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Section 12—The Prevention of Disease and Its Cure by Rational Methods
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in the use of nature’s own furnished remedies—pure air, and with a
precious knowledge of how to breathe; pure water, with a knowledge
how to apply it; plenty of sunlight in every room in the house if
possible, and with an intelligent knowledge of what advantages are
to be gained by its use. All these are powerful in their efficiency,
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and the patient who has obtained a knowledge of how to eat and
dress healthfully may live for comfort, for peace, for health, and will
not be prevailed upon to put to his lips drugs, which, in the place of
helping nature, paralyzes her powers. If the sick and suffering will
do only as well as they know in regard to living out the principles of
health reform perseveringly, then they will in nine cases out of ten
recover from their ailments.
Obedience to Nature’s Laws
The feeble and suffering ones must be educated line upon line,
precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, until they will
have respect for and live in obedience to the law that God has made
to control the human organism. Those who sin against knowledge
and light, and resort to the skill of a physician in administering drugs,
will be constantly losing their hold on life. The less there is of drug
dosing, the more favorable will be their recovery to health. Drugs, in
the place of helping nature, are constantly paralyzing her efforts....
They do not inquire into their former habits of eating and drink-
ing, and take special notice of their erroneous habits which have
been for many years laying the foundation of disease. Conscientious
physicians should be prepared to enlighten those who are ignorant,
and should with wisdom make out their prescriptions, prohibiting
those things in their diet which he knows to be erroneous.
He should plainly state the things which he regards as detrimen-
tal to the laws of health, and leave these suffering ones to work
conscientiously to do those things for themselves which they can
do, and thus place themselves in right relation to the laws of life and
health. When from an enlightened conscience they do the very best
they know how to do to preserve themselves in health, then in faith
they may look to the Great Physician, who is a healer of the body as
well as of the soul.