Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-06-03
Health and Disease.


Mr.. EDITOR In short article in your last
number, | stated some facts in relation to health
and disease. stated that all men and all wo-
men ought to be enjoying perfect health, and
might be now enjoying perfect health, forany-
thing God has decreed or arranged on the con-
trary. know it is generally believed that a
vast amount of disease is inevitable to mans
existence, and that God has given him nature,
or has SO cursed the nature that he has given
him, that disease and suffering and ultimately
death are inseparable concomitants of his being.
The fallity and absurdity of this doctrine is so
palpable, and so mischievous in its effects upon
human life, that l cannot refrain from pointing
it out.
Man has an organization entirely capable Of
passing through all the various stages and cir
cumstances of his being, from infancy to old
age, utterly exempt from disease, and all its at
tendant horrors. Do you ask me the proof ?
Every community furnishes it. Who does not
know of one, or even several individuals, who
have arrived at the ripe old age of seventy,
eighty, ond even ninety years, who have never
seen sick day, Or sick hour? A few persons
of this description are to be found everywhere
If man s nature is 80 blasted with incapacity for
life, and health, and longevity, and SO cursed
with inevitable proneness to disease, as the ma
jority of men and women seem to belieVy ,How
happens this? Why should such exceptions be
found? Do not these exceptions perfectly prove
human capacity? If they do not, what can?
Do they not prove also the folly and peryerse-
ness of man in not living up to the capacities
ard privileges of his being, and in rendering
himself subject to all the tortures and terrors of
physical disorder? Man has neglected the laws
and conditions of his life so long, and perverse-
ly trodden in the ways of physical transgres-
sion and error so long, that he has lost all faith
in human capacity for life and health and all
faith in Gods gracious arrangements for the de-
velopment and perfection of his physical being.
He has developed for himself faith in poisons
for the preservation of his health, and the treat
ment of his diseases, while he has learned to ig-
more and despise the value of the congenial and
friendly elements of nature, perfectly adapted
to all his wants. The sick man longs for drugs !;
he diligently seeks for some poisonous combina-
tion or mixture that may be introduced into his
organism to counterfeit his disease. He disre-
CARDS the laws of his life on the one hand, pro-
ducing some horrid malady thereby while on
the other, he poisons himself with the deadiest
agents under the deceptive title of medicines.
Tell him that all nature is full of lfe-giving and
notwithstanding elements, as bland and gracious
to our natures as air, food, water, light, heat,
i and he laughs you to scorn. Tell him that you
are physician and cure the worst forms Of hui
= man disorders, with clements as harmless and
grateful as these, and he will without stopping
to investigate Or inquire, call you quack. All
" human faith in Gods goodness and wisdom q
regards our physical natures, seems to have been
C lost from the earth.
+ The writer of this article wishes to cast nj
n unjust censure upon drug physicians. Hemere
o y-wshes to call attention to certain great prn;
: clples of truth for the benefit of humanity
!? Disease is ravishing the largest and farest por
, ton of our race. The administration Of deadly
a poisons in whatever form or combination they
1t may be disguised, is woful violation of oul
l. material organization they do not and cannot
"a meet the wants of our nature. Hence we int
IF the world full of chrome diseases full of speci
m mems of forlorn humanity who have no hop
III this side of the grave. 1t is this class of suffer
= ers that would wish to arouse by these arti
to Giles. There lisa power in the non-posonousant
DEMONSTRATING elements of nature sufficient tt
B. restore the most of them to health, when right
- ly developed by a proper application. 1t is il
these that God has placed the power adapted t.
overcome the worst forms Of human disease
O. Why should we ever think of anything else
ne By these the lame may be made to waikiki
w blind may be made to see, and various forms
BY chronic disorder completely overcome, thong
'p they may be of many years duration, and ut
terly incurablc by poisonous remedies.
In another column of this paper, in connet
a ton with the advertisement of the Grant
u State Health Institute, may be found the test
on monies of some who have been restored to healt
as after long course of suffering FROM desperat
he diseases, and long and careful trial of dru
remedies, without success.
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