"Still he claims it did, he stopped taking medicine, began reading the
book, and soon we saw he was improving."

"Rest assured it wasn't the book."

"He does not claim it was the book, but the truth the book contained
that did the work."

"Nonsense! there is no truth in that book."

"How, then, can we account for his getting well?"

"Probably the after effect of the medicine, or else he only believed
himself sick."

"That is just what he claims, that he was only sick in belief and not
in reality."

"Just as I thought," said the Rev. Jones.

"What do you mean, Mr. Jones?"

"He is another one of those simple-minded fellows who believed they
were sick, and then claim reading that book cured them," said Rev.
Jones.

"But I employed the best physicians and specialists, and they all
agreed that he had hereditary consumption and was incurable."

"Most of these physicians are numbskulls and quacks."