Improper Eating a Cause of Disease
405
A physician is sent for, who prescribes some drug which gives present
relief, but which does not cure the disease. It may change the form of
disease, but the real evil is increased tenfold. Nature was doing her
best to rid the system of an accumulation of impurities, and could she
have been left to herself, aided by the common blessings of heaven,
such as pure air and pure water, a speedy and safe cure would have
been effected.
The sufferers in such cases can do for themselves that which others
can not do as well for them. They should commence to relieve nature of
the load they have forced upon her. They should remove the cause. Fast
a short time, and give the stomach chance for rest. Reduce the feverish
state of the system by a careful and understanding application of
water. These efforts will help nature in her struggles to free the system
of impurities. But generally the persons who suffer pain become
impatient. They are not willing to use self-denial, and suffer a little
from hunger
The use of water can accomplish but little, if the patient does not
feel the necessity of also strictly attending to his diet.
Many are living in violation of the laws of health, and are ignorant
of the relation their habits of eating, drinking, and working sustain to
their health. They will not arouse to their true condition until nature
protests against the abuses she is suffering, by aches and pains in the
system. If, even then, the sufferers would only commence the work
right, and would resort to the simple means they have neglected—the
use of water and proper diet,—nature would have just the help she
requires, and which she ought to have had long before. If this course is
pursued, the patient will generally recover without being debilitated.
Spiritual Gifts 4:124
Pork, although one of the most common articles of diet, is one
of the most injurious. God did not prohibit the Hebrews from eating
swine’s flesh merely to show His authority, but because it was not a
proper article of food for man. It would fill the system with scrofula,
and especially in that warm climate produced leprosy, and disease of
various kinds. Its influence upon the system in that climate was far
more injurious than in a colder climate. But God never designed the
swine to be eaten under any circumstances. The heathen used pork