How did homeopathy affect Mary Baker Eddy’s ideas about illness?

Mary Baker Eddy’s exploration of homeopathy during the 1850s played a significant role in shaping her views on illness. By experimenting with this medical system, she began to lose faith in traditional medicine, which she viewed as being based on materialistic premises.12

This experience led her to the conviction that the root cause of disease was mental rather than physical. Her experiments with homeopathy helped strengthen her belief in the mental nature of illness, a concept she later developed further through her association with Phineas P. Quimby. Ultimately, these inquiries contributed to her broader spiritual quest, leading her to conclude that illness was not God’s will and that true healing was found in the reality of Spirit.123