Chapter 1 - Primitive Healing - p.3

My first remembered experience in self-healing occurred nineteen years ago, before I had ever heard of a new thought, or even of Christian Science; and before I had ever dreamed there could be any healing except by calomel and quinine. And yet I healed myself, and I knew when I did it.

But I did not think. It did not occur to me then that there was any discrepancy between the old teaching that healing resulted from something swallowed, and the fact that I was healed without having swallowed anything unusual. Perhaps I was "too young" to reason much; I was scarcely 18 years old. But I was not too young to feel and act upon the impressions which came to me, and to all children, from the universal and immanent spirit of wisdom.

It was this way. I, being but 18, was yet a wife of over three years, and Catherine was a baby. The first two years of our married life we lived with the best mother- and father-in-law a girl could have; and then, when Catherine was a year old, we went to housekeeping. Our new house was a present from my own father (my own mother died when I was nine years old), and was built after my ideas, which were entirely too large and not quite so practical as they have since become. So there I was, a mere child, with absolutely no experience at house-keeping, and with a baby, and