"Real medicine, whether in the form of an herb or a food, is a substance that will increase the energy in the vital centers without working any injury. Taking this view of the matter, a view which is the opinion of the foremost investigators at the present time and is substantiated by every experiment made by dietitians, it will be readily seen why the old school of medicine has been so frequently unsuccessful and has had to change from one theory to another, changing from poisons to toxins and serums of animal origin, and why they have been disappointed in the results obtained."
It will also be recognized by every thinking man, that if we are to gain our object, we must take the right course, employing the means and measures necessary to success. There are hundreds of non-poisonous remedies now in use which are being more and more substituted for the poisonous drugs formerly prescribed and to the great benefit of all concerned.
Every one, whether physician or layman, who holds in his hands the life of a human being, should seriously consider what an awful thing it is to give a drug the tendency of which is to destroy, while trying to cure. To say the least, it is an exceedingly contradictory, and unreasonable act.
This is another confession made by some of the most eminent physicians in their ignorance of the real nature of physiological disorders called disease, and the uncertainty of the action of their remedies; hence, their conclusion, "medicine
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