Basic HTML Version
Section 12—The Prevention of Disease and Its Cure by Rational Methods
257
learn to relish a diet that is healthful and abstemious, consisting of
fruits, grains, and vegetables.
Drug Medication
Drug medication is to be discarded. On this point the conscience
of the physician must ever be kept tender and true and clean. The
inclination to use poisonous drugs, which kill if they do not cure,
needs to be guarded against. Matters have been laid open before me
in reference to the use of drugs. Many have been treated with drugs
[228]
and the result has been death. Our physicians, by practicing drug
medication, have lost many cases that need not have died if they had
left their drugs out of the sickroom.
Fever cases have been lost, when, had the physicians left off
entirely their drug treatment, had they put their wits to work and
wisely and persistently used the Lord’s own remedies, plenty of air
and water, the patients would have recovered. The reckless use of
these things that should be discarded has decided the case of the
sick.
Experimenting in drugs is a very expensive business. Paraly-
sis of the brain and tongue is often the result, and the victims die
an unnatural death, when, if they had been treated perseveringly,
with unwearied, unrelaxed diligence with hot and cold water, hot
compresses, packs, and dripping sheet, they would be alive today.
Nothing should be put into the human system that will leave a
baleful influence behind. And to carry out the light on this subject,
to practice hygienic treatment, is the reason which has been given
me for establishing sanitariums in various localities.
I have been pained when many students have been encouraged to
go where they would receive an education in the use of drugs. The
light I have received on the subject of drugs is altogether different
from the use made of them at these schools or at the sanitariums.
We must become enlightened on these subjects.
The intricate names given medicines are used to cover up the
matter, so that none will know what is given them as remedies unless
they consult a dictionary....
Patients are to be supplied with good, wholesome food; total
abstinence from all intoxicating drinks is to be observed; drugs are