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Edits to Wikipedia's Hobart Freeman and Faith Assembly

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I like these summaries from Margaret Pabst Battin:

"Freeman taught the members of the fledgling church to shun doctors and rely on prayer and faith for healing, a teaching which stiffened into a rigorous anti-medical policy enforced with threatened expulsion from the group."

And:

Faith Assembly prohibits its members from consulting doctors or from using any medical treatment at all, including vaccination and other preventive treatment, assistance in childbirth, emergency treatment, prostheses, eyeglasses, or hearing aids.

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