A new health era / by William Howard Hay.

  • William Howard Hay
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: A new health era / by William Howard Hay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or whatever you wish to call it, expressing this manufacture and retention of these irritating acid end-products. The science of medicine takes no cognizance of this accumu- lation till disease, that is, till definite pathology has developed, and then the condition is submitted to the most intimate study. This is merely locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen, a rather feeble gesture, not in any sense constiuctive treatment. Yet this is the only sort of treatment considered orthodox by the medical profession, and, whether the answer is medical or surgical, it must be evident to anyone who can reason that such treatment has little value, for it is dealing with effects, not in any sense with causes. Medicine has grown into a major so-called science, and only because humanity has continued to build up this increas- ingly toxic state that furnishes continually much clinical msttc rial So medicine is really a creation of a class set aside for treatment of human ills, not for prevention of these, (and medicine begins just where individual care ceases) for the pur pose of patching the machine that has been ruined by the mis- treatment of the average human, either from misunderstanding of body needs or from a carelessness as to the results. We need not blame medicine for this condition, as the cause is individual, chargeable to the victim himself. Thus medicine has flourished in all times from the ignor- ance and inattention of the individual in matters of his own health and efficiency; and the continued need for repairing the damage we do to our bodies will persist till we learn to accept our individual responsibilities in the matter of keeping our- selves as well as we should and as well as we can oe, if we understand better the self-created causes of our many ills. As the medical fraternity has increased in numbers, so also has their training become more and more involved and diver- sified, till now to be a doctor of medicine requires eight years [20]
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