Christian Science Hospital

San Francisco and Chestnut Hills, Mass, have the world's only official Christian Science sanatoriums. But any Scientist may set up a sanatorium or nursing home to be operated on the principles of his Mother Church, governed only by State law. Such institutions are scattered over the U. S. and England. To one of them, Ten Acres near Princeton, N. J., last June was taken Charles E. Berton, 20, his neck fractured in a diving accident (TIME, July 3). He was put to bed, given whatever liquid nourishment he could swallow. The rest was left...

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