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Healthful Living
866. The liver, heart, and brain are frequently affected by drugs,
and often all these organs are burdened with disease, and the unfortu-
nate subjects, if they live, are invalids for life, wearily dragging out a
miserable existence.—
How to Live, 61
.
867. Witness the mildest protracted influence of nux vomica upon
the human system. As its introduction, the nervous energy was excited
to extraordinary action to meet this drug poison. This extra excitement
was followed by prostration, and the final result has been paralysis of
the nerves.—
How to Live, 58
.
868. Poisonous medicines, or something called a soothing cordial,
... is poured down the throat of the abused infant.... If it recovers, it
must bear about more or less in its system the effects of that poisonous
drug, and it is liable to spasms, heart disease, dropsy of the brain, or
consumption. Some infants are not strong enough to bear even a trifle
of drug poisons; and as nature rallies to meet the intruder, the vital
forces of the tender infant are too severely taxed, and death ends the
scene.—
How to Live, 70
.
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Vice
869. Impure thoughts lead to impure actions.... Some ... are in
danger of paralysis of the brain. Already the moral and intellectual
powers are weakened and benumbed.—
Testimonies for the Church
2:408, 409
.
870. Many sink into an early grave, while others have a sufficient
force of constitution to pass this ordeal.... Nature will make them pay
the penalty for the transgression of her laws ... by numerous pains in
the system, ... neuralgia, ... affection of the spine.—
A Solemn Appeal,
63, 64
.
Treatment for Nervous Disorders
Improve the General Health
871. The mind and body are intimately connected. If the former is
to be firm and well balanced, the latter should be in the best possible
condition. Conscience and right principles of life should be sustained
by firm, quiet nerves, a healthy circulation, and the activity and strength
of general health.—
The Health Reformer, November 1, 1877
.