Article June 1, 1899 Issue

Enteric and its Cure

X. Y.

In an article on "Enteric" on Saturday we stated that "so far medicine has failed, honorably failed no doubt; but that the failure is complete there can be no two opinions." In the same article we advocated a trial of serum inoculation now being proposed by Surgeon-General Taylor. We give admission to the remarks of a contributor, on the subject : —

In the days of the ancient Roman empire, when the world was sick unto death of the moral diseases engendered by corrupt universal domination, a Great Teacher arose who professed to cure all disease. His most striking cures were effected upon those who were epileptics or violently insane, or, as his narrators described it, "possessed with a devil" or demon.

Times change and diseases change with them; we still have epilepsy and violent madness with us as a reminder that what has been may be again, but our thoughts now run, at least in India, upon plague, cholera, and enteric, a list sufficient for our purpose, though it might be almost indefinitely extended. Enteric is a typical European disease. It seizes hold upon unseasoned officers and privates, upon those who still have the "fear of the climate" upon them. It is mostly a man's disease. He at last has an attack of country fever. The conversation at mess and in the barrack-room is always upon enteric and cholera. He has always feared enteric since the day he landed in India. Now that he is on his back his thoughts buzz, his brain teems with enteric. "I shall get Enteric! Enteric!! Enteric!!!" His medical advisers and nurses, with their long faces and clattering heels, do not help him. He will get Enteric! Enteric!! Enteric!!! The evil thought dominates him day by day, till within a fortnight the dreaded disease makes its appearance. The doctor feels a professional satisfaction in being able to assure him that he has got Enteric, and so his own thoughts of evil and all those daily in attendance, find their full fruition, and after weeks of struggle he dies, the victim of evil imaginings. A brave man on the field of battle, he has not learned to conquer his thoughts, to compel them into a healthful channel. Those about him, dominated by their methods of material cure, do not and cannot help him. He is helpless so long as he fails to realize that "a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." His cure will come; disease will diminish and become nonexistent, when he learns to recognize the Truth as taught by the Master. The appreciation of Truth is a most perfect method of cure when one is laid upon a bed of sickness and the thoughts need to be compelled into sensible courses. "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."

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