The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-08-06

THE BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM
Or. Kellogg Says God Intends That
People Shall Live and Enjoy Life
Up to 100 Years!

Letter From President Frost
Dear Citizen Readers:
There are two kinds OF people in
the world, the sick and the well, and
the majority are sick.
There are the people sick in bed,
and the people with illness that does
not knock them down but just makes
them uncomfortable, cross and inef-
ficient. Practically all women are
sick, and all men above forty years
OF age. II is fashionable to be out
Of health!
People who are we'll cannot ina
CINE that they could ever be sick, and
neglect their health. People who are
sick have forgotten how it feels to
be well and make no resolute efforts
to be cured. I greatly fear that some
Of our readers are neglecting to read
1.-THE Health Master" that we are
now printing in The Citizen. It is
only when people get right down TO
deaths door that they begin to think
and struggle and then it is too late.
And yet everybody agrees that the
greatest blessing in the world, after
religion itself, is good health.
The Battle Creek Sanitarium is an
institution like a great College, de-
voted to good health. Here is
large campus with enormous build
ings, rooms for 1900 patients and
400 doctors, nurses, cooks, bathers,
walters and attendants; and on this
campus the laws of health are car
ried out as perhaps nowhere else in
the world. It is like Berea in some
things-no liquor, tobacco or dane
ing or card-playing and lights out
and doors closed at an early hour. |
But it is ahead Of Berea in some
conditions Of health--it is cleaner,
it always has graham bread, and it
always keeps the windows openl
The actual treatment of patients is
all an attempt to assist Nature. The
great remedy is Whitewater drunk
in good quantity, and water applied
in baths, hot and cold.
OF course there is the most scien-
tific examination of each case-tests
for blood, urine, ETC., and one OF the
best X-Ray establishments in the
world. u.s. .e. e..
And then there are all the appli-
ances and conveniences that modern
science has provided.
But the means relied upon are aft |
er all very simple-Nature will heal
us if we will relieve her of stimu-
lants, pOisons, disease germs, and
unnecessary strains. .,-
II is wonderful what a flannel
blanket wrung out of hot water can
do when applied to sick mans back
or stomaohe or feet. And il is won
derful what good table can be set
without bit Of meat in any form.
Many entirely new luxuries are pro-
vided-unheard OF vegetables, pear
juice, pine nuts and many others.
And everything is well-cooked and
served. II
The patients are of all kinds from
those just here for a little hssty
rest, to those who come TO have their
dying hours soothed. We do not, OF
course, see those in serious illness
except as they may be taken onto
The lawn in wheelchairs.
had been here twice before for
few days Of rest and good food, but
his time | came hoping I might be
id OF one Of my standing infirmities.
was well man until 1900. In that
year my heart was broken and my
,Ody permanently manned. Then IL
VAS that first saw a sanitarium and |
began TO know my limitations and |
nave pain as a rather constant COM
)anion. II
OF my three chief infirmities one |
'ould probably be relieved by the
knife IL | could bear the
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