Chapter VII - Physiology
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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,
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tests this science insomuch as it proves more clearly
tests this science insomuch as it proves more clearly
than others the superiority of mind over matter, drugs,
and material law. Ignorance of the relations of mind
to the body, and the superiority of the former over the
latter, are all that occasion skepticism regarding mental
pathology.
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A physician said to us, "I know mind affects the
A physician said to us, "I know mind affects the
body somewhat, and advise my patients to be hopeful
and take less medicine, but there are organic diseases
that mind cannot affect." To this we replied, it is poor
logic that facts contradict; we have many cases on
record of cures wrought through mind alone, that ma-
teria medica had failed to reach. You admit death has
occurred from fright, and this proves every function of
the body controlled by mind; death covers the whole
ground, it stops the action of brain, heart, blood, lungs,
etc., and if all organic action can be stopped by mind,
it is controlled by it, and can be cured also. Mind
produces what is termed organic disease, as directly as
it does hysteria, and cures it as readily; the demonstra-
tion we have given of this removes the question beyond
cavil. We predicate this science on proof, and have
not more evidence of our existence, than we have gained
of the utter control mind holds over the entire organi-
zation and functions of the body. Through mind alone
we have cured organic disease of the lungs, liver, heart,
brains, bones, muscles, etc., that defied physiology and
materia medica to heal.
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But to govern the body harmoniously with mind, you
But to govern the body harmoniously with mind, you
must understand the science of being predicated on
mind and not matter. Few will admit that what is
termed involuntary organic action is governed alone by