The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-02
NATURES ELIXIR.
A Serious Subject to Which Women Ought
to Devote Attention.

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A Serious Subject to Which Women Ought
to Devote Attention.
Editor WOmanS Column. Morning Call i:
"a sound heart is The life of the flesh"
Prov xiv.
While the whole civilized world is COM
mentiDg upon the wonderful discovery and
cure of Professor Koch, and while we are
all anxiously awaiting something more def
mite in regard to what might be Just Y
termed the greatest achievement of medical
science in the nineteenth century, pro-
found silence is manifested as 10 how we
shall prevent the formation and spread of
those dr. AIDED diseases to which mankind
has been and will always be subjected so
long as he willfully remains ignorant OF the
simple laws of nature which govern the
length and health of mans life. The
benefits to be derived from the study of
cure are triiling when compared to the
grand results OF a close analysis of the
simple fluid which controls for sickness or
health the entre human race. II IS n we'll
known fact that to create rich, nutritious
blood we must eat Wholesome 1oOd and
breathe fresh, pure air.
Air is of the first importance to life. and
GGd iIr> his mercy has provided 1t for US
everywhere. If we had TO raise and Guilt
vate it for breathing purposes as we do
ii would be the sole occupation of our lives,
for it is more vital TO life than either water
OF food; and the great error of man Is that
he either willfnlly or through ignorance
shuts off the supply and brings on disease by
inhaling poisonous substance which can
not successfully assist in the manufacture of
pure blood which is essential tt health and
long life. The most Intelligent minds OF the
present day are not satisfied with the
fallacies which pretend to cure moral and
nbycipal hisaaces hut sock dispnUar the
means by which health can be maintained
when once secured, and abuses abolished
which have led to so many disasters in the
human family.
The entire human system is under the con-
troll of the heart as chief organ, the other or
gans acting as deputies, and 1t is necessary
for the proper fulhlment of Its duty to keep
the blood in constant circulation. Before
animal or vegetable substances can nOurlSh
us, their condition must he entirely changed.
Their substances being composed of the
four chemical elements OF which the hui
man system is formed, make them of neceS-
silly capable of nOuriShng the body and
forming blood. From tine time the food
enters the mouth until it is sent as blood
from the lungs to the right side of the
heart, from which it is sent into the aorta,
and thence into smaller blood vessels,
until " finds Its way to every part OF the
| system, every portion OF our delicately Or
| gained machinery is performing its share
of the vital essence.
1t is very wonderful fact that the dead
| matter which we so rarelesSly and reckless
! ly pass into the mouth, grind with the teeth,
soften by the saliva and solve by the gastric
| juice and bile has now acquired life 1t is
| impossible to tell the exact moment when it
| began to live; but it has. nevertheless, BY
| all OF the combined processes to which the
| food has been subjected been advanced from
the dead to the living state. And by the use
n ttnt nj inc mt In Nil
| scOpe-whch has done so much toward ad-
| vancing the science OF medicine, it will be
| found to consist of millions of minute cells
| lncloslng matters essential to life. And il
is in this way that the character of the food
| we eat and digest, and the air which we
breathe, manifests itself in the poverty or
richness of the blood. And if the blood is
| charged with offensive matters it is i'll
adapted to facilitate a healthy circulation.
| In this way the dreaded and dangerous dis
eases form from which 1t seems almost i'm
| possible to escape.
The real tests of successful treatment,
therefore, are not in the cure, but in the re-
| moval of disease.
Nature and its laws should be an open
| book. In animal and vegetable life we do
not seek to hide the workings OF nature, Dor
do we consider 1t indicate to point out 10
the child how the planting OF tiny seed or
the e0habitation OF the fowls, birds and
animals increase the vegetable and animal
|
Aud shall we as an Intelligent and civilized
people build up the animal and vegetable
Kingdom by the deterioration of our own
race by concealing from our offspring
through false deicacy, the knowledge Of
inc laws which govern nature, til Q use and
abuse OF the various organs which contro
our being, and afford evidence of the power
and goodness of God, to whom we are in
de6ted Tor the life which we enjoyp
Hereditary laws are irrevocable. In the
process of creation. If the blood is impure
| but Que result can follow, even unto the
third and fourth generation Instead OF
| establishing so many medical colleges
would 1t not be better to erect temple 70
| hygiene, where students of both sexes coalt
learn the grand lesson of natures laws, ant
where Materia Medica could win greater
laurels by teaching us how to live, instead
OF helping us to die? Women can use thei
influence to bring about such result, and
they should use it.
! Alameda, Dec. "a, 1890 81 MITCHELL.