Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1901 — TO TEST THEIR IMMUNITY. [ARTICLE]

TO TEST THEIR IMMUNITY.

Christian Scientist* Will Be Asked to Drink Fever Germ*. A special to the New York Times from Albany says: “The hearing on the Bell bill to prevent Christian Scientists from practicing their art will be resumed next Wednesday, and promises to be of great interest. “At a hearing last Wednesday several of the Christian Scientists asserted that there was no danger in germs under the Christian Science treatment. It was stated that the belief 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 phial of typhoid fever germs. He will ask some of the ‘Scientists’ to demonstrate their immunity-by drinking these germs.”