The evolution of physiological and chemical science in a natural system of medicine, vs. the theories and fallacies of popular medicine / J.D. Stillman.

  • Stillman, J. D. (John D.)
Date:
1893
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    tions. They are in general irritating poisons in large doses, but they are graduated in medicinal use to the general repellant poiuer of fiature to so resist iliem as not to produce severe poisonous effects, but the repellent forces of nature vary so mucli in disease, that a lamentable advantage is often in favor of their poisonous effects when the resisting instincts of vital preservative organic power are so feeble as to cause them to surrender to the poisonous death dealing power specifics possess, which make them so often unavailing, unre- liable and dangerous, to demonstrate the evils of specific medi- cation to which the medical profession are wedded. The Rate of all Vital Forces is proportionate to the perfection of the attenuative changes of nutrient matter, and the free exit of morbid products and are correlative and fixed by natural organic conditions, consequently whatever remedy interferes with the normal rate of one organic activity disturbs the equilibrum of all other natural forces the same as disease. Narcotics and nervines not only tamper with the blood the nervous fluid and through both with the general pro- cess of life, but they stealthily creep up to the throne of hfe, the brain, and put an illegal injunction upon its governing powers, they are seditious enemies and are treasonable in their attempts to usurp the government of the forces of Hfe. The hypodermic use of narcotic poisons makes possible a bold assault of these reckless enemies of life as they engage in a hand to hand en- counter in strong holds within the walls of the ramparts of life the heart and brain. The direct introduction of either foreign or poisonous agents into the blood is a reckless compounding of a felony against the rights of industrious life. This modern infatuation is, however, likely to continue because it is a quick way of silencing the cry of injured nerves through pain, but its secondary results will be continuedly apparent in the shattered nervous wrecks, heart and brain failures, as they often produce suicidal insanity and sudden deaths. These heart and brain