Medicine and the Church / Being a series of studies on the relationship between the practice of medicine and the church's ministry to the sick

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[90] Compare also the nature-parables.

[91] Dr. Swete on Mark v. 43.

[92] Mark i. 44.

[93] John v. 2.

[94] In Acts xxviii. 9, 10, there is an implication of co-operation between St. Paul and St. Luke the physician; see Religion and Medicine, pp. 365, 366; the language is technical.

[95] See Dr. Swete on Mark v. 26; also Luke iv. 23; contrast Ecclus. xxxviii. sq.

[96] Lambeth Conference Report, 1908 (vii. iii.).

[97] Novatian de Trinitate, xxix.

[98] Tennyson, Faith.

[99] With touching for scrofula may be compared the blessing of ‘cramp-rings.’ The Sovereign of England used, on Good Friday, to bless rings which afterwards were distributed to sufferers from cramp or epilepsy. The last monarch to do this was Mary Tudor.