If you had a broken leg, would you send for a doctor?--Yes, to set it. I have not sufficient understanding. Continuing, witness said she did not believe in drugs, but she did in food at present, because her understanding was not sufficient, as she was only a student. By a Juror: The reason Mrs. Dixon got worse was because of lack of understanding on witness's part. The Coroner: When she got worse, why did you not send for a doctor?--I asked her if she wanted a doctor to tell me. Yet she was getting worse owing to your lack of understanding?--I didn't look at it in that light. B. H., who attended Mrs. Dixon, said she was a trained nurse with nine years' experience. Witness had, during the past two years, become a Christian Scientist nurse. She was not a practitioner. The Coroner: Has a practitioner any special qualifications?--No, a practitioner is one who prays for another. The Coroner: Would you give a patient a mustard poultice?--No. But you would give her a hot-water bottle?--Yes. Then where do you draw the line? You don't believe in material aid?--No, I believe the other is better. Do you believe in a judicious continuation of both?--No. Did you give her beef tea?--Yes, as a nourishment. But, nurse, you ought to know what every medical man knows, that beef tea is a stimulant. Do you believe in stimulants?--Not at all. {140} Then why did you give her beef tea?--(After a pause) It was simpler to get. But it is contrary to your principles. Would you give _sal volatile_?--No. Witness explained that she called in no other help because she believed prayer was the most effectual. Why didn't you call in a doctor?--I think the patient should judge for herself. Even though her brain is clouded and she is dying?--Yes. On another point the Coroner said: Did our Saviour use food and stimulants?--He gave wine. Why don't you give wine?--He did not give it in illness, but at a marriage feast. You want us to believe He gave wine to people who could do without and withheld it from those who wanted it. Asked a question as to calling in a doctor for surgery purposes, witness said he would only be called in for setting bones and not for an operation. The Coroner: It amounts to this: you believe the Almighty is a bad surgeon, but a good physician?--Our faith is not yet strong enough. Dr. Cockell deposed that death was due to acute bronchitis. Would she have recovered with medical attendance for a week before?--Yes. The Coroner, in summing up, said there was no doubt Mrs. Dixon was grossly neglected. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from acute bronchitis, accelerated by gross neglect by Mrs. D. and especially by Nurse H." The Coroner: I am afraid that will mean manslaughter, which would be too severe. Will you alter it, gentlemen? The jury then altered the verdict to one of "severe censure on Mrs. D. and Miss H. for neglecting to obtain medical aid." [1] _The Grammar of Assent_, p. 201.