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The time is not far off when the bottles on the doctors’ 
shelves will be reduced to a very small number, and 
resort will be had to simple living, suitable diet, plenty 
of sun and fresh air. I look forward to the time when 
people will leave off the extraordinary habit of taking 
medicine.*—S1rk FREDERICK TREVES. 
CHAPTER XXIX. 
THE PRODUCE OF THE HONEY-BEE. 
THE USES OF HONEY IN HEALTH AND 
DISEASE.—NOTES ON GENERAL HEALTH. 
MY is a sweet which pleases the palate of the 
multitude; but instead of being regarded solely as 
a luxury, it should be the producers’ aim to teach 
the public to use it as a daily necessity; and also as a 
food-medicine that restores health where drugs will fail. 
There are, of course, various medicinal substances, apart 
from injurious drugs, which act beneficially in building up 
healthy tissue or living cells, and honey is one of the most 
valuable of these.t 
Potassium salts appear to be not only a helpful, but an 
absolutely necessary item in building, or in completing the 
combination necessary in building up the vital cells and 
* The Author has taken no medicine for fifty years, but while 
deploring the reckless use of injurious drugs, he is always anxious 
to acknowledge any well-proven efficient medicinal medium. 
+ In this connection may be mentioned the distressing malady 
known as Goitre, which is most successfully treated by~ the 
application of an extract from the thyroid gland of the sheep ; 
treatment so simple that it should always be used in preference 
to Iodine and similar noxious drugs. 
