Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Heterodoxy, Mesmerism, Homeopathy

    Reports on an evangelical sect, the Peculiar People, who prefer to treat disease by prayer and the laying on of hands, rather than by medical treatment. Reports that a verdict of manslaughter was passed on one member of the sect who denied medical treatment to his child who subsequently died of small-pox. Questions whether this is legal and wonders what would happen to those whose children die of small-pox, having only received treatment from a mesmerist and homeopath.