What better than serum? / for copies, write to H.O. Haughton.

  • Haughton, H. O.
Date:
[1903?]
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Credit: What better than serum? / for copies, write to H.O. Haughton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    exi], betokening incipient weakness in spine, lungs or digestion, and promptly discovered, Nature's just claim is only dismissed on pledge of bettered conditions. Would that beneath the keen eye of such diagnostician could be placed every child in our land, making it that oculists, dentists, and all other specialists, could by such timely fore- warning be easily dispensed with. The consistent vegetarian will not eat meat. The consistent Temperance worker touches not, handles not—only in rarest exception would duty direct otherwise. But we anti-vivisectionists ? Let us be diligent to hasten the hour when we also may wear upon our bi'east-plate the rare jewel of consistency lest our ready acceptance of ill-gotten gain, increasing demand and supply, shall condemn to surgical technique or drug-testing torment the living material we strive to protect. The Laboratory system, spending its millions in its secret star-chamber endeavoring to find the germs of disease, manufacturing and testing disease-made corruption, too absorbed in its search for the microbe to note predisposing conditions which invite germ propa- gation ! The accepted methods: tonics to brace us (an inflated basis) sleeping draughts for insomnia, deadening narcotics to relieve us of pain ; combating one threatened disease by imposing another; for overtaxed nerves (needing rest and repair) a stimulant ordered; old age prematurely invited, intestinal disturbance calling for knife, €olds I'unning into pneumonia, heart failure and death quite often the victor. Nine hundred persons in a million, only, it is said, die of old age. The surgical parlance which pronounces operations success- ful unless death ensues omits to mention the shattered conditions often remaining from anaesthetics and shock, which afterwards follow the patient for years and sometimes for life. Thank God for the speedy relief of the humauer Science. Nature Cure reverently asking, ' How best to take out of our path the problems which vex us. How best to maintain a reserve vital power with physical stamina unhindered, whose motto is : Not more poison but less ; not more impurity but to cast out that already existing ; not added disease or drug injury but to loosen the grip of that which alread}'- encumbers—to preserve and not to destroy !' Nature Cure has on honorable record many remarkable cures made on despair-stricken invalids on whom medicine and surgery had in vain expended their best endeavor. It includes all healing