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Chapter 3—Drugs
The Usual but Dangerous Course
—A practice that is laying
the foundation of a vast amount of disease and of even more serious
evils, is the free use of poisonous drugs. When attacked by disease,
many will not take the trouble to search out the cause of their illness.
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Their chief anxiety is to rid themselves of pain and inconvenience.
So they resort to patent nostrums, of whose real properties they know
little, or they apply to a physician for some remedy to counteract the
result of their misdoing, but with no thought of making a change in
their unhealthful habits. If immediate benefit is not realized, another
medicine is tried, and then another. Thus the evil continues.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 126
.
Medicine at Any Cost
—The sick are in a hurry to get well, and
the friends of the sick are impatient. They will have medicine, and
if they do not feel that powerful influence upon their systems their
erroneous views lead them to think they should feel, they impatiently
change for another physician. The change often increases the evil.
They go through a course of medicine equally as dangerous as the
first.—
How to Live 3, 62.
The Sad Result
—By the use of poisonous drugs, many bring
upon themselves lifelong illness, and many lives are lost that might
be saved by the use of natural methods of healing. The poisons
contained in many so-called remedies create habits and appetites
that mean ruin to both soul and body. Many of the popular nostrums
called patent medicines, and even some of the drugs dispensed by
physicians, act a part in laying the foundation of the liquor habit,
the opium habit, the morphine habit, that are so terrible a curse to
society.—
The Ministry of Healing, 126, 127
.
Nervous System Deranged
—Drugs given to stupefy, whatever
they may be, derange the nervous system.—
How to Live 3, 57
.
A Penalty Fixed for Every Transgression
—God has formed
laws which govern our constitutions, and these laws which He has
placed in our being are divine, and for every transgression there
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