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Among us as a people, the medical work should stand at its highest.
Physicians should bear in mind that it is their work to fit souls as well
as bodies for heavenly lives. Their service for God is to be uncorrupted
by evil practices.
Every practitioner should study carefully the word of God. Read
the story of the sons of Aaron in the tenth chapter of Leviticus,
verses
1-11
. Here was a case where the use of wine benumbed the senses.
The Lord demands that the appetite and all the habits of life of the
physician be kept under strict control. While dealing with the bodies
of their patients, they are to constantly remember that the eye of God
is upon their work.
The Causes of Disease to Be Understood
The most exalted part of the physician’s work is to lead the men and
women under his care to see that the cause of disease is the violation
of the laws of health and to encourage them to higher and holier views
of life. Instruction should be given that will provide an antidote for
the diseases of the soul as well as for the sickness of the body. Only
that sanitarium will be a healthful institution where right principles are
established. The physician who, knowing the remedy for the diseases
of the soul and body, neglects the educational part of his work, will
have to give an account of his neglect in the day of judgment. Strict
purity of language and every word and action is to be guarded.
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