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which is another great cause of the degeneracy of the race.—
How to
Live 3, 50
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Easier to Use Drugs
—Make use of the remedies that God has
provided. Pure air, sunshine, and the intelligent use of water are
beneficial agents in the restoration of health. But the use of water
is considered too laborious. It is easier to employ drugs than to use
natural remedies.—
Healthful Living, 247
.
Many parents substitute drugs for judicious nursing.—
The
Health Reformer, September, 1866
.
Educate Away From Drugs
—Drug medication, as it is gener-
ally practiced, is a curse. Educate away from drugs. Use them less
and less, and depend more upon hygienic agencies; then nature will
respond to God’s physicians—pure air, pure water, proper exercise,
a clear conscience. Those who persist in the use of tea, coffee, and
flesh meats will feel the need of drugs, but many might recover
without one grain of medicine if they would obey the laws of health.
Drugs need seldom be used.—
Counsels on Health, 261
.
The only hope of better things is in the education of the people
in right principles. Let physicians teach the people that restorative
power is not in drugs, but in nature. Disease is an effort of nature to
free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the
laws of health. In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained.
Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected.
Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and
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to re-establish right conditions in the system.—
The Ministry of
Healing, 127
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Importance of Preventive Medicine
—The first labors of a
physician should be to educate the sick and suffering in the very
course they should pursue to prevent disease. The greatest good can
be done by our trying to enlighten the minds of all we can obtain
access to, as to the best course for them to pursue to prevent sickness
and suffering, and broken constitutions, and premature death. But
those who do not care to undertake work that taxes their physical and
mental powers will be ready to prescribe drug medication, which
lays a foundation in the human organism for a twofold greater evil
than that which they claim to have relieved.—
Medical Ministry, 221,
222
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