Accession: V03042
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Samuel Putnam Bancroft, 1882
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Samuel Putnam Bancroft 
Date: 1882
Manuscript Description: Handwritten in ink by Mary Baker Eddy on embossed paper.
Archival Note: The original of this document is F00358 and is in the collection of Longyear Museum. V03042 is a copy of this letter.
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⇉ Handshift:unknownspring 1882
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyFriday 18th
Dear Student,

Please drop the treatment it does not meet the occasion and substitute this --

Treat my husband

“Say to him you can help your wife and they cannot prevent it, and they cannot make you sick in belief and she feel your symptoms liver complaint and humoursEditorial Note: Humors. Eddy’s use of “humours” here is derived from the humoral theory of disease, which can be traced back to ancient Greek and Roman physicians. They taught that the human body contains four fluids or “humors”—black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. It was believed that disease resulted from the humors being out of balance in the body. of stomach

Lovingly Yours
MB Glover Eddy

All are going to try together once a day between 4 and 5 o’clock As Written:o c PM.

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⇉ Handshift:unknownspring 1882
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyFriday 18th
Dear Student,

Please drop the treatment it does not meet the occasion and substitute this --

Treat my husband

“Say to him you can help your wife and they cannot prevent it, and they cannot make you sick in belief and she feel your symptoms liver complaint and cancer humoursEditorial Note: Humors. Eddy’s use of “humours” here is derived from the humoral theory of disease, which can be traced back to ancient Greek and Roman physicians. They taught that the human body contains four fluids or “humors”—black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. It was believed that disease resulted from the humors being out of balance in the body. of stomach

Lovingly Yours
MB Glover Eddy

All are going to try together once a day between 4 and 5 o cCorrected: o’clock PM.

 
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Humors. Eddy’s use of “humours” here is derived from the humoral theory of disease, which can be traced back to ancient Greek and Roman physicians. They taught that the human body contains four fluids or “humors”—black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. It was believed that disease resulted from the humors being out of balance in the body.