Chapter VII - Physiology
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primitive privilege was to take no thought about the
primitive privilege was to take no thought about the
bowels, or gastric juices, letting these act in obedience
to Truth, instead of error. A ghastly array of diseases
was not constantly kept before the mind by works
on physiology, hygiene and materia medica; hence the
greater longevity and more harmony of man. Before
these got the floor, dyspepsia, consumption, spinal dis-
eases, etc., were not heard of in all the land. The du-
ties of man were thought of, and the naturally undis-
turbed mechanism of man not interrupted by sorrow,
cares, or materia medica, went on harmoniously. Damp
atmospheres, and freezing snows, empurpled the cheeks
of our fore-fathers; but never reached the refinement
of inflaming bronchial tubes; they were as ignorant
as Adam, before informed by his wife, of bronchial
tubes, or troches for bronchitis.
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But, alas! the nineteenth century would load with
But, alas! the nineteenth century would load with
disease the very airs of paradise, and hunt mankind
down with airs in dress and airs of heaven. Metaphys-
ics hold mind the only friend or foe to man, and Truth
destroying error, the great panacea. It is important to
learn the exact belief that has produced disease, if you
would destroy it, unless your spirituality is equal to this
by holding a balance over matter; when you destroy
disease in mind it disappears on the body. A surgeon
must hit the ulcer with his lance to cure it, unless
he is able to destroy it without the sharp point; and
you must reach the mind by argument, unless the Spirit
reaches it without speech. A strongly material, bigoted,
or opinionated man yields more slowly to scientific
treatment than the more liberal and logical mind, but
the spiritual is more easily affected than either.
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Do you say, let an M. D. attend to the real malady,
Do you say, let an M. D. attend to the real malady,
and the metaphysician take up hysteria and imaginary
disease? But facts are stubborn things; we have found
in healing the sick on the Principle herein stated, severe
and acute disease yields more readily than the chronic.
This method of healing is far from temporizing with
disease, or unsafe in cases difficult and dangerous;
ignorance of science and the force of education, are
all that would lead to such a conclusion. A physician
who understands the science of being is the only one I
would venture to conduct a dangerous or difficult case.
We had tried all others and failed to recover before
learning this "more excellent way." Many great and
good men have passed away within the two years we
have been writing this work, that might have been
saved by the science of which it treats.
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An accident once happening to us, would have proved
An accident once happening to us, would have proved
fatal, but for the Truth herein stated, that saved us;
hundreds of cases given over by materia medica and
the minor hosts of Esculapius, we have since cured by
it. Had we depended on materia medica, or used the
means ordinarily employed in such emergencies, or
allowed the weight of our former beliefs regarding struc-
tural and organic life, or the opinions expressed regard-
ing the fatal nature of our case, to balance the scale of
mind at the time the accident occurred, we should
have passed away, or survived only to be a hopeless in-
valid and cripple. The Principle of science herein
explained, saved us, and the triumph we achieved
over our body at that time made us stronger in the
Truth, and consequently more healthy ever since. A
supreme moment, more than ordinary circumstances,