Show HYGIENIC MEDICINE an in intelligent view of an important Sub subject jeet SALT LAKE CITY july editor deseret news I 1 have read with much interest brother D M McAlli mcallisters articles upon the subject of health which have appeared from time to time in chedes BRET news in dr jacksons platform as published in the lawt laws ot of health and copied into the article in III the be ot the dinst occurs one due sentence upon which I 1 wish to make mak e a few rei remarks narks it is this that therefore the best philosophy phy upon which to proceed to treat any sick person is to employ such means as had bad they been properly used would have kept him im f from getting sick this proposition doubtless is true and may be restated re stated thus the organism ot of man like all other creations of nature is governed by natural laws these laws are f fulfilled ul filled by a right use ase of certain hygienic or health agents these are air light water food exercise sleep clothing temperature and the passions a rient use of these resulting in health while their misuse results in disease it therefore necessarily follows that as a special misuse of some one or more of these agents have resulted in disease a special right use of them adapted to the requirements of each particular prise will result in health if the above views are f fully ally accepted by the patient one of the chief difficulties in the way of hygienic medication will have been removed for to accept them indicates a proper understanding of the fundamental principles plea of medical science but while the people believe that medicines cure disease that something must be taken in order to remove disease and that nature has provided drug remedies for diseases very little can be done in treating the sick by th elite life agencies the people look upon disease as being a tiling thins having its residence in the bod body and that medicines attack this thing thing disease to kill expel or eradicate it not long since a countr country y PC doctor declared that he had a medicine which would knock rheumatism hi higher her than a kite that that statement was a vulgar expression of the popular theory of disease easland and of the action of me medicine dicine the more refined physician would speak of subduing exterminating or removing disease now if disease is a thing which invades v the human system working devastation and death of couise this thin thing must be attacked by a medicine a dagg drug a poison in order to kill eppell or subdue it therefore what is the use to talk of air food water etc for that purpose disease would laugh at you tile healan agents are not strong enough a L medicine in other words a poison must ie be e employed m to rout this fellow disease ane above paragraph represents the popular view ot of disease of the inefficiency of f hygienic medic medication atIo and of the superiority of drugs tit that medicines have failed millions of times and have destroyed millions of lives does not seem perceptibly to shake the frithof faith of people in their employment lor for having a false theory of the essential nature of disease and of the action of medicines firmly rooted in tile the mind they conclude that the failure and death resulting from the use of drugs is not because theories are false and drugs bad but for the reason that the proper drug or cow combination of drugs has not yet been discovered for the particular case so they go on trying one doctor and medicine after another to the end of life or till they become disgusted with all systems of treatment before the people can receive the or only true system of medication the hagle hygienic nic they must be convinced that the prevailing medical philosophy teaches 1 A false theory of the essential n nature a of disease and 2 A false theory i of the action of me medicines di cines their theories being the very opposite of fact aud and truth at some future time I 1 should be pleased to offer you some views of eminent practitioners upon the subject of these fale theories and also w what hat they conceive to be the only true principles upon which to treat the sick flick respectfully |