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instruction is not technical. It can be understood by laymen. The
requirements laid down for spiritual, mental, and physical Health
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and happiness are so rational that they can be complied with. That
which relates to the prevention of sickness is of especial value; for,
as an old adage tells us, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
cure.
The writer of this book, Mrs. E. G. White, devoted nearly
seventy years of her very earnest, active life to the gospel ministry.
In her youth she was an invalid. In her early married life she battled
with a weak heart, with cancer, and with other ailments. At the age
of thirty-six she experienced a great awakening on the subject of
temperance as it relates to health, to physical and mental efficiency,
and to Christian living. The rigid application of the knowledge
gained regarding the laws of mind and body brought great relief and
restoration to her, and from that time on to the close of her arduous
labors, a period of nearly fifty years, she was an earnest exponent of
the principles of health and temperance.
In 1865 Mrs. E. G. White made an appeal to the Seventh-day
Adventist Church, of which she was a member, to establish a medi-
cal institution in which the sick should be given rational, drugless
treatment for their ills, and also where they should be given instruc-
tion regarding the laws of health. In response, such an institution
was established in Battle Creek, Michigan. This undertaking met
with great success. The institution grew into large proportions, and
for nearly a half century it has been favorably and widely known
as the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Through subsequent years many
similar sister sanitariums have been established in different parts of
the United States and in many other countries of the world.
The Trustees of Mrs. White’s Estate, having found in her letters
and manuscript files many documents heretofore unpublished which
contain valuable instruction for physicians, nurses, sanitarium man-
agers, helpers, gospel evangelists, and Christian workers, believe
that this valuable counsel should be sent forth to the public. It is
our sincere hope that this volume may prove a great blessing to its
readers, and through them, to a great multitude to whom they may
minister.
A. G. Daniells