Medicine: A Gallstone

Mrs. Sadie Bingham Lampkin, trustee of the Christian Science Society of Red Bank, N. J., fell ill of a pain in her stomach. She called a Christian Science healer and later reported herself "gloriously healed." A few weeks later she died. A licensed doctor refused to issue a death certificate. Thereupon the county physician, accompanied by a police sergeant, went to the home of the deceased, procured the body, performed an autopsy, declared that Mrs. Lampkin had died of peritonitis caused by a gallstone which had ruptured the lining of her stomach...

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