CHRISTIAN HEALING 205 By W. YORKE FAUSSET, M.A., Vicar of Cheddar and Prebendary of Wells. THE CHURCH AND MENTAL HEALING 227 By ELLIS ROBERTS. THE EUCHARIST AND BODILY WELL-BEING 245 By ARTHUR W. ROBINSON, D.D., Vicar of All Hallows Barking, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of London, and Rural Dean of the East City of London. PRAYER AND MENTAL HEALING 269 By ARTHUR CHANDLER, D.D., Bishop of Bloemfontein. THE METAPHYSICS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 289 By M. CARTA STURGE. INTRODUCTION PART I MEDICINE AND THE CHURCH INTRODUCTION I In the Middle Ages practically the only homes of learning were the monasteries. Here all the knowledge of the time was taught and all the studies carried on, so that under the same roof the theologian, the chemist, the artist, and the artificer sat side by side, and consequently each drew from and modified the study and practice of the other. In England, at least, the dissolution of the monasteries changed this order, and though the brilliancy of the Renaissance for a time obscured the loss to society in general, in the backwater of the eighteenth century both religion and medicine drifted into distinct circumscribed professions. The dawn of the nineteenth century saw an enormous revival of interest and study in both directions, but the newfound energy with which the two spheres of learning were pushed forward, proved in the end inimical to the highest interests of the community, for religion and medicine found themselves carried farther and farther apart.