*As long as man remains a physical creature, in part or whole, and as long as food is essential to his continuance, the Physio-Medical system of treatment is the natural and logical one, due to the fact that in each prescribed remedy there are elements required by the body of man just as there are in the food he daily consumes in order to rebuild the various parts of his body.
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"(4) It makes use of those articles and those only, which, in their nature, harmonize with the organic tissues and the vital forces; and, in the measure and mode of application required in any given case, directly aid that force in restoring its equilibrium, by judiciously removing or helping it to remove all the obstacles to its free and universal action.
"(5) It regards as poison anything and everything that is certainly known, in authorized medicinal doses or degrees, to have directly destroyed human life, or is, in its nature, calculated to deprive the organs of the power to respond to the action of the vital force in the production of irritation and fever, viz., antimony, arsenic, mercury, belladonna, cantharides, cicuta, digitalis and other agents of like nature, and rejects these in toto from its remedial means.
"(6) It adopts as remedial means and measures only those agents whose inherent tendency, like that of food, exercise, warmth, electricity and the influence of pleasant company, harmonize with the organic and conservative force of the system, and, like food and water, may and should be given or applied in the quantities and modes required, till the objects of their use are fully accomplished; till perfect health is established.
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