The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-06-14

cal college. | was required to devote much
study to The Principles and Practice OF
Medicine" a better term for the subject
would have been. The Principles and
Practice of Medicine for 1900" Material
medicine has always been in a state of
fiuH. because it mas never of itself risen,
in theory or practice. above matter. Even
when the mattcr physician discourses
learnedly on mind and deals with psyche
analysis. psyche neurosis. psycho-therapy.
and psycho-what not. he deals none the
less with matter. Tor the matelialist, mind
means lutte else than brain-matter. While
the materiaSt has not yet learned that
matter and mortal mind are one neverthe-
less the healing art is drawing nearer
the truth as revealed in Christian Science.
Progressive physicians, in practice, are
steadily reducing their legion of remedies.
Many doctors admit that there Is no speci-
iic medicine. Many boast that they limit
their practice to four or five drugs.
have even known physicians who declar red
that physic and pain-relieVer compris-
Ell their entire materia mediCa. 1t is eV-
ldent that if one can reduce the pharma-
copeia in practice to one two remedies.
he can take the reXt step and eliminate
the drug entirely from medical practice.
1t may be argued that God placed drugs
here and endowed them with healing
power. When did Spirit. God delegate to
matter divine power? Material medicine
did not qualify for Christian healing in
Jesus day. He ignored it and turned in
stead to purely spiritual means. Could
Jesus in his wisdom consistently have
chosen an unscientific. and hence untrue.
method with which to prove his windrous
power to heal? Moreover. Jesus was not
alone in his Christian practice. The Bible
is full of the teaching and practice of
spiritual healing. but you will search its
pages in vain 'or an authentic case of
healing by material means. Even so
tTI., ,,,,I H.. e...I
1t is not the Christ method of healing.
Nothing spiritual can come out of Il
wholly material system. and material
medicine is such. Indeed. not one spirit
ual quality does ii embody in its theory
or require in its practice. The very study
of material medicine leads one away
from the spiritual. Who has ever found
soul of spirit in he dssectinG room, on
the operating table. under the mic
roscope? am aware that many noble men
and women, true Christians, are in the
medical profession. TO them all honor
and respect For il is obvious that these
are such. not because of. but in spite of
their professional training.
If you were ask any medical en-
thusiast to name the greatest scientific
achievement of the age, doubtless he would
say: preventive medicine. Now with
that Christian Science agrees. but points
out that, since anything to be medicine.
must first be regarded such, medicine
is mental. not material Therefore proven
tive medicine begins with Mind. M rs.
Eddy was the FIRST in this age to pro-
claim and TO demonstrate that health is a
stare OF Mind not a state of matter: that
to produce and lnalnt ain we'll body. it
is necessary first to have a sound mind.
She taught that IL sickness is based in
thought cont animation, that people who
think clearly and correctly live that way
and are proportionately immune from dis
ease, She taught true sanitation to he
cleanliness of mind and body. true by
eiene to be morality true physiology to
be spirituality. Those she recognized to
constitute public health. As for so-called
communicable diseases 10 quarantine req
ulations. respectin" not only the law OF
the land hut public sentiment also New
ertheless, She knew that the only real germ
is the germ of spiritual Truth. which when
cultured in human consciousness, never
ceases its Growth Till the whole lump Of
mortal thought is spiritualized and man IS
true sclf-hood appears This germ is
,.hiehIV infections and CONTAGIOUS, vet it
produces. not disease. but health. not dis
go d. but harmony. not death, hut life
But YOU say how can ono question the
gerw theory of disenso when ono may
readily see the actual CORN under the
microscope? The rerm theory is not prov
able bv the miscrosoope any more surely
tHan mirage IF lie desert would be
Aestahlished as "A realty because seen
Throuch telescope Neither magnifynp
TSnor minimizing error car make it true.
Il As TO the germ theory oC disease.
ihhoro has arisen the usual famro Of the
doctors to aqree. 4 famous military sur
ge9n recently is cporled to have said that
the more hacteria one breathed. the less
lialle one would become to disease because
OF he immunity established through the
system becominp accustomed to foul
conditions: In other words, to bee me
immune from disease. get on familiar
terms with disease germs. Familiarity
with bacteria. it seems breeds not only
contempt but immunity. Nevertheless,
such immunity is not material. after all,
but mental. That would seem to be
borne out bv the fact that physicians
rarely take the diseases with which they
thrown. lThcv almost never take their
own medicinel.
Again. a class of investigators. num-
| horin" representatives of the Public
Health Service, ard many scientists from
our GREAT universities. enter complete
| denial of the germ theory. substituting
| therefor the worm theory. These scien-
| fists aver that SPECIALIZED germ diseases arc
| in realitv worm diseases and already the
| LENGTHY list of ,egetable bacteria is par
| alleled by a replacer set of animal worms
| There would seem to he small choice be-
| tween being consumed by germs or eaten
| bv worms. but this innovation in medical
| the medical kaleidoscope.
| The facts are that just as the atomic
| theory rave place to changing thought.
embodied in the theory that matter is
electricity or holes in the ether. and thus
| refipured further and more nearly final
! theories. has the germ theory of disease
! begun to disirtegate. under the restivenees
of the material scientists thirst for ul-
| innate KNOWLEDGE. 4 short time apo
it was considered folly TO CHALLENGE the
| germ theory. Todav. we have actually ar
| rived at its breaking mp. There are
| LARGE and growing numbers of the med
| ical faculty who loldly disclaim that bee
| terra have anything moro than possibly
| a helpful role to plav in disease. Bv these
! authorities disease germs are regarded rs
merely scaveupers. which are USUALLY pres.
| ent for wholly bevipr purpose. Writing
recently in The Medical Record, one OF
the most prominent surgeons in America
anpounced with regard to the germ
| and the theory OF its action in disease anC
| the transmission of disease Except sec
ondaIy invaders) all the facts of my ex.
| perence are in opposition to the present
| teaching. The ancient belief that the sict
man was possessed with a demon which
| must he driven out has its modern parable
| in the belief that the starting point oi
disease is in the introduction of foreign
agent into the body. The germ is the
| modern demon You have but to eubsti
tute the idea of he germ for the idea oil
the demon and the medical practice OF
| today is but lird ol eXorcsm." ",
continues: LAS loyd GEORGE hos said
THE whole world must be re-Inada' ano
| in the reconstruction. medical md su~"i
cal practice must be reformed" Hi
conclusions. from the exhaustive eNne~i
ments are that diseases are carsed by
PRISONS produced By necrosis and decay
Of cellular tissues. II have found Sc he
says. that mans greatest enemy is his
own decayng tissue"
Note that in this newest theory Of dis
ease, a man is made i'll. not from with
out but from within. Another rearrangc
ment of the kaleidoscope! for here, "'
alwavs. material medicine consistently
! looks TO matter as the cause Of It's owl
Diseases and to remove the offending
issues lays hands rudely upon the help