Chapter 36—Drugs
1038. Many, instead of seeking to remove the poisonous matter
from the system, take a more deadly poison into the system to remove
a poison already there.—
How to Live, 64
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1039. Many parents substitute drugs for judicious nursing.—
The
Health Reformer, September 1, 1866, par. 2
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Mode of Action
1040. Drugs never cure disease; they only change its form and
location.... When drugs are introduced into the system, for a time they
seem to have a beneficial effect. A change may take place, but the
disease is not cured. It will manifest itself in some other form.... The
disease which the drug was given to cure may disappear, but only to
reappear in a new form, such as skin diseases, ulcers, painful, diseased
joints, and sometimes in a more dangerous and deadly form.... Nature
keeps struggling, and the patient suffers with different ailments, until
there is a sudden breaking down in her efforts, and death follows.—
How to Live, 60
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1041. Every additional drug given to the patient ... will complicate
the case, and make the patient’s recovery more hopeless.... An evil,
simple in the beginning, which nature aroused herself to overcome,
and which she would have done if left to herself, aided by the common
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blessings of Heaven, has been made tenfold worse by introducing
drug poisons into the system, which cause of themselves a destructive
disease, forcing into extraordinary action the remaining life forces to
war against and overcome the drug intruder.—
How to Live, 57
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1042. Sick people who take drugs do appear to get well. With
some there is sufficient life force for nature to draw upon to so far
expel the poison from the system that the sick, having a period of rest,
recover. But no credit should be allowed the drugs taken, for they only
hindered nature in her efforts. All the credit should be ascribed to
nature’s restorative powers.—
How to Live, 50
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