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(Mythology and materia medica)
It is recorded that the profession of medicine originated
in idolatry with pagan priests, who besought the gods to
heal the sick and designated Apollo as "the god
of medicine." He was supposed to have dictated
the first prescription, according to the
"History of Four Thousand Years of Medicine." It is
here noticeable that Apollo was also regarded as the sender
of disease, "the god of pestilence." Hippocrates turned
from image-gods to vegetable and mineral drugs for
healing. This was deemed progress in medicine; but
what we need is the truth which heals both mind and
body. The future history of material medicine may
correspond with that of its material god, Apollo, who was
banished from heaven and endured great sufferings
upon earth.
(Footsteps to intemperance)
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes
for the dignity and potency of divine Mind and its efficacy
to heal. It is pitiful to lead men into
temptation through the byways of this wilderness
world, - to victimize the race with intoxicating
prescriptions for the sick, until mortal mind acquires an
educated appetite for strong drink, and men and women
become loathsome sots.
(Advancing degrees)
Evidences of progress and of spiritualization greet us
on every hand. Drug-systems are quitting their hold on
matter and so letting in matter's higher stratum,
mortal mind. Homoeopathy, a step in
advance of allopathy, is doing this. Matter is going out
of medicine; and mortal mind, of a higher attenuation
than the drug, is governing the pellet.
(Effects of fear)
A woman in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, was
etherized and died in consequence, although her physicians
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