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doctor could not get a practice who did not pander to this 
depraved taste. In view of the facts we have written con- 
cerning the human body, animated by the spirit of life from 
God, it will be admitted, as it has been in the past, that it is 
one of the most wonderful of His works. We cannot con- 
ceive how some men professing to be scientists can believe 
that blind chance could have produced such a wonderful 
mechanism, endued with such self-repairing power. These 
facts ought to make us careful to live in harmony with not 
only nature’s laws, as they are called, but also the revealed 
will of God, who desires that his creatures should be happy, 
and so live in the flesh that if we do go the way of all the 
earth,* we may die in the sure and certain hope of a 
resurrection into eternal life. The thought occurs to us 
that no anatomist will ever describe the future immortal 
body, for it will be deathless, therefore scalpels, knives and 
‘saws will never divide it, as they have this mortal form. 
SAMUEL THOMPSON’S THEORY OF 
LIFE, MOTION, &c. 
As a rule rational treatment is based on rational theory, 
but as all rules have exceptions, so has this one. For 
instance, a doctor will often prescribe an article without 
knowing how it works. This is called empirical prescribing. 
Rational prescribing is when an agent is administered that is 
known to affect some organ, fluid, or part of the system in a 
given way. That true medical genius named above did not 
rest satisiied with guess-work. He therefore sought out the 
reasons for disease and different actions of herbs on the system, 
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* There are some who will not go this way. (See I. Corinthians xv. 51.) 
