Article July 26, 1900 Issue

A Physician's Views

The following extract from a paper by H. S. Brewer, M. D., Chicago, Ill., published in The Alkaloidal Clinic, August, 1899, is interesting as showing the change of thought in the medical profession.

The mind is the natural protector of the body. Every thought tends to reproduce itself, and ghastly mental pictures of disease are reproduced in the body. The body can be changed from a diseased to a healthy condition through the operation of "interior forces." This is the natural method. Drugs are artificial agencies. The only thing that any drug can do is to remove obstructions that the life forces may then have a better chance to work. The real healing process must be performed by the operation of the life forces within.

For generations these important influences that play upon nutrition have remained an unconsidered element in the medical thought of the day. The most exclusive drift of its studies is directed to the action of matter over mind. This has seriously interfered with the evolutionary tendencies of the doctors themselves; consequently the "psychic" factor in medical practice is still rudimentary. However, the twentieth century is upon us, and we who live will experience great changes.

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