But, in criticising Mr. Dresser's quiet monograph, the amiable "Mother of Christian Science," proclaimed that Mr. Dresser had "let loose the dogs of war."; had unleashed a "pet poodle," alternately "to bark and whine" at her "heels"; and she identified the "pet poodle" with a certain "sucking litterateur," who had renounced allegiance to her.[16] But when her preliminary high-tide had ebbed a little, her pen dropped this: "Did I write those articles in Mr. Dresser's pamphlet, purporting to be mine? I might have written them, twenty or thirty years ago, for I was under the mesmeric treatment of Dr. Quimby from 1862 until his death, in 1865. He was illiterate, and knew nothing then of the science of Mind-healing; and I was as ignorant of mesmerism as Eve before she was tempted by the serpent." Those Patterson-Eddy "articles," then--no possible mendacity being adequate to their extinction--have been grudgingly and angrily admitted by their author to be genuine. But she would ignore them on the ground of "mesmerism." Her "head," she says, "was so turned by Animal Magnetism and will power" under Dr. Quimby's treatment, that she "might have written something as hopelessly incorrect" as the articles referred to. But _was_ Mrs. Mary M. Patterson under "mesmeric treatment," or _did_ Mrs. Mary Patterson Eddy ever really _believe_ she was under such treatment, when with Dr. Quimby? And was she then a truly "ignorant Eve," without a fig-leaf of knowledge pertaining to mesmerism? In 1862 she thought _not_, and we have seen that, in writing her first newspaper letter on Dr. Quimby, she turned her thought into these words: "I _have employed electro-magnetism and animal magnetism_, and for a brief period I have felt relief ... but in no instance did I get rid of a return of all my ailments, _because I had not been helped out of the error in which opinions involve us. My operator believed in disease independent of mind; hence I could not be wiser than my teacher._" Mrs. Patterson continued her letter by saying what has already been quoted in full--that Dr. Quimby cured her by "a great principle" of "science," through which he established "the truth" in "the patient"--a truth which he opposed to the error of giving intelligence to matter, and placing pain where it never placed itself. In Mrs. Eddy's magazine article of June, 1887, she went so far as to say of Dr. Quimby, "His healing was never _considered_ or _called_ anything but Mesmerism." Well, Mrs. Mary M. Patterson, from 1862 to 1866, both "considered" and "called" the Doctor's healing something wholly different from mesmerism; and, saying it was done "by the truth which Christ taught," she considered and called it something "in contradistinction to _all_ Isms."