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flesh-meats, would place a large number of the sick and suffering
ones in a fair way of recovering their health, without the use of
drugs. But if the physician encourages a meat-eating diet to his
invalid patients, then he will make a necessity for the use of drugs....
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Drugs always have a tendency to break down and destroy vital
forces, and nature becomes so crippled in her efforts that the invalid
dies, not because he needed to die, but because nature was outraged.
If she had been left alone, she would have put forth her highest
efforts to save life and health. Nature wants none of such help as
so many claim that they have given her. Lift off the burdens placed
upon her, after the customs of the fashion of this age, and you will
see in many cases nature will right herself. The use of drugs is
not favorable or natural to the laws of life and health. The drug
medication gives nature two burdens to bear, in the place of one.
She has two serious difficulties to overcome, in the place of one.
There is now positive need even with physicians, reformers in
the line of treatment of disease, that greater painstaking effort be
made to carry forward and upward the work for themselves, and to
interestedly instruct those who look to them for medical skill to as-
certain the cause of their infirmities. They should call their attention
in a special manner to the laws which God has established, which
cannot be violated with impunity. They dwell much on the working
of disease, but do not, as a general rule, arouse the attention to the
laws which must be sacredly and intelligently obeyed to prevent
disease.
The Physician’s Example an Educating Influence
If the physician has not been correct in his dietetic practices, if
his own appetite has not been restricted to a plain, wholesome diet,
in a large measure discarding the use of the flesh of dead animals,
... he will as soon educate and discipline the taste and appetite of
his patients to love the things that he loves, as to give them the
sound principles of health reform. He will prescribe for sick patients
flesh-meats, when it is the very worst diet that they can have. It
stimulates, but does not give strength.
Nature will want some assistance to bring things to their proper
condition, which may be found in the simplest remedies, especially