The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-23
Home Health Club
 by DIR. DAVID BREEDER Chcaoo

Real Medicine vs. Deadly Drugs
 The pendulum of the clock swings
 back and forth. It's movements meas
 ure what We call time. The pendulum
 of human actions, fads, fancies or
 beliefs swings to and fro, action and
 reaction.
 The history of medicine, to the close observer shows that the medi-
 cal profession has always been slow to give up certain methods of treat ment, no matter how erroneous time
 may prove such methods to have been. Reforms in practical and safe
 methods of treatment have nearly al
 ways been led by clear-headed, far
 sighted, deep thinking laymen, the kind that are called cranks or fad
 dists. They get their first informa-
 tion from the physician. As a rule they are sufferers and happen to
 go to the right doctor who tells them
 the truth about their condition and
 the safe means of home cure. They
 apply the means with their natural enthusiasm, are cured and at once be- come a missionary, preaching the gos- pei of health by the same road that restored them. We call them cranks and faddists because the same method that cured Hiram of rheumatism will not always cure a bunit n, nor a sore throat in the case of Mary Ann. Those who do find really helpful things and advocate them strongly are nearly always persecuted more
 or less by the people who should give
 them the greatest aid.
 Old Doctor Samuel Thompson of New Hampshire, the bl cksrnith, bo-
 tanist, was practically the father of
 non-poisonous herb medicines and for
 the great pains he took and the many
 cures that were wrought under his
 treatment, he was arrested time af-
 ter time by men who styled them
 selves the legal practitioners of medi- cine and could bleed a man to death
 or give a deadly poison without fear
 of law. In our day such n-en as Ber- hard McFadden, Eugene Chris ian and many other advocates of drugIess
 healing have had to defend them
 selves in the courts
 For a number of years the pendu-
 Ium of practice was in favor of the
 deadly poisons, opiates, narcotics.
 coal tar preparations ana rnelr Kin
 dred. Along with these came surgery and there seemed for a time to be a
 perfect carnival of gore each sur geon trying to outdo the others in
 the number and daring of his opera t1OnS- AccOfQ1ng to the usual reports, the operation was highly successful. but the patient, very inconsIderate of the doctors feelings, died of shock
 The pendulum is now swinging to
 herb remedies and correct diet and less surgery.
 Properly selected foods (and as foods I class all the herbs that are l used in the treatment of disease) properly eaten, together with hydro | therapy, exercise, nassag ge, osteopa- thy, fresh air, sunshine and a reason 1 able sanitation about home vii do more for the sick than all the poi sons. opiates narcotics and coal tar
 prerarations ever compounded by the i most skillful chemist in the world. After a person has been pronounc- 1 ed "cured" by surgery and poisons | they turn, a rule, to those of us | who love mother nature and try to 1 follow her laws. The hardest part of | our task is to get those foreign ele- ments out of the system after which | the original cause of the suffering | can usually be removed, then nature does the curing.
 Your body is made out of the food ii you eat. If you are not well you are not eating wisely or we'll There are. | to be sure, many mechanical causes l for i'll health, but not so many as l some surgeons would have us believe. ! Get in line with the Home Health