The Doctor Who Prescribed After Death

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 41.

The Doctor Who Prescribed After Death

The Massachusetts papers tell of a lady in Sharon Heights who died under the care of a Taunton "mind doctor." He never saw the sick woman, but said he could prescribe just as well. So he sent postal cards and a root medicine daily, and, looking into the dim distance, would write down on the card her state of health. She died the other day, but the postals came all the same and the root medicine too. The first day after the patient's death, the doctor wrote: "I find you about the same; the acid in the blood has diminished." The second day after the death, he wrote: "I find you about the same; a little better if anything."