When Susanna arrives at Reverend Parris's house from speaking with Dr. Griggs, she tells Parris that the doctor "cannot discover no medicine" for Betty's strange malady in his medical books. When Parris suggests that he continue to search, Susanna says that he has been searching for a cause of Betty's illness since he saw her earlier earlier that morning. "But he bid me tell you," Susanna says, "that you might look to unnatural things for the cause of it." In other words, Dr. Griggs suggests that Betty's condition is not physical; rather, it must be spiritual because he can find no physical cause for her to be so oddly ill. She seems unable to wake, and he cannot figure out why; therefore, he assumes that her problem cannot be within the realm of his knowledge.
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