Need of Education in Health Principles

Many of the popular nostrums called patent medicines

, and even some of the drugs dispensed by physicians, act a part in laying the foundation of the liquor habit, the opium habit, the morphine habit, that are so terrible a curse to society.The only hope of better things is in the education of the people in right principles.He recognizes his responsibility, not only to the sick who are under his direct care, but also to the community in which he lives.

Their chief anxiety is to rid themselves of pain and inconvenience.Education in health principles was never more needed than now.The poisons contained in many so-called remedies create habits and appetites that mean ruin to both soul and body.By right instruction he can do much to correct evils that are working untold harm.But the greater number know better than they do.He stands as a guardian of both physical and moral health.The physician has many opportunities both of imparting a knowledge of health principles and of showing the importance of putting them in practice.By the use of poisonous drugs, many bring upon themselves lifelong illness, and many lives are lost that might be saved by the use of natural methods of healing.When attacked by disease, many will not take the trouble to search out the cause of their illness.It demands the attention of all who have at heart the well-being of their fellow men.The true physician is an educator.It is true that they sometimes afford present relief, and the patient appears to recover as the result of their use; this is because nature has sufficient vital force to expel the poison and to correct the conditions that caused the disease.So they resort to patent nostrums, of whose real properties they know little, or they apply to a physician for some remedy to counteract the result of their misdoing, but with no thought of making a change in their unhealthful habits.Our artificial civilization is encouraging evils destructive of sound principles.Many transgress the laws of health through ignorance, and they need instruction.Let physicians teach the people that restorative power is not in drugs, but in nature.People need to be taught that drugs do not cure disease.Intemperance and crime, disease and wretchedness, are everywhere.But in most cases the drug only changes the form and location of the disease.

Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected.Health is recovered in spite of the drug.Custom and fashion are at war with nature.Disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health.The practices they enjoin, and the indulgences they foster, are steadily lessening both physical and mental strength, and bringing upon the race an intolerable burden.Thus the evil continues.Notwithstanding the wonderful progress in so many lines relating to the comforts and conveniences of life, even to sanitary matters and to the treatment of disease, the decline in physical vigor and power of endurance is alarming.A practice that is laying the foundation of a vast amount of disease and of even more serious evils is the free use of poisonous drugs.They need to be impressed with the importance of making their knowledge a guide of life.Often the effect of the poison seems to be overcome for a time, but the results remain in the system and work great harm at some later period.If immediate benefit is not realized, another medicine is tried, and then another.Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system.In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained.It is his endeavor not only to teach right methods for the treatment of the sick, but to encourage right habits of living, and to spread a knowledge of right principles.

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Need of Education in Health Principles

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