Drugs
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1043. Powerful poisons are often administered, which fetter nature
in all her friendly efforts to recover from the abuse the system has
suffered.—
How to Live, 49
.
Results of Drug Medication
1044. Drugging should be forever abandoned; for while it does not
cure any malady, it enfeebles the system, making it more susceptible
to disease.—
Testimonies For The Church 5:311
.
1045. There are more who die from the use of drugs than all
who would have died of disease had nature been left to do her own
work.—
How to Live, 61
.
1046. Medicines have no power to cure, but will most generally
hinder nature in her efforts.—
How to Live, 62
.
1047. Medicine deranges nature’s fine machinery, and breaks down
the constitution. It kills, but never cures.—
How to Live, 57
.
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1048. The endless variety of medicines in the market, the numerous
advertisements of new drugs and mixtures, all of which claim to do
wonderful cures, kill hundreds where they benefit one.... Yet people
keep dosing, and continue to grow weaker until they die. Some will
have medicine at all events. Then let them take these hurtful mixtures
and the various deadly poisons upon their own responsibility. 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 Volume 4a, 140
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1049. The sick are in a hurry to get well, and the friends of the sick
are impatient. They will have medicine, and if they do not feel that
powerful influence upon their systems which their erroneous views
lead them to think they should feel, they impatiently change to another
physician. The change often increases the evil. They go through a
course of medicine equally as dangerous as the first, and more fatal,
because the two treatments do not agree, and the system is poisoned
beyond remedy.—
How to Live, 62
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1050. Although the patient may recover, yet the powerful effort
nature was required to make to over-come the poison, injured the