The first mental-healing author, W. F. Evans, was a patient of Mr. Quimby before he began to write upon the subject. The same is true of the author of Science and Health. Three years before his death, which occurred in January, 1866, a patient came to him in Portland from western New Hampshire who had the training of a scholar and the literary habits of an author and a clergyman. He had, withal, an open and receptive mind, and though, with his other accomplishments, he was versed in medicine, he became at once profoundly interested in the mental-healing theories and methods of Dr. Quimby.' This was the Rev. Warren Felt Evans, then of Claremont, who was destined to become the pioneer author and healer in the new school of therapeutics founded by Dr. Quimby. The spiritual philosophy in which he believed, together with the intellectual acuteness that belongs to the well disciplined mind, prepared him to grasp at once the principles of Dr. Quimby's system of healing. So at the close of his second visit, he said to Dr. Quimby, I believe that I can heal as you do.' Dr. Quimby promptly replied, “I think you can.” Up to this time no one of his patients had entertained the thought of being competent to enter upon the healing ministry which Dr. Quimby had then followed for twenty-three years. Dr. Evans, upon returning to his home in Claremont, very soon began his career as a mental practitioner, and found himself perfectly at home in the work. He had demonstrated the fundamental principles of mental healing in a practice of six years before he issued his first book on the subject, in 1869. He was an author, however, before he was a healer, having published several books that treated of spiritual themes. His first work on mental healing is called The Mental Cure… In the next six years Dr. Evans published two other books called Mental Medicine (1872) and Soul and Body (1875) which give a further unfolding of the views of this remarkably suggestive writer. Dr. Evans's active and fertile mind produced three other books on the topic that had an absorbing interest to him. The titles in the order of their publication are: The Divine Law of Cure (1881), The Primitive Mind Cure (1884), Esoteric Christianity and Mental Therapeutics (1886). The last two books embody the substance of the author's instruction to his classes.
In 1863 he decided to visit a healer in Portland, Maine, whose fame was spreading throughout New England. The healer was Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. Evans made two trips to Quimby, and was healed of dyspepsia, which had afflicted him for years. He was thrilled at what he found in Quimby: someone who put into practice Swedenborg’s approach to healing. Evans felt that because of his Swedenborgian background he understood Quimby’s healing secrets, and could employ them himself. Quimby agreed as Evans began the life of a healer.
The Methodist church was not pleased with Rev. Evans. The next year, Evans was re-baptized at the Swedenborgian Church on Beacon Hill. He and his family moved to Boston and then Salisbury, where he became a highly-effective healer. For the rest of his life, he gave healings, using Quimby's approach. He never charged. http://swedenborgiancommunity.org/secrets-of-healing
The larger public work of Julius A. and Annetta G.Dresser began in Boston in 1882. At that time the only devotees of the mental-healing doctrine were either followers or pupils of former students of MEB (of Christian Science), or devotees of Dr. Evans. The work of my parents(Horatio was their son and was born the year Quimby died. The first Mental Science or New Thought child) was a direct development of Mr. Quimby's theories and methods, as shown by the following quotation from a circular issued in 1884: 
"So many -persons ask the undersigned what their mode of treatment of the sick is, we feel constrained to make a brief general answer. It is none of the prevailing 'isms ' of the day, but is purely a mental treatment; and its results are a triumph of mind over the ills of suffering humanity, and of the real truth of a sick person's case over the opinions that assume to know when they do not know. No medicines or other material means are used, for the reason that it is natural and right to be well, and the simple truth understood and applied destroys the error of disease. Our examinations are made by mental perceptions [intuition] which reveal the true state of the patient. This mode of practice applies to all cases, and is based upon principles of truth discovered and reduced to a science by P. P. Quimby, of Maine, We learned it of him, personally, and have no name for it except the Quimby System of Mental Treatment of Diseases. But it may properly be termed a spiritual science. Those who are unacquainted with it are asked to judge of it only by its fruits.”Note: Dresser and his wife had left when he took a job elsewhere. He came back east and took Christian Science lessons with his wife, Annetta, from Edward J. Arens. It was on recognizing the simarilities between this course and Quimby's teachings that Julius Dresser basically went after MEB, defending Quimby.
HEALTH AND THE INNER LIFE
An Analytical and Historical Study of Spiritual Healing Theories, with an Account of the Life and Teachings of P. P. Quimby
BY HORATIO W. DRESSER
1906
In 1882 Julius Dresser, arrived in Boston,
angry to find that Eddy appeared to be teaching Quimby's methods as her own.
There was an exchange of views in the Boston Post in February 1883.
The issue ended up in court in September 1883 when Eddy
filed a complaint that her student Edward J. Arens had published a pamphlet
that copied over 20 pages of Science and Health. Arens counter-claimed that
Eddy had copied it from Quimby in the first place. Quimby's son, George, was so unwilling to produce his father's
manuscripts that he sent them out of the country, and Eddy won the case. Things
were stirred up further by the publication in 1887 of Julius Dresser's The True
History of Mental Healing.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SlimVirgin_II/sandbox
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SlimVirgin_II/sandbox
Edward Arens was a pupil of Mrs.
Eddy’s husband, Asa, and he eventually
broke with the Eddys and went out on his own, starting by writing pamphlets
that plagiarized Mrs. Eddy’s work to the point where she sued him for
plagliarism and won. He is considered one of the founders of the New Thought
movement, and it was Arens that taught the former P. P. Quimby patients, Julius and Annetta
Dresser, when they returned from California to Boston in 1882. Source:
http://christiansciencehistory.typepad.com/blog/2011/03/edward-j-arens-one-of-the-founders-of-new-thought.html
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