Editing Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (section)

==Followers and patients==
===Notable followers===

Among the people who claimed to be cured by Quimby were [[Julius Dresser]] and his wife [[Annetta Dresser]], from what sickness it is unclear.<ref>Fuller, 1982, ''Mesmerism and the American Cure of Souls.'' Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.</ref> Their son, [[Horatio Dresser]], wrote extensively on Quimby's theories. He edited and collected many of Quimby's papers in his book ''Health and the Inner Life: An Analytical and Historical Study of Spiritual Healing and Theories'' (1906). He also edited and published selected Quimby papers in the book, ''The Quimby Manuscripts'' (1921).

[[Warren Felt Evans]] was a Methodist minister who was moving over to [[Swedenborgianism]] about the time that he visited Quimby twice about 1863. While he was reputed to be a student of Quimby, modern scholarship has shown that he considered himself an equal of Quimby and not a student.<ref>McNeil 2020, Chapters Six and Seven, and Albanese, 2016.</ref>

===Notable patients===
[[Mary Baker Eddy]], the founder of [[Christian Science]], was a patient of Quimby's and a healer steeped in Protestant theology and science.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://werehistory.org/mary-baker-eddy/ | title=Mary Baker Eddy and the American Dream | date=November 4, 2014 }}</ref> Later, claims were made that she was at least partially inspired by Quimby in her theology. However, both Quimby's son<ref>Dresser, Horatio W., ed. ''The Quimby Manuscripts''. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers, 1921. - p436. According to Quimby's son, Quote: “The religion which [Mrs. Eddy] teaches certainly is hers, for which I cannot be too thankful; for I should be loath to go down to my grave feeling that my father was in any way connected with ‘Christian Science.’...In [Quimby’s method of] curing the sick, religion played no part. There were no prayers, there was no asking assistance from God or any other divinity. He cured by his wisdom.”</ref> and Christian Scientists<ref>Gottschalk, Stephen. ''The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973 - p130. Quote: "Christian Science is a religious teaching and only incidentally a healing method. Quimbyism was a healing method and only incidentally a religious teaching. If one examines the religious implications or aspects of Quimby’s thought, it is clear that in these terms it has nothing whatever in common with Christian Science.”</ref> have pointed out major differences between Quimbyism and Christian Science. Biographer Gillian Gill<ref>Gill, Gillian. ''Mary Baker Eddy''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1998,  p159). Quote: “[Julius] Dresser sees the healing power [of Quimby] as a kind of [[clairvoyance]], an ability to enter into the sick person’s mind and read his or her thoughts; Dresser makes no suggestion that this type of healing involves tapping into a divine strength, as Mrs. Eddy would later claim for her Christian Science.”</ref> and others<ref>[[Karl Holl]], ''Der Szientismus'', reprinted in ''Gesam-melte Aufsätze Zur Kirchengeschichte, III'' (1921-1928)<br>Quote: "it was [Eddy's] earnest Puritan faith in God that separated her from Quimby from the beginning."{{pb}}{{cite book |last1=Beasley |first1=Norman |title=The Cross and Crown |date=1952 |publisher=Duell, Sloan and Peace |location=New York |page=7 |edition= First}}<br>[[Norman Beasley]] writes that when Eddy had a relapse from Quimby's care, she left him "convinced, as she told him, that if she were to find a healing it would have to be in the Bible."</ref><!-- These lengthy quotes are much too long to have as footnotes, and too many to have in content; they would unbalance the article that is about Quimby --> agreed, pointing out that because of its [[theism]], Christian Science differs considerably from the teachings of Quimby, who did not base his work in religion.