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She referred to this event as her " Great Discovery ", the " falling apple " that led to her " discovery how to be well " herself ( ibid.

) ( Later, she gave it the name of " Christian Science " stating that she "... named it Christian, because it is compassionate, helpful, and spiritual.

" ( ibid ).

) Not knowing how it had occurred, she spent the next three years studying the Bible, experimenting and praying to discover if the experience was repeatable and if there were knowable laws that governed it.

She claimed that she was able to heal others and began to be called out to the bedsides of those whom the medical faculty had not been able to help.

A doctor attending a severe case in New Hampshire is said to have witnessed her healing one of his patients and asked if she could explain her system.

At the time, she said only that God did it.

But he urged her to write about it and soon she began her main work explaining her system of Christian healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.