Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-01-06
Health and Disease.
BY W. T. VAIL, N. d.

are not at all necessary in the treatment of dis II
eases, and to make them properly appreciate the P
value of congenial and compatible elements and
to understand them and believe that these are .
vastly more potent in restoring the sick man to 3
health than the others possibly can be, well
understand the magnitude of the task have
undertaken well knowing that / should have
the current of long established custom and
the tide of a popular prejudice to contend with. Q
have not commenced this undertaking without
providing myself with the means necessary sue
cessfuly to prosecute it. First in the order of
these, come the evidences; clear, deceive, I'M
questionable, and incontroyertible. 1t being
quite supposble that | myself might be an in
terested advocate in this matter, shall take
good care to assume nothing, nor make any
| affirmation on my own account but only let
those speak who have had a practical experience
in their own persons Of the actual workings of
this new mode. A cloud of witnesses so numc-
rous, credible, respectable, and unimpeachable,
stand ready and even anxious to testify, that no
reasonable being, having confidence in his own
senses, if he but give heed to their testimony,
can any longer be enveloped in doubt. The
blind man, long known to be blind, if no de- |
clare to US that he now sees, and demonstrate
to us, by his movements, the fact, compels us
into assent; the lame man who throws away
his clutches and walks again like his fellows,
gives an unqucstionable confederation to his
testimony which makes it the sure word of
knowledge asd of faith to every honest inquirer.
The miserable bed-rdden sufferer, who arises
and puts OR the vigor and activity of manhood
or womanhood again, after several or many
long years of deprivation and suffering, is a
witness not to be dispised by any save those
whose prejudices or whose vanity would close
up the gateway to all further knowledge, and
make them content with the present.
To the end which have undertaken, | there
fore transmit to you for publication in another
column of this paper the testimonials Of two
ladies who had long sought in vain for those
blessings without which life is tax to u.s. u
sorrow, Il useless waste of creative energy, and
altogether Il thing to be regretted. The history
of the first lady case is interesting Five years
before her application to me lady friend of hers
who had long suffered from chronic disease
which rendered her life burdensome anu worth
less, visited my Institute and was perfectly re
stored in a few weeks. On returning home she
advised her friends to lose no time in abandon
! ing poisonous agents and seeking the new mode
Twas an idea too absurd, however, to her MIND
to think of any such thing. She knew hcl
) friend had been sick she saw she was perfect,
. cured still the idea of treating disease with
out the use of drugs and medicines appeared tt
, her rather in the light of sublime joke thar
otherwise She could not apply. She mus
wait. She must try the virtue of the cid mod
further. She did wait, and how long woulc
. You think, reader? Just five years at the en-
of this time, emaciated, bloodless, and power
less, she was brought into my Office in her nus
- band arms; to walk or stand up she. had n
: power; and more hopeless unpromising look
ing patient physician never had. Reader sh
is nova living testimony strong as anythin
OF the kind possibly can be, of the virtue of ma
y lures own mode of curing disease
\ The other case is that of young lady VIII
> had been two years wholly blind, and who ha
l. sought various measures of relief to no purpose
4, She was perfectly restored in short tins an
Nj now testifes over her own signature, in her ow
III handwriting.
We have one thousand cases just as interes
II, ing and justas conclusive as the above to pul
4. lish for the information and conviction of a
h. who desire knowledge of so great and impo
bc tant matters of fact, so intimately connecte
No with the welfare of our race and propose
70 publish this number of cases as q nucleus upo
H. which to rest our arguments in favor of Il
l. non-poisonous plan in the treatment of huma
f. maladies; and by which we mean to persuat
~. n few thousand more of our unfortunate fello
beings to flee from the wrath of both poiso
and disease.
vi We therefore ask our medical brethren,
ed well as the sick and suffering, to consid
he whether there be not some better mode tn;
ed the continued administration of drugs year aft
= year, the patients meanwhile only becomi
~ more confirmed invalids, more hopeless and i
NJ durable There are great hosts who are nc
MS suffering all the horrors, Inconvenience al
losses of long continued disease who will
aes readily cured if they will do this. They CT
ne easily thus add to their reputation as physical
,xt and to the happiness and prosperity of the wor
and hasten that good time coming, when t
=; majority of mankind shall live, to at least HI
their naturel age, in perfect immunity from
ease To this end we shall be glad to help a
w. to labor as we have no secrets in our mode.
tia GRANITE STATE HEALTH INSTITUTE, Hill, n.