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Medical works objectionable

Treatises on anatomy, physiology, and health, sustained by what is termed material law, are the pro- moters of sickness and disease. It should not be proverbial, that so long as you read medical works you will be sick.

The sedulous matron - studying her Jahr with homoe- opathic pellet and powder in hand, ready to put you into a sweat, to move the bowels, or to produce sleep - is unwittingly sowing the seeds of reliance on matter, and her household may erelong reap the effect of this mistake.

Descriptions of disease given by physicians and adver-

tisements of quackery are both prolific sources of sickness. As mortal mind is the husbandman of error, it should be taught to do the body no harm and to uproot its false sowing.