Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-09-17
NATURES Healing POWER.

Abstract of a Lecture BY j. H. Kellogg,
NJ. d., OF Battle Creek Sanitarium.
There is no class of men who have SO
little faith in remedies as really scien-
ti6c physicians. The people who have
the most implicit confidence in medi-
cines are those who know the least
about them. The important thing for
every one to know Is that nature cures
sick people, not doctors Suppose man
accidentally cuts off the end of his
thumb; the doctor puts the piece on
quickly, fastens it with few stitches
and says he thinks it will soon be we'll
He may put on at the same time little
salve or liniment which he assures the
patient has great healing qualities, but
intelligent people know that nothing
can effect healing; that nature must
take up the broken stitches gradually
and knit the thumb on. This of course
is plain case, but it is analogous to
the process by which any part which
has been damaged must be repaired.
1t is not done by medicines or by magic
but by the healing power of nature-by
the inherent 0is macdicdfri1 nature.
In the lower orders of animal life
this power of return is much greater
than in human being Take q polyp
and cut 1t into pieces and each piece
will develop new polvp; cut an earth
worm in two and the part containing the
head will grow a new tail and the tail
will grow new head. Some fishes can
supply themselves with a new fin if one
has been lost, and crabs and Holsters
grow on new legs Lobsters are very
reckless with their legs and throw them
of or pull them off on slight provoca-
tion. But Holsters moult every six
weeks and deep in the body are what
may be called leg buds which are cap
able of developing to replace a member
which has been lost The supply has a
limit and can be exhausted if lobster
is too prodigal. These leg buds we'll
represent the reserve force and curative
properties of the body. Nature has
given us intelligence so that we are ex-
pected to take better care of ourselves
than these lower creatures whose power
OF self,protection is very small. If, with
our greater intelligence, We neglect to
take care of ourselves, we are punished,
and greatly punished If man abuses
his stomach by putting into it all sorts
of indigestible compounds at hours sea-
sonable and unreasonable, after a while
he will reach the limit of its ris naedica-
trir nature. He may have thought and
declared that it did not make any differ
enee what he ate, he could digest any
thing. just as the lobster may have
thought his supply of leg buds was in
exhaustible, and acting upon that sup
position, have found himself legless
some day.
The same principle applies to other
organs of the body. Livers are fre-
quently overtaxed with tea, coffee, con-
ailments, fats and sweets, and by taking
medicines Probably no organ of the
body is so abused by medication as the
liver. Others are continually whipping
up their nerves. Nature would repair
and recuperate the nerve force If al
Loved rest and quiet A lawyer has an
importsat case in court; his nerve tone
is almost exhausted. He goes to doc
tor and wants some medicine, The
doctor advises a few weeks rest The
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"A coaQta of singing mice are the
pets Of ]. F. Ghelton, of Woods Cross
Naas. Va He is the captain of the
= >SeF Anna Lloyd, and the frst
cho> - captured three months ago
mouse v ef Ris vessel while on Glou-
n the cabin :, ns little fellow was
'ester Point v @eEFily at sll hours,
aged, and he sang %At like the ayb-
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n the cabin by Captain Chelton, -
low the companion of the one prev.>
> captured. They keep M > hvel.
concert az sn hours Of the day and
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