Consider again the words of Henry Clay Trumbull regarding the proper diagnosis by the parent of a child’s spiritual maladies: “No quality of a good physician is of more importance than skill in making a diagnosis of a patient’s case. If a mastermind in this realm were to pass with possessiveness on the disease of every patient, the treatment of that disease would be comparatively easy. A young graduate from the medical school, or a trained nurse, would then in most instances, be capable of knowing
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