The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-02-26
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change a horses food as his work
changes?
1 have quoted these two cases sub
mitted by interested readers of these
articles to exemplify an important fun
damental principle-that it is often
difficult to distinguish between health
and disease. So important is this
principle, and so fatal are the effects
of ignorance of it, that l wish to make
it still clearer, by examples.
A few weeks ago met on the street
a minister with whose work in a
small town, near Chicago, l was init
mately acquainted last year. He had
a new charge now, a larger, more pros
porous and more harmonious congre-
cation.
"You are looking much better than
when l saw you last" l said (Which
happened to be true-it never helps a
man to tell him he looks sick, even if
it is true).
"Well," he said, 81 am feeling bet
ter in every way, except that l have
one trouble that is really becoming
serious; for days / have had constant
diarrhoea, and nothing seems to stop
It."
That's WELL" l said. for l was IA
miliar with his case preceding his
| change of surroundings, and took
| hasty inventory of his condition. He
had been much depressed the preced-
| ing year (mental depression often in
duces constipation and his nutritive
powers, mental and physical, were &C
| cordingly reduced, and he had lost in
| flesh and accumulated waste in the It's
sues). Now there was a revival all
| the tissues were expanding and waste
| was being eliminated through the
| bowels; but more than that, the sys-
| tenn was adjusting itself, rapidly, to
more wholesome mental conditions,
and there was, as the engineer says,
some exhaust steam. Should he take
| a standard remedy to stop the diar-
hoea?
A woman who had suffered for years
from dyspepsia, accompanied by con-
| StipatiOn, went to large sanitarium
where she had every opportunity for
| cure. For while she improved, then
she began to grow steadily worse. She
quit the place, dissatisfied, and went
to private sanitarium in Chicago.
The physician there understood that
painful healing efforts of nature are
often mistaken for signs of disease.
She grew worse" became very sick.
and got WE'LL
What would have been the effect OF
curing" that sickness?
A gentleman past middle life was
advised to make some material
changes in his diet, which he did with
decided benefit for several mouths.
Then he began to go steadily down
HILL" as he thought. He consulted an
diet the cause of his entire trouble,
gave him a tonic and advised him to
return to his old liberal diet, includ-
ing meat, and now he feels better; "a
result due, chiefly, to improved mental
conditions induced by his friends,
who rejoice with him in the return of
his sanity! The best diet in the world,
with continual worry, will kill any.
body, and the prison records of Poland
show that man can live for so years
| on bread and water.
How, then, shall I know whether I
am sick or well?' asks the bewildered
reader.
You are always well, If you really
think so. There is more truth in this
statement than l have space to ex-
plain here, for l am dealing now with
| diet, not with suggestion. But let me
| briefly state the best course to follow
under all circumstances:
Follow nature. If nature is work
| ing in certain direction to bring
about normal conditions of health, CO.
| operate with her, especially in thought
| Be careful that you do not misinterpret
| her efforts and antagonize her. Don't
be in too great haste to stop pain by
| the quickest means, for you may stop
| the healing process. Better do nothing
| than do wrong.
1t is the business of the educated
| physician, one not merely skilled in
dosage or in the use of the knife, to
study your case and advise wisely
cautiously and honorably, and you
should give him time to do it and pay
| him cheerfully and literally, but OBJ
serve that the thing of real value is
| his wise counsel, which comes only OF
| long study and experience.
To follow our inclinations would be
the wisest course in all cases if we
had always lived naturally, but sven
| if we have, our ancestors did not The
most valuable knowledge the scientific
| physician possesses is his elaborate
knowledge of the normal conditions OF
all the physical functions and the
means by which these conditions are
maintained or restored.
Whatever the condition, hope is a
| prime factor in the cure; the will and
faith are to be exercised. If these
| right mental conditions are supplied.
with the right food and the proper
care of the body all is WELL
Foghorn Arouses Birds.
| There has just been erected On the