East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-05-04

that to produce and maintain well
body IT Is necessary first to have u
sound mind, she tRught that all sick
ness is based IN thought -contamina-
tion, that people who think cleanly and
correctly live that way and are propor-
tionately immune from disease. She
taught true sanitation to the cleanll-
ness Of mind and body true hygiene to
be morautNtrue physiology to be
SPIRITUALITY These she recognized to
constitute public health. Ns for so
called communicable diseases. Mrs.
Eddy required strict obedience to
quarantine regulations, respecting not
only the law Of the land hut nuhllc
/ sentiment also, Nevertheless, She knew
/ that the only real germ Is the germ of
spiritual Truth, which when cultured
/ in human consciousness. never ceases
+. It's growth tin the whole lump of NOR
tai thought Is spiIftualized and mans
( true self-hood appears, This germ IL
highly infectious and contagious. yet
It produces. not disease. but health,
not discord. hut harmony, not death,
but life.
But you say, how can one question
the germ theory Of disease when one
may readily see the actual germ under
the microscope The germ theory IL
not provahle by the microscope any
more surely than mirage of the des-
crt would be established az a reality
because seen through telescope.
Neither magnifying nor minimizing
error can make 1t true,
As tu the germ theory Of disease
there has arisen the usual failure of
the doctors to agree. A famous mill
tarv surgeon recently is reported TO
have said that the more bacteria one
breathed, the less liable one would be-
come to disease, because of the inn
) munity established through the system
becoming accustomed TO foul condi-
tous. In other words. to become i'm
mune from disease, set on familiar
terms with disease germs. Familiarity
with bacteria, It seems breeds not
only contempt but immunity. Never
theless, such immunity is not mater
ial, after all. but mental That would
seem 70 be borne out of the fact that
: physicians rarely take the diseases
with which they are thrown. CThey
; almost never take their own medicine.)
Again, class OF investigators. mum.
| bering representatives OF the Public
Health Service, and many scientists
; from our great universities enter
: complete denial of the germ theory.
, substituting therefore the worm
1 theory. These scientists aver that So
= called germ diseases are In reality
Fl. worm diseases and already the lengthy
9 list OF vegetable bacteria In paralleled
r by replaced set OF animal forms.
! There would seem to be small choice
1 between being consumed by germs or
G eaten by worms but this innovation
7 IN medical theories presents another
e rcalignment Of the medical kaleidos-
< cope.
The facts are that just as the atomic
theory gave place to changing thought.
embodied In the theory that matter is
electricity or holes in the ether, and
thus prefigured further and more
, nearly final theories, so has the germ
: theory OF disease begun to dsintegrate
under the restiyeness of the material
scientists thirst for ultimate knowl-
edge. A short time ago. It was eonsid-
cred folly 20 challenge the germ the
ory Today, we have actually arrived
at its breaking up. There are large
and growing numbers Of the medi-
cal faculty who boldly disclaim that
bacteria have anything more than pos
sibly a helpful role to play in disease.
BY these authorities disease germs are
regarded as merely scavcngcrs. which
are usually present for wholly be-
nisn purpose. Writing recently In The
Medical Record, one Of the most prom
inent surgeons in America announced.
with regard to the germ and the the
orF of its action in disease and tho
transmission of disease Except as sec
ondary invadcrs) all the facts Of my
experience are in opposition to tho
present teaching. The ancient belief
that the sick man was possessed with
a demon which must be driven out has
its modern parallel In the belief that
the starting point Of disease is in the
Introduction OF a foreign agent into
,, the body, The germ is the modern
demon. You have but to substitute
the idea of the germ for the idea OF
the demon and the medical practice
of today is but a kind of exorcism."
He continues: AS Lloyd George has
said, The whole world must lie re-
made and in the reconstruction, medi-
cal and surgical practice must be re-
formed" His conclusions. from ex-
haustive experiments are that diseases
are caused by poisons produced by ne.
crosis and decay of cellular tisseus. "T
have found" he says, that mans
greatest enemy is his own decaying
tissue"
Note that in this newest theory OF
disease, n man is made ILL., not from
without, but from within Another re-
arrangement of the kalcidoscopel for
here, as always material medicine
consistently looks to matter as tho
cause of its own diseases, and to re-
move the offending tissues LAYS hands
rudely upon the helpless body.
Jesus said: "a mans foes shall be
they Of his own household" and Mrs
EDDY has shown that mans house,
hold In HIS mentality. Metaphysically
viewed. this new medical theory re-
Veals that mortal man is made i'll by
his own false beliefs. Mrs. Eddy said
that fifty years ago The proper the
scientific way, to get rid OF disease is
not to excise the effect, but rather to
correct the cause. Christian Science
meals and prevents disease, just as 1t
abolishes all other inharmonles,
through the destruction of false be-
llefs by the application to them of
! spiritual truth.
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