In spite of being the possessor of the most perfect machine in creation — the human body — the average person takes very little interest in it. You will go to no end of trouble to learn how to take proper care of your car, home, or job, but the care of the greatest possession of all, your body, you leave to the doctor. Granted, the doctor knows more about the human body than does the layman, but it still is no excuse for anyone to be ignorant on this all-important subject.
Knowledge of our body, its functions, and requirements creates in us an interest and a certain reverence towards it, and, thus, gives us an inducement to take better care of ourselves. Matters of correct diet, natural environment, proper posture, exercise, relaxation, sleep, sex life, et cetera, should be clearly understood by everyone.
Ability to recognize and correct minor, and even some major, illnesses is essential, both because of the benefits directly derived and of the peace of mind and assurance this knowledge will bring. The average man, and particularly the woman who has to handle children in the family, are helpless and worried most of the time over themselves and their loved ones due to lack of knowledge to handle emergencies. The slightest trifling symptoms of sickness leave them frustrated because they are actually groping in the dark. Many become nervous wrecks due to constant worry and strain caused by sickness in the family.
Many families are in perpetual debt and misery due to enormous sums of money spent on doctors and hospitals treating one member of the family after another — sometimes, all at the same time. Imagine! So much money wasted by poor people when it could be used as the backbone of their future economic security!
Many dollars could be saved by understanding the simple natural ways of treating illness.
Surgery is also a bit overdone nowadays in spite of its being one of the most modern branches of the medical science. Our body consists of a number of interrelated parts or organs, each having its own work to do, but, at the same time, connected with, and dependent on, all other parts of the body. Each one of them was placed there by nature, which is the source of the greatest wisdom in this universe, and once it is there it belongs there and is indispensable to the body.
To remove any organ means robbing the body of its normal functioning, its efficiency, comfort, and resistance to disease. Doing that will not remove the cause of sickness, which is actually a result of a constant flow of harmful foods into the body. Purify the blood and it will then clear the diseased organ of all the accumulations of pus and dead matter, and then, once more, the organ will begin to function properly. Tonsils, adenoids, kidneys, sinuses, et cetera, no matter how deteriorated they are, will respond quickly and rebuild themselves if given the opportunity and right treatment. Surgery should be used only in cases of accidental emergencies but not in chronic diseases.
While on the subject of medical science let us take a look at one particular branch of it. Lately we have been hearing so much about new “wonder drugs” that we get rather confused. They are claimed by manufacturers and promoters to perform miracles in curing various ailments. But, somehow, all these wonder drugs fade out one by one while new ones make their much advertised appearance on the horizon. Before they disappear they usually take with them a toll of many thousands of human lives which are carried away by the malignant effects of these poisonous chemicals. While used they may disguise or lessen pain in one part of the body, but afterwards they prove to have affected another part or parts of the body in a still more aggravated manner. Here is one instance of a wonder drug which recently departed from the market —an anticoagulant designed to prevent heart attacks — it proved to cause brain hemorrhage with complete paralysis of one hand, overdoses of it causing instant death.