Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1911 — A Physician Who Has No Use for Medicine. [ARTICLE]

A Physician Who Has No Use for Medicine.

An authoritative physician and writer made this flat declaration: “It should be distinctly understood that medicines never cure disease, with one possible exception—when, for instance, a poison in the blood is combated by another poison as an antidote. Four-fifths of disease is the legitimate outcome of eating and drinking; the human body is a factor of poisons; to fill the blood and produce disease. “There is only one cure for disease, pure food, pure air and pure water. These are the only agencies that make pure blood. The only agent that cures disease is pure blood. Pure blood Is not made by medicines of any kind. In general, it may be said that medicines act just as so much poison when taken into the human body. “Even physicians have deluded themselves into a belief in the curative action of drugs. The superstition of medicine or belief that medicines cure disease is a relic of what may be called the dark ages, extending back one thousand years B. C."