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of cure. Lectures and studies in this line will prove of the highest
value.—
Letter 17a, 1893
.
Other Clarifying Statements
Do They Leave Baleful Influences Behind?—Nothing should be
put into the human system that will leave a baleful influence behind.—
Medical Ministry, 228
(
Manuscript 162
, “How to Conduct Sanitari-
ums,” 1897).
The simplest remedies may assist nature, and leave no baleful
effects after their use.—
Letter 82, 1897
(To Dr. J.H. Kellogg).
Substances Which Poison the Blood—In our sanitariums, we
advocate the use of simple remedies. We discourage the use of drugs,
for they poison the current of the blood. In these institutions sensible
instruction should be given how to eat, how to drink, how to dress, and
how to live so that the health may be preserved.—
Counsels on Diet
and Foods, 303
(Sermon at Lodi, California, May 9, 1908).
Do not endeavor to adjust the difficulties by adding a burden of
poisonous medicines.—
The Ministry of Healing, 235
(1905).
Every Pernicious Drug—Every pernicious drug placed in the
human stomach, whether by prescription of physicians or by man
himself, doing violence to the human organism, injures the whole
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machinery.—
Manuscript 3, 1897
(General Manuscript).
Break Down Vital Forces—Drugs always have a tendency to
break down and destroy vital forces.—
Medical Ministry, 223
(General
Manuscript entitled “Sanitarium,” 1887).
Poisonous Preparations Which Leave Injurious Effects—
God’s servants should not administer medicines which they know
will leave behind injurious effects upon the system, even if they do
relieve present suffering. Every poisonous preparation in the vegetable
and mineral kingdoms, taken into the system, will leave its wretched
influence, affecting the liver and lungs, and deranging the system
generally.—
Spiritual Gifts 4a:140
(1864).
Deadly Aftereffects of Poisonous Drugs—Nature’s simple reme-
dies will aid in recovery without leaving the deadly aftereffects so often
felt by those who use poisonous drugs. They destroy the power of
the patient to help himself. This power the patients are to be taught
to exercise by learning to eat simple, healthful foods, by refusing to