Frederick William Peabody

Frederick William Peabody (1862–1938) is the author of The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science, a book first published in 1915 and now widely preserved in library and public-domain collections. The book presents a sustained attack on Christian Science and on the healing claims associated with the movement.

Catalog and archive records also connect him with later anti–Christian Science writing, including Complete Exposure of Eddyism or Christian Science and the 1925 volume The Faith, the Falsity and the Failure of Christian Science, written with Charles Edward Humiston and Woodbridge Riley. Taken together, these records suggest that his published legacy centers on religious controversy, medicine, and public argument rather than on fiction or literary society.

Little biographical detail beyond his birth and death years was easy to confirm from reliable sources retrieved here, so much of his life remains obscure. What does come through clearly is his role as a determined polemicist whose writing captured a fierce dispute over faith healing, authority, and medical responsibility in the early 1900s.