THE TRAINING OF FAKMEKS 



2. SOME OF THE REMEDIES FOR HEALTH 

 CONDITIONS 



My first observation is that it is natural 

 to be healthy. I do not know whether most 

 of us have discovered this fact. We have 

 put the emphasis on disease. We have 

 thought sickness to be a kind of judgment 

 or punishment, as if we were all doing 

 penance in this world. When we meet a 

 friend, we say "I hope you are well:" the 

 presumption is that he is sick, but we still 

 have hopes that he may have escaped. We 

 must overcome the notion that disease is an 

 act of Providence. There seems to be a 

 widespread belief that the organs of the 

 human body tend to go wrong and that 

 therefore they must be regulated; so we 

 have liver regulators, stomach regulators, 

 nerve regulators, and others. We are begin- 

 ning to place the emphasis on sanitation 

 rather than on disease. It is natural for a 

 fruit-tree to bear : it is our business to re- 

 move the obstacles to its bearing; it is 

 natural for human beings to be healthy : it 

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