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her care so much. They wrong our good and wise heavenly Father
when they cast back upon him this weight of human woe. Heaven
wished that mother to live, and her untimely death dishonored God.
The mother’s wrong habits, and her inattention to the laws of her being,
made her sick. And the doctor’s fashionable poisons, introduced into
the system, closed the period of her existence, and left a helpless,
stricken, motherless flock.
The above is not always the result which follows the doctor’s
drugging. Sick people who take these drug-poisons 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.
Although the patient may recover, yet the powerful effort nature
was required to make to induce action to overcome the poison, injured
the constitution, and shortened the life of the patient. There are many
who do not die under the influence of drugs, but there are very many
who are left useless wrecks, hopeless, gloomy, and miserable sufferers,
a burden to themselves and to society.
If those who take these drugs were alone the sufferers, then the
evil would not be as great. But parents not only sin against themselves
in swallowing drug-poisons, but they sin against their children. The
vitiated state of their blood, the poison distributed throughout the
system, the broken constitution, and various drug-diseases, as the result
of drug-poisons, are transmitted to their offspring, and left them as a
wretched inheritance, which is another great cause of the degeneracy
of the race.
Physicians, by administering their drug-poisons, have done very
much to increase the depreciation of the race, physically, mentally,
and morally. Everywhere you may go you will see deformity, disease
and imbecility, which in very many cases can be traced directly back
to the drug-poisons, administered by the hand of a doctor, as a remedy
for some of life’s ills. The so-called remedy has fearfully proved
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itself to the patient, by stern suffering experience, to be far worse than
the disease for which the drug was taken. All who possess common
capabilities should understand the wants of their own system. The
philosophy of health should compose one of the important studies for