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Beliefs illusive
The tobacco-user, eating or smoking poison for half a century, sometimes tells you that the weed preserves his health, but does this make it so? Does his assertion prove the use of tobacco to be a salu- brious habit, and man to be the better for it? Such in- stances only prove the illusive physical effect of a false belief, confirming the Scriptural conclusion concerning a man, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he."
The movement-cure - pinching and pounding the poor body, to make it sensibly well when it ought to be in- sensibly so - is another medical mistake, resulting from the common notion that health depends on inert matter
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