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achs poisonous drugs under a variety of names we do not understand.
It is our duty to refuse all such prescriptions.
We wish to build a sanitarium [in Australia] where maladies may
be cured by nature’s own provisions, and where the people may be
taught how to treat themselves when sick; where they will learn to
eat temperately of wholesome food, and be educated to refuse all
narcotics—tea, coffee, fermented wines, and stimulants of all kinds—
and to discard the flesh of dead animals.—
Temperance, 88, 89
(General
Manuscript 1896
).
The Ideal—Finally Cease to Deal Out Drugs—When you un-
derstand physiology in its truest sense, your drug bills will be very
much smaller, and finally you will cease to deal out drugs at all. The
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physician who depends upon drug medication in his practice, shows
that he does not understand the delicate machinery of the human organ-
ism. He is introducing into the system a seed crop that will never lose
its destroying properties throughout the lifetime. I tell you this because
I dare not withhold it. Christ paid too much for man’s redemption to
have his body so ruthlessly treated as it has been by drug medication.
Years ago the Lord revealed to me that institutions should be es-
tablished for treating the sick without drugs. Man is God’s property,
and the ruin that has been made of the living habitation, the suffering
caused by the seeds of death sown in the human system, are an offense
to God.—
Medical Ministry, 229
(To a leading physician and his wife,
1896).
The Divine Presence in the Operating Room
[
The assurances of this chapter will remove any question as to the
propriety of surgery with its attendant anesthetic
.]
Christ in the Operating Room—Before performing a critical
operation, let the physician ask for the aid of the Great Physician. Let
him assure the suffering one that God can bring him safely through
the ordeal, that in all times of distress He is a sure refuge for those
who trust in Him.—
The Ministry of Healing, 118
(1905).
The Saviour is present in the sickroom, in the operating room;
and His power for His name’s glory accomplishes great things.—