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Frederick William Peabody
1862–1938
A lawyer-turned-polemicist, he wrote some of the best-known early attacks on Christian Science and later weighed in on public questions such as war debts. His surviving record suggests a career built around controversy, argument, and pamphlets meant to persuade a wide audience.
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The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science
by Frederick William Peabody
About the author
Frederick William Peabody was an American writer and lawyer born in 1862 and died in 1938. The works most clearly connected to him today are sharp critiques of Christian Science, especially Complete Exposure of Eddyism or Christian Science (1904) and The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science (1910/1915).
Library and archival records also link him to The Faith, the Falsity and the Failure of Christian Science (1925), written with Woodbridge Riley and Charles Edward Humiston, and to later public-policy writing such as Honour or Dollars? and The Prime Ministers to the President from 1928. Those titles show a writer who did not stay in one lane for long: he moved from religious controversy into broader civic and political debate.
The surviving sources do not give a full, detailed life story, so much of his biography has to be read through his publications and archival traces. What comes through clearly is a forceful public voice, shaped by legal argument and aimed at readers who wanted direct, combative nonfiction.