"Ode to Health;

Date: 1896-1903

Series: N2009-5 - Civil War veterans medical journal, 1896-1903.

Civil War Veterans Medical Journal.

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administer poison for medicine, than he would cut
the juglar vein, in pretence of curing a patient. We read
that "God made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions. (Oct. 7. 29.) No doubt the administration of
poison for medicine is one of the inventions, and is one of the evidences of poor fallen depraved humanity. Surely
"an enemy hath done this."
I am not altogether in favor of the "let alone" system; and
yet I believe, it would be a thousand times better to let nature "alone," than to give poison under any circumstances.
But we are told that.
"There is Poison in Everything we Eat."
If so is there not already enough in it without adding
thereto, or do we think that Infinite Wisdom has
made a misstake in this matter, and that we have made the wonderful discovery that a little poison added ocasionally
will make up the deficiency. Well in what from shall we
have it? In alcohol, in lager, or in the little white pills,
or powders? Are there any of these in pure sound grain,
before it undergoes the rotting and decomposing process of the distiller, the brewer, or some other process by which the nature of those God given productions, are changed from a state
of health and purity, into a state of rottennes, and poison?

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