From CS Journal, January 1887 –
Puzzling the Doctors
A STRANGE STORY OF HOW A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST CURED A WOUNDED MAN.
Boston Sunday Globe
Hartford, Conn., Nov. 20.—R. C. Hannon, a Boston Christian Scientist, has secured many converts in the neighboring town of Broad Brook, where a remarkable case of faith-cure [Boston Globe misnomer for CS treatment] is reported. A week ago, Joseph Mann was accidentally shot by his brother-in-law, the bullet entering the left breast, and coming out at the back directly opposite.
He was attended by three doctors, who, after examination, pronounced the case fatal. The patient was unconscious, and bleeding profusely. Hannon, being in the town, asked permission to try “the Christian Science.”
On his entering the room, the wounded man immediately returned to consciousness, and sat up in bed. In an hour he appeared as well as ever. The wounds healed rapidly, and today the healer and his patient were in this city. The latter says he feels no pain. He is a little pale from excessive loss of blood, otherwise he is perfectly well.
Hannon says, the Bible is authority for the faith-cure, and nobody need to die. The doctors are puzzled, and claim that the ball hit a rib, and followed the bone to the back. The excessive flow of blood, however, would indicate that the bullet passed through the lung and other organs.—Boston Sunday Globe, Nov. 21st.
Mr. R. C. Hannon was for several years a sufferer from cancer in the stomach, which physicians failed to cure. Mrs. F. J. Stetson healed him in two treatments in Christian Science, and gave him a course of instruction, and bade him, “Go into the world, preach the gospel, heal the sick.”
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Also, according to Calvin C. Hill (We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Expanded Edition, Volume I, pp. 343–349), Mrs. Eddy told Joseph Mann, “Joseph, you have had a wonderful experience; you were thrown violently out of the house [that is, the realm of unreality] and picked yourself up on the outside [that is, the realm of Reality]; go not back into it.”