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2. Her practice of consulting qualified physicians as attested by
the published record and by those who were members of her family
;
3. Her counsel to an associate worker who was ill, to “let the
physicians” “do those things” for her “that must be done” (See page
251 of this volume), and urging her to eat, “because your earthly
physician would have you eat” (Page 253)
;
4. Her many counsels addressed to practicing physicians presented
in The Ministry of Healing, Counsels on Health, and Medical Ministry
;
5. The guidance from her pen in the establishment of a Seventh-
day Adventist medical college at Loma Linda, designed to provide “a
medical education that will enable” its graduates “To pass the exami-
nations required by law of all those who practice as regularly qualified
physicians.”—Ellen G. White
Manuscript 7, 1910
(published in
Pa-
cific Union Recorder, February 3, 1910 Words of Counsel
).(See
The
Story of Our Health Message, 386
, (1955)).] I would not touch their
nostrums, to which they give latin names. I am determined to know,
in straight English, the name of everything that I introduce into my
system.
Those who make a practice of taking drugs sin against their in-
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telligence and endanger their whole afterlife. There are herbs that
are harmless, the use of which will tide over many apparently serious
difficulties. But if all would seek to become intelligent in regard to
their bodily necessities, sickness would be rare instead of common.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.—
Manuscript 86,
1897
(General Manuscript, “Health Reform Principles,” written from
Cooranbong, Australia).
Simple Remedies in the Sanitarium Program
I have received much instruction regarding the location of sanitar-
iums. They should be a few miles distant from the large cities, and
land should be secured in connection with them. Fruit and vegetables
should be cultivated, and the patients should be encouraged to take
up outdoor work. Many who are suffering from pulmonary disease
might be cured if they would live in a climate where they could be
out-of-doors most of the year. Many who have died of consumption
might have lived if they had breathed more pure air. Fresh outdoor air
is as healing as medicine, and leaves no injurious aftereffects