"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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Early Florida Medicine

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the chill, not being the disease itself, but merely signals
thrown out by the conservative power to show that it is
battling for our good." Is not then every does of poison
which is given under the pretence of medicine, directly aiming at the destruction of this vital principle, which our
all wise Creator has endowed us with for our preservation? Does not the doctor join issue with the disease for our destruction: and is not the fatality attendant on such
practice, a plain evidence that it is contrary to nature.
Ask the bereaved mourners who throng our streets, they can tell, although their bleeding hearts may not all the expression. In usual health a few days or weeks ago, was taken with
what we thought a slight illness, run down very fast under
Dr -s treatment, and is now covered in the silent grave!!

Testimony of some Eminent men in regard
to the Poisoning Practice.
"Drugs do not cure disease, disease is always cured
by the vis medicatrix naturae."
"A medicins which enter the circulation, poisons
the blood, in the same manner as do poisons that
produce disease." Prof. Jos Smith. M.D.
"Mercury is the sheet anchor in fevers; but it is on

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