“Like Faust, such sufferers study day and night the opinions 
of learned doctors and follow their prescriptions with ardent 
zeal. The more they study, the more doctors they consult, the 
more rapidly does strength fail them, until at length they realize 
that, in spite of all their lore, they are only ‘poor fools, no wiser 
than before/ 
“For more than two thousand years it has been as it is to a 
great extent today; the physician prescribed to the best of his 
knowledge, medicines compounded according to certain rules 
taught in the schools. 
“Here we have at once the fatal mistake. 
“Instead of studying nature and the laws of nature, instead 
of using natural means to heal disease, they administer deadly 
poisons to suffering humanity, poisons, which we doubt not may 
be able to allay pain or to temporarily suppress—the symptoms 
or effect of disease; but they will never remove the cause, 
which alone may rightly be called healing. 
“The drugs prescribed by thousands of physicians today, 
with but a casual acquaintance with their action, are bound by 
their nature to produce evils far worse than the disease. 
“To cite an instance:— 
“Physicians prescribe creosote in cases of consumption to 
stop the expectoration of blood. 
“Creosote will do this, and may suppress the cough, as well 
as accompanying pain; but it will never heal consumption nor 
destroy or remove the cause of this deadliest of diseases. 
“On the contrary, it inevitably produces laryngeal phthisis 
after a very short time.—It destroys the head of the windpipe 
and the patient dies in consequence of the destruction of one of 
the most important organs of the body. 
“In most instances the physician is either unaware or un¬ 
troubled by these facts.—He follows those old rules of healing, 
laid down by human ‘science/ not by nature. 
“His courage is called ‘audacity’ by those who have not lost 
all feeling for humanity. 
“Meanwhile, those who consider medical science from simply 
a business standpoint only, are very quick to pronounce judgment 
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