When that troublesome declaimer, Carlstadt, declared that "whoso falls sick shall use no physic, but commit his case to God, praying that His will be done," Luther asked, "Do you eat when you are hungry ?" and the answer being in the affirmative, he continued, "Even so you may use physic, which is God's gift just as meat and drink is, or whatever else we use for the preservation of life." Hence it was, doubtless, that the Protestant cities of Germany were more ready than others to admit anatomical investigation by proper dissections.( 317) (317) For Luther's belief and his answer to Carlstadt, see his Table Talk, especially in Hazlitt's edition, pp.

250-257; also his letters passim.

For recent "faith cures," see Dr.Buckley's articles on Faith Healing and Kindred Phenomena, in The Century, 1886.

For the greater readiness of Protestant cities to facilitate dissections, see Toth, Andreas Vesalius, p.

33.
Perhaps the best-known development of a theological view in the Protestant Church was that mainly evolved in England out of a French germ of theological thought--a belief in the efficacy of the royal touch in sundry diseases, especially epilepsy and scrofula, the latter being consequently known as the king's evil.