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affecting the liver and lungs, and deranging the system generally.—
Spiritual Gifts 4a:140
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Why Sanitariums Were Established
—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.—
Medical Ministry, 228
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Years ago the Lord revealed to me that institutions should be
established for treating the sick without drugs. Man is God’s prop-
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erty, and the ruin that has been made of the living habitation, the
suffering caused by the seeds of death sown in the human system,
are an offense to God.—
Medical Ministry, 229
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Patients are to be supplied with good, wholesome food; total
abstinence from all intoxicating drinks is to be observed; drugs are
to be discarded, and rational methods of treatment followed. The
patients must not be given alcohol, tea, coffee, or drugs; for these
always leave traces of evil behind them. By observing these rules,
many who have been given up by the physicians may be restored to
health.—
Medical Ministry, 228
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Drugs Seldom Needed
—Many might recover without one grain
of medicine, if they would live out the laws of health. Drugs need
seldom be used. It will require earnest, patient, protracted effort to
establish the work and to carry it forward upon hygienic principles.
But let fervent prayer and faith be combined with your efforts, and
you will succeed. By this work you will be teaching the patients,
and others also, how to take care of themselves when sick, without
resorting to the use of drugs.—
Medical Ministry, 259, 260
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Our institutions are established that the sick may be treated by
hygienic methods, discarding almost entirely the use of drugs....
There is a terrible account to be rendered to God by men who have
so little regard for human life as to treat the body so ruthlessly in
dealing out their drugs.... We are not excusable if through ignorance
we destroy God’s building by taking into our stomachs poisonous
drugs under a variety of names we do not understand. It is our duty
to refuse all such prescriptions. We wish to build a sanitarium where
maladies may be cured by nature’s own provisions, and where the
people may be taught how to treat themselves when sick; where they
will learn to eat temperately of wholesome food, and be educated to