I occasionally go to the University of Minnesota‘s Wilson Library to view microfilms of old newspapers. Today, I was reading about Queen Victoria‘s death in January 1901 and stumbled across this gem.
The hearing on the Bell bill to prevent Christian Scientists from practicing their art will be resumed next Wednesday, and the second hearing promises to be of greater interest than the first.
At the hearing last Wednesday several of the Christian Scientists asserted that there was no danger in germs under the Christian Science treatment. It was stated today that the believe of the “Scientists” in their immunity from germs would be put to the test.
One of the members of the State Medical Society, it is reported, will bring to the hearing next Wednesday a vial of typhoid fever germs. He will ask some of the “Scientists” to demonstrate their immunity by drinking those germs.
Two takeaways:
- The COVID unbelievers are not new, apparently there have always been those who don’t believe in transmittable diseases.
- Politicians today would never get away with testing a theory with a live pathogen (though I got to say, I love it!).
